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Eno family letters, October 1832-October 1834

1834-01-26 Page 1

Pen  Yan January 26 1834
Mt Dear Father,
                   I have just received a letter from William which had been about three weeks on the road & from the purport of which I infer that no letter has been 
received from me since I left the Plains.  I wrote a few days after I had got home to William by mail informing him of my reaching here in safety &c and about the middle of November I wrote a long letter to you giving a statement of two cases in which I felt a deep interest, and which were to be tried at the December circuit. I sent this letter by a gentleman from Sharon who said he was acquainted with you & would leave it at the Plains. -- I hope you will acquit me of negligence for believe I have not felt so hurt this many a day as when I recd Williams letter & found none had been received from me. I left home I believe on Saturday & arrived here on Tuesday morning in good health & came from Albany by the Stage all the way, since which time I have enjoyed by usual state of health -- being at present -- a little fleshier than common altho I take considerable exercise, I now weigh
175 lbs. -- In relation to bsuiness it has been as good as I could reasonably expect. -- we are just through with our
Court of Common Pleas which sat for the two last weeks.  I did not have as much business at this Court as I did at the September Court. -- two of my causes were put over to the June Court, & I had but two certiorari causes which were argued -- a motion to amend a return of a Justice which was granted & a motion to set aside a default in an action of replevin -- which the Court also granted. This was a case of Whitting vs Thompson. The declaration was for the wrongful taking & detention of property. The property had not been replevied & delivered to the [Plaintiff?]  & the declaration did not allege that Deff continued to detain [Illeg] 
I suffered the [Plaintiff?] to go an enter a default & then made a motion to set it aside --- Staunton Herrick who has lived here about a year & a half was tried on an
indictment for obtaining a mans signature to a note under false pretences. -- and was found guilty. I think the verdict was wrong and he has carried it up by bill of exceptions to the Supreme Court - this Herrick is the son of Ephraim Herrick & has already spent a fortune. I assisted him on his trial  & have written

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Pen Yan January 26 1834 Mt Dear Father, I have just received a letter from William which had been about three weeks on the road & from the purport of which I infer that no letter has been received from me since I left the Plains. I wrote a few days after I had got home to William by mail informing him of my reaching here in safety &c and about the middle of November I wrote a long letter to you giving a statement of two cases in which I felt a deep interest, and which were to be tried at the December circuit. I sent this letter by a gentleman from Sharon who said he was acquainted with you & would leave it at the Plains. -- I hope you will acquit me of negligence for believe I have not felt so hurt this many a day as when I recd Williams letter & found none had been received from me. I left home I believe on Saturday & arrived here on Tuesday morning in good health & came from Albany by the Stage all the way, since which time I have enjoyed by usual state of health -- being at present -- a little fleshier than common altho I take considerable exercise, I now weigh 175 lbs. -- In relation to bsuiness it has been as good as I could reasonably expect. -- we are just through with our Court of Common Pleas which sat for the two last weeks. I did not have as much business at this Court as I did at the September Court. -- two of my causes were put over to the June Court, & I had but two certiorari causes which were argued -- a motion to amend a return of a Justice which was granted & a motion to set aside a default in an action of replevin -- which the Court also granted. This was a case of Whitting vs Thompson. The declaration was for the wrongful taking & detention of property. The property had not been replevied & delivered to the [Plaintiff?] & the declaration did not allege that Deff continued to detain [Illeg] I suffered the [Plaintiff?] to go an enter a default & then made a motion to set it aside --- Staunton Herrick who has lived here about a year & a half was tried on an indictment for obtaining a mans signature to a note under false pretences. -- and was found guilty. I think the verdict was wrong and he has carried it up by bill of exceptions to the Supreme Court - this Herrick is the son of Ephraim Herrick & has already spent a fortune. I assisted him on his trial & have written