Lybrook/Lybrook Letter, 1834 - Giles Co. VA
Lybrook Family Letters
in Special Collections at Alderman Library,
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Letter from Nancy Lybrook of Giles County, Virginia,
to her brother Henley C. Lybrook in Cassapolis, Cass County, Michigan Territory.
16 January 1834
Giles county Virginia Janry. 16th 1834
Brother Henley
Sir I have the satisfaction of telling you by this epistle that your letter of the first of December last was received and
with satisfaction to hear that you have recovered from the spel of sickness that your letter tells us you laboured under
for something like a fortnight but am much affected from what appears to be the condition of your country, as it does
appear to not be healthfull we are grateful that benign providence to hear that sister Catherine, and family together
with her husband has escaped the disease that seems to invade your countryhoping that they together with yourself
may for the futer be healthy. We are all well at this time and our country appear to be as health for some time as it
has been since my recollection you say that you are engaged in the mercantile business for some Gentlemen in that
part of the world and is getting $10 pur month which I think to be good wages try and cultivate their friendship by
discharging your duty punctually towards them as well as to your customersand it may be the means of further
agrandisement, you say you will come to virginia and spend one summer season with us. that time I shall anticipate
with pleasure so that you do not sacrifice too much of your business you say that you are not able to send us any
account of brother John. I wish to have the honour of giving you some intelligence as to his movements and location,
he is living in carrel county in the state of indiannaabout 20 miles above William Burksthe county seat is called
Delphy he has settled on a small creed about four miles from the wabash river and him and family has had good
health ever since they have been therewe received a letter from him dated the 5th of October last by the hand of
Mr. Thomas Burk who in company with his father was in our country five or six weeks last fall. I am happy to hear
of the well doing of Nancy and her family. You wish to know something about the revelation of the night of the
12th of November lastno answer to that. I can say that such a meteoric phenomenon was never before noticed in
this part of the country and was seen by a number of the inhabitants when first noticed it was between midnight and
day on the 13th they seemed as if they took their flight from the zenith and fell all round and had the appearance of
starsthe size was of various dimentions and continued untill day seemed to hide their luster. You want to know
whether Philip has dischare the debt you owed to Sally. He has not, but says he considers it his debt and not yours as
he mad that arrangement with you before you left our countryyour benedictions to the neighbors has been
complyed with as the affairs of the country they are nearly as they were when you left it. Must be expected that the
lapse of four years will produce some revlations we have all been well since last spring and the people in the country
are generally well. We have lost one person of note in the month of October last. David French, our clerk, and Rufus
is elected to the officehe suffered about 10 or 12 days with a very malignant and excrusiating pain before it
determined his lifethere is a reoport that John Dukes jur. Is about to marry with a daughter of James White of doe
creek, Josiah Lumpkins and Evelina lives quite agreeable togetherfather is still about the same thing in every
respect as he was when you left the country. Mother is more weakly and infirm which of course must be expeced
from her long lingering situationfather has sold off more of his land to David Williams which sail includes the big
field and one half of the spring down the hollowthe intervening of distance between us makes it inconvenient to
communicate all the minute occurances in the neighborhoodthat you must excuse this limited narrative and shall
only say that we have had a verry dry season last summer and short cropsand no fall of consequence untill some
time in december at which time the snow commenced falling on Friday night and fell ontill it was about 2 feet deep
in our neighborhood which was the greatest snow I ever seenit was said to be deeper up sinking creek. I want you
to write as soon as convenient and let us know how the winter has been in your countryI am c[?] to say to you
that we all must be remembered to our relatives and friends in that part of the worldand tell them we would be glad
to see them if it was in our power and as it is not they must be satisfied with our best respectsand hope that they all
may continue to do well and support a good caractor through life--as I have nothing more on my mind at presant to
communicate I must take my leaf after subscribing myself your most affectionate sister through life
Nancy Lybrook
Submitted by Melissa Smith Kennedy
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~msk5d/genealogy/Lybrook.html
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