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Bean family letters, 1845-1860
1853-07-07 Page 02
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moment that positively you must excuse my delinquency this time and I will try and do better in future I was very "welcome home" found Fathers family all very well Grandmother Capron is just alive her days are numbered on this Earth I fear Pa had a multiplicity of questions to ask all of which I answered to the best of my ability. Give me our own "beautiful Wisconsin" for all the lands of the east with all their many advantages t'will be but a short time that she will be behind and then there'll be none that can compete with her in any respect. I suppose I shall leave it for a period as dearly as I love it. In Silas last letter I learned he had fully made up his mind either to come for me or send Send, if I can find some competent and worthy person to go with If not he will come after me He wrote me he should expect to see me as soon as December However I probably shall not go till. January or February. I am very anxious to get another letter I suppose that will decide for me. I can hardly wait for the time to come You will say it is very foolish I suppose but I do not think so I have lived long enough in this way & it is not quite agreeable to me Don & Silas have bought a farm together of four hundred and Eighty acres have four horses one Yoke of oxen one cow & twenty one hogs, They intend stocking it, This fall, intend to put in Eighty acres of Barley There is a good log Cabin on it You will see they want a housekeeper, & I am the one if I live to get there do you know of any body that is going from there that would be suitable company for me if so write me Pa looks rather down in the mouth about it have they heard from Mrs [Fobes?] since she left N. York
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moment that positively you must excuse my delinquency this time and I will try and do better in future I was very "welcome home" found Fathers family all very well Grandmother Capron is just alive her days are numbered on this Earth I fear Pa had a multiplicity of questions to ask all of which I answered to the best of my ability. Give me our own "beautiful Wisconsin" for all the lands of the east with all their many advantages t'will be but a short time that she will be behind and then there'll be none that can compete with her in any respect. I suppose I shall leave it for a period as dearly as I love it. In Silas last letter I learned he had fully made up his mind either to come for me or send Send, if I can find some competent and worthy person to go with If not he will come after me He wrote me he should expect to see me as soon as December However I probably shall not go till. January or February. I am very anxious to get another letter I suppose that will decide for me. I can hardly wait for the time to come You will say it is very foolish I suppose but I do not think so I have lived long enough in this way & it is not quite agreeable to me Don & Silas have bought a farm together of four hundred and Eighty acres have four horses one Yoke of oxen one cow & twenty one hogs, They intend stocking it, This fall, intend to put in Eighty acres of Barley There is a good log Cabin on it You will see they want a housekeeper, & I am the one if I live to get there do you know of any body that is going from there that would be suitable company for me if so write me Pa looks rather down in the mouth about it have they heard from Mrs [Fobes?] since she left N. York
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