Letters, Rockbridge County, VA-- McClure

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Submitted by: Jim McCluer <repa@swbell.net>, 1997

                                "BACHELORS NUNNERY,
                                GREEN COUNTY, OHIO,  April 2, 1820.

        Mr. John McClure,

                Sir, after my best respects to you and yours, I drop you this
line to let you know that I am still able to kick yet and have been kicking
since I came home from Virginia.  I have had my health tolerable well
through somewhat unfortunate the last of February or the first of
March.  I had like to of got my leg broke by hawling shingle bolts in
the waggon and throwing the bolts out of the waggon I had like to of
threw myself out with one and to of broke my back.  I thought the
Bachelors Nunnery would soon come close for I thought I was to kill
myself.  But I have got able to kick again.  I have put up a large barn,
or at least it is 60  feet long by 25 wide and upward of 30 high, you
may call it what sise you please, I have to everthing redy to nail on
the shingels.  I want to put up a set of corn cribs as soon as I finish
my barn, I have got the logs cut and this will be the fourth building
that I have put up since I came home, or to the Bachelors Nunnery.  I
have and will have fifty or upwards acres of land opened and under fence
this summer.  I have had four hands working sinc last faul till last
weak.  I paid one of and sent him to work for his family, another went
to bed last Sunday evening as usual and was a corp by three o¹clock the
next morning, his wife says she knew nothing was the matter with him
till he was strugling his last.  Tell Jane that I am coming to hepl her
to eat that big cheese for I expect it will be a fat one and I am truly
fond of good things and sweet things and true things.  But sour things
and faulse things I bid them good night.  I suppose I might with
propriety if report is true say Betsy child what are you doing.  But I
say keep a kicken for the blackest day has not come yet.  I must leave
thiss off and give you a history of our markett.  Flour in Cincinnati is
$3, whisky 40 cents, rye 37 *, corn 25, wheat from 37 * to 50 cents,
bacon 6 * to 8 cents.  I was offered several hundred of bacon for 6 *
cents.  But I had no wife nor child to feed and in course I did not want
to buy.  I am yours with respect.               WM. L. BERRYHILL