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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Halliday Jackson Correspondence 1799-1824

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New Garden 11th mo 6th 1802 Dear Parents


Thomas Hooper inform’d us this
evening he expected to set off for Philidelphia to
morrow, & I am wishing no oppertunity to pass
without satisteing you, wishes me to write
tho’ at present I feel very dull for the under-
takeing haveing just return’d from our Month
ly passover, where business was according to
Custom conducted in the usual slow way.
We din’d at Joseph Presstons and rode home
by the light of the moon where Dear little
Jacob was anxiously waiting to ease his
Mother of some of her pains about the Breast.

We all continue well as usual and the
little Boy grows finely and can travel from
place to place in his little employment pretty
rapidly tho’ has not yet ventured to try his
strength by walking alone.

Jane wrote two letters By D. Temple that
Begining of this week, and I wrote a few lines
By Caleb Pusey which probably you have not
yet received so that if our letters Do not become
burdensome to you it will be well. The
latter gives some account of the late purehose