Lybrook/Lybrook Letter, 1833 - Giles Co. VA
Lybrook Family Letters
in Special Collections at Alderman Library,
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Letter from Sally Lybrook of Giles County, Virginia,
to her brother Henley C. Lybrook in Cassapolis, Cass County, Michigan Territory.
21 June 1833.
Giles County State of Virginia 21 June 1833
Dear brother
God has been pleased to allot me the fortune of [?] tolerable good health for which I must ever be than-ful for we
recieved your letter dated 12 October 1832 and was truly happy to hear that you was blessed with so much good luck
as to escape the Indian war and that peace smiles over that part of the Country again and I also hope for your health,
prosperities and happinessses in life. Mother has had two spells of sickness through this last winter and spring the
spell that she had in the winter it was thought to be caused by a ride she took to Pearisburg. Me and little Carrington
[H.?] Lybrook went with her on Sunday to see an aunt Peggy Hall when she was lying very sick and on the
Wednesday night after she was taken with the pain in her side and on Saturday and Saturday night following she was
Extremely bad with it but on the same night she got a phial of batemans drops and made [?] of the greater part it and
it helpt her very much and the last spell was this Last Spring. She taken Very bad on the first april after night and
Continued on getting worse every day untill the 11 april and at that time wwe expected every minute would be her
Last, but on the same day on the evening we sent for David J. Chapman, Doctor and he Come and give her medicine
and from the time the Doctor first Came to attend on her She got better and mended on and got well. She was
Confined to her bed about the Space of 6 or 7 weeks that has been Longest and hardest Spell of Sickness that She has
ever had and it is the Same Complaint that has followed her form Some years and She is Still afflicted with a very
bad Cough which has followed her for a Long time and at this time it is Very distressing on her, but other ways She
has her health again as well as She generally has it. father has been Complainning Some through the winter and
Spring of the Complaint that has followed him for a good many years but him with all the rest of family are in good
health at this time. part of brother Philip Lybrooks family has been Soarly afflicted this Last Spring with a Complaint
that is Called the Scarlet fever, but they have all recovered and is in good health again. Josiah Lumkin and family are
well. Aunt Peggy Hall has had a very Severe Spell of Sickness. She was taken the friday before Last Christmas, and
She has been Confined to her bed a good part of the time ever Since and I believe at this time it is generally thought
that She will hardly ever recover and She has Lost her eyesight out of one of her eyes and She Can See Very Little
out of the other one. Samuel Parises wife departed this life 20 December 1832 adn has Left fore Children
behind her. William kile is also dead. father has Sold the big field that is joining David Williamses plantation to
David Williams for which he was to give him two hundred and thirty-six dollars in money and fencing the mountain
field and he has partly paid father up and father has paid the Johnstons and Jacob Snidow all that he was owing them
Captain Hale has Sold his farm to Philip Lybrook and he intends moving but I do not know where he intends moving
two. There has Several weddings taken place in Giles Some time back and one of them the worthy Ollivea Johnston.
She was married the 12 march Last to a man by the name of Golassby and you stated in your letter that uncle
Henry Lybrook and a most all of his family had had a Sour attack of the ague and fever and also that Sally Ritter and
her family was afflicted w/ with the Same Fever for which I was Very Sorry to hear of their afflictions, but I am in
great hopes that they have all recovered and is restored to health again and I wish Catharine Thomas Burk and Nancy
Lybrook if they Can make it Convenient to Come to Virginia for to Come to Spend Some time with us and I Should
be Very happy to See there Little Children along with them and unless they and there children Should Come to giles
I hardly ever Expect to See any of them and you stated in your Letter that [?] did not expect to be at home till this
Summer if then for which I am Very Sorry to hear that you have prolonged your Stay So long away from home. but I
Still live in great [?] hopes that you will arrive at home this Summer. fathers Corn Crop Last Season was not good as
there was a part of it that was hurt very much by the frost but the Crop this Season Looks to be tollerable prosperous
and there is no person aas yet a Living with us. the black Children works the farm by themselves and I wish you to
write more frequently than you are in the habit of doing as it would be a great Satisfaction to us all to hear from you
and all the rest of our relations in that part of the world Nancy and Elizabeth Lybrook Sends there best respects to
you and all the rest of there friends in that Country and I Still remain your Sincere friend and Sister
father wrote a Letter to Mr Samuel Mars in the Latter part of Last fall or in the forepart of the winter but I do not
recollect which and he wishes to know whether he has ever recieved it or not
Henley C. Lybrook
Sally Lybrook
Submitted by Melissa Smith Kennedy
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~msk5d/genealogy/Lybrook.html
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