Mr D. C. Barrow
Sir I have 3 Sick at this time Joanake has had a very tite Spell of Neumony She is geting so that she can knock a Bout the house and Tilesay is inn the house knot very mutch the matter she says She is Better this morning Meck has Bin in the house 6 or 8 Days she is Gouing out this morning the Balance ar all well at this time I have Pact 61 and have 10 or 12 Ginned and I think there is Beteen 30 and 35 to Ginn inn the house yet and 5 or 6 to pick yet and may moore I maide about the Same amount of Corne I did last year and I let Mr Houghton have 140 Bushels of corne out of my last years crope and had Enought to doo the farme and had know oats to feeds on I have 169 out hogs and 75 hogs in the penn to cill and Some 35 or 40 of them ar redy to cill if I had Salt So if you pleas let me have it Soon as they ar Eating of Corne so fast I lost 3 of the hogs that I amde to cill Since you Was here But Maid out my 75 to Cill I have a Bail of Baggin and some 3 or 4 peaces Becide I have know Roafe at tall I will have to have Roafe Before I can pact again I have let James H. Glens have 8 tubes of corne I suppose it Will measeur Some 2 Bushels or moore I have Soud Some of my Wheat some of my Ground has Bin to Wet and is yet I havent knot Recieved know letter from you at Milledgvill and he has not Bin after any I Want get off Whar I am gouing as the man is Wanting of me and have Wrote to me to come as soon as I could get off there is know White person there this the 5 of Dec 1860
James A Sprattin