MONTGOMERY COUNTY, NC - MISC - Letter from John Chisholm to his 
				son Daniel Martin Chisholm
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This letter is copied from the original letter written by John Chisholm to his 
son, Daniel Martin Chisholm.
 
N.C.     Montgomery February 5th 1871
 
Mr. D.M. Chisholm
 
My Dear Son,   this leaves our all in good health, hoping it may find you 
engaging the saim blesing.  I recievd a leter and nuspaper and a leter when 
you was on your way to Moses and yourn and his leter dated 11th January and 
both your likeneses of whitch I was verry proud. I suppose you and Moses was 
glad when you met William and famely was well the 1th January    I was down to 
se him last fall, he had an exelent crop only the wet had drounded rite smart 
of it but I think he would make a plenty    he is on a verry good place   he 
can make more and give half where he is than he could hir and he is at no 
expence   Noah Thompson is gon to the factory at Rockingham    Martin Sedberry 
and Nancy Livingston is married  he is going to live where Thompson left  Jim 
Martin and Bel Nicholson is married    Mart Thompson and Sarah green is 
married   Mart McDaniel and Mirna White is married   Corn and what plenty 
above Troy at $1.00 per bushel   oats 40 to 50 cts.  porke $10.00 pe hundred 
Scarce    I have got a plenty of meat   I made 40 galans of Sirrup as good as 
ever was made   I shal have to by Corn but I dont mind it when I can get 2 
bushels of corn for one days worke   George Morris has aske for Adline Cook   
I hir she has got a leter said to be from you that you wil Cumback and have 
hir yet and She is waiting to hir from you.  I believe the leter was forged to 
brake up the match with hir and Morris for if you have got the pluck of a  
high minded Chisholm and  a proud Scotchman you wil Scarce the ide of 
Creapeing to a woman that Slited you as she did and give further Chance to 
throo it up to you all the days of your life   for my part I would se any 
woman that god ever put a gut in dead before I would take an insult from hir 
and then mary her    when you receive this you and Moses write me a long leter   
this wil doe for you both   I Should have been very glad to have sen Moses in 
hir this winter if his busynes would have admited   I wish you both the best 
of Succs  I remain your affectianate father til death.
 
                                           John Chisholm
 
Ma Macon wished to be remembered to you and sinds you hir love and best 
wishes.  Alexander Robinson and Mary McKinnis is Married.