Blowing Cave October the 19 1851
Mr D. C. Barrow
I a Gane take my pen to write youu a few lines to in form you of the affares her I have nothing Good to write onley we ar all a live I have had a Grandeel of sickness Sence I write to you Be fore and sum Bade Cases for a Bout 10 days thar has Bin one and avridge of thirteen hands laid up every day and at one time I had 21 hands in the Bed and tha all had the Same Complant tha had hy fevers But nun of them lay up more then five days But a Bout six of them tha laid up a Bout Eight and my one famaly thas Bin sick all sa I layd up my self a Bout 2 days though I was not con find to my Bed for I had to attend to them that was sick for at that time thar was 19 dowun a Gradeel of my one sickness was from [??] por teah But thank the Good lord we ar all a Bout to Git well and I am Glad of it for I have Bin in hot waughter for the last 15 days So you may judg that I have Got a long Slowly with my Bisness I have been a trying to pick Cotten un tell thirsday and it rain and I commence Gethering up Corn a Gane and a picking up pees and I shall finish halling in the hickry Hammoc a Tusday I have it all [??] puld [?] and I want to finish picking of pees I want to dow over one 100 Bushels as I have a [?] a nuff to fatten my meet the hickry hammoc and nengroun will a Bout fill the dubble brihes [?] [??] and I still have the trubles to Gether up to this time I have onley Got out 1,16465 lb pounds of Cotten and I hav 55 Bales packd and a Bout Eight Gind that is not packd I think I have out fully 75 Bages and a Bout 50 to pick out and if my folks will jest keep well I Can soon Git it out for I am a dowingg the Best I Can the Complant that we have had her I think it was the influenza from the Capp that follows it we have verry dry wether now and has Bin so for a Good while I Shall put myy fatning hogs in my pee field a wensday my stock all x looks well this is a Bout all I have to write a Bout I want to her from you much and I want to her a Bout my Shugar mill or what I must dow a Bout one and whether you have Got my letter or not as I Cant her from you thar has Bin and affull murder Clost By her

[2] it was dowun last Sunday night Richard Lewis you now him and a man By the name of Lunchford tha lived Clost in [?] and had a pulling out and as he past Lewis hous Lewis hide him self and shot him ded and his horse I dont think he was 10 feet from Lunchford when he shot as I was one of the Jurors and said the plase Had the man I may have seen such a site Be fore the man lay in his [??] Blood a Bout 24 auras Be for tha Colud Be a Cort [??] maid up and he left that night and his family is Be hind in Bad fix
I must Close the peple say I am a making up the Best [?] of eny man in the County I think it is hard to Beet thar has Bin two of the [??] Big planters af ter me to at tend to thar Bisness for them in this County But I told them I had in gaged my self to you one of them tryed me three times in one day to git me to attend to his Bisness and sead he [??] would speke for the next yer now I want you to write to me and let me her from you I shall Cllose when will you Be dowun Give my Re spect to all So I Re maine your frend far well
J. M. Harrison
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Mr. D. C. Barrow
Lexington
Oglethorpe County
Georgia