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Letter from Adeline Winn of Concord,Massachusetts

  Written to Mary Dulin (Jenners) Braden of Clinton Co.,Indiana


                               March 2, 1831



                  Concord Middlesex County, Mass. March 2d, 1831


My dear Cousin, -

I received your kind letter last month, and it was with great pleasure 
that I perused and reperused its contents. I was sorry to hear that dear 
Aunt was so unwell. I hope she will be able to write soon. We heard of 
your fathers death last Dec. Mother takes his death very hard. she loved 
him as she did her life. You wrote that he was willing and not afraid to 
die which I think must be a great consolation to you all. You also stated 
that he left a good name behind which I doubt not for I have often heard 
people speak very highly of him. All his friends would have been very much 
pleased to have seen him once more, but as it was not God's will that he 
should visit them again they must be still. Dear Grandmothers health is 
not very good she is very old and has had so much trouble that she has 
become as a child. She has buried her husband and all her children except 
my dear Mother and Phinehas Blood. I presume she would write if she was 
capable of writing for it pleases her very much to hear from you. Father 
and Mother are well and send their kind love to you all. They would be 
very happy indeed if you would visit them. I think if I could afford to 
visit you as well as you could afford to visit us I should not hesitate a 
moment but start right off. My oldest sister Mary was married to Samuel 
Forbush 7 years ago last November. he is a farmer they reside in Carlisle.
Sarah was married three years last Nov. to Reuben Farrar. They live in 
Townsend 21 miles from here.Mr. Farrar and Blood bought a large grist and 
saw mill there and they carry on the pencil business which is very 
profitable. My oldest brothers name is Abiel Jenners and Mother says he 
looks very much as your father did at his age he is a shoemaker and lives 
in Springfield about 80 miles from Concord. Dear sister Eliza Ann was 
married to Josiah Beard 4 years ago last Sept. he is a very amiable and 
worthy man. They lived in Saco Marine [page 2] she had been married about 
two years when she had a daughter and in 9 months after she died. We have 
reason to believe that she is now happy. She came home about two months 
before she died she said her health was not very good but hoped her journey 
would prove beneficial to her health. Soon after she returned she wrote me 
that she was much better but the next news we received was heavy, dear 
sister was dead. She had a kind and affectionate husband who sat by her 
bedside until she died. He tried every thing in his power to save her life 
he grudged neither cost nor labour [sic] but alas! it was all to no 
purpose, death called and she must obey. She left a bright and promising 
child which resembles her very much in its looks. Mother has it with her 
and thinks she could not part with her more willingly than she could with 
one of her own. Soon after sister died the factory was burnt in Saco and 
Mr. Beard lost considerable property by the fire I do not know exactly how 
much. He still remains a widower and lives in Waltham 9 miles from here he 
visits his little daughter often which appears to be a great comfort to 
him. Sister Abigail lives in Lowell Joseph and Alden and Lucy Janette live 
at home They all wish to be remembered to Aunt and all their Cousins. 
Please to tell Mr. Braden that I thank him for the kind letter he wrote me 
I did not answer it because I thought you would see the letter I wrote and 
if you cared about ever hearing from me again you would answer it, which 
I see you have and I thank you kindly for it, and I hope you will receive 
and answer this. Please to give my love to dear Aunt and all my Cousins 
and tell them we should be very happy to see them in Concord. I remain 
your loving Cousin


                                Adeline Winn






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