John Williams letter to parents 1779: Chester County, PA

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N.C Guilford Co. the 12th day of the second month,1779
 
Respected Father and Mother,
   These are to let you know that I and my children are in good health at 
present hoping these few lines may find you in the same state and enjoying peace 
and plenty. But I had the misfortune to bury my wife, who departed this life the 
12th day of the 12th month last. After a very short illness of the ague for 
about two months but had got brave and she took to swelling in her limbs and 
body and a shortness of breath so she could not lie down and being in great 
misery often expressing her great desire to be taken out of trouble in world and 
so left it going to sleep which has been a very great loss to me and my poor 
children for not being in a circumstance to keep the house which causes me to be 
separated from my children the one from the other which has been a sore trial to 
me here in this strange land being so far from my relatives and friends and 
living among good neighbors has been a great satisfaction to me in my troubles.
   I have to inform you that I received the letters from brother Isaiah which 
was a great satisfaction to me and as he wrote to me to send some account from 
him to his brother Daniel in Ga. I did it but having no account from him. I 
heard that he and his family now lives at Joseph Mattocks for the Indians have 
been so troublesome this fall that he could not stay at his place and all that 
lived on the new purchases was obligated to move off and Wm. Benson, John Benson 
and Robert Benson was killed by their cruel hands. And John Benson's daughter 
was taken captive and his son was struck down and left for dead, and scalped but 
is likely to recover. Not having much more to write but conclude with my kind 
love to you and all the rest of the family and friends.
                                   John Williams
N.B. I would be glad that thee would send account by your opportunity to let me 
know how you are for I spare no pains of writing to you when ever I have a 
chance of sending them.
                 This per favor of Abraham Griffith