To Mrs Mary F Jones Dear wife [1]
i seat my self to drop you afew
lines to state something about
our money wee hav put it in
the hands of mr Nabers to carery
it to Judg Mcguires to be left
thar mee an John an Wm has put
twenty dollars a peas in a leter &
staarted it home it is to start
to marrow sow i thought that
it wood bee the best
to send a leter by male to
you sow you would send to town
an get it it tis to bee left
in the hands of Judg Mcguirs
the most of the Coumpaney is
a senden thar money to th Judg
o my love this may bee the last
leter that you may get in a good
while if wee go to kantucky
if wee dew tha wont be as good
a chence to get leters as it tis now
but i will write ever chence i
can get an i now that you will do the
same
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O my loving wife i want you
to kiss my sweet litle
babe as often as he can bar
it tak him to meeten an turn
him hard to bee have himself
tho i now that you will do it
i want you to go to meeten
as often as you can an pray
for mee ever time you go tell
all of my friends to pray for
mee pray that i may get home
again but if i dont pray that
i may meete thim high up in
heven wher parten is now more
my ink spreds sow i dont now
whether you can read i or not
the paper is now acount
when this you see remember
mee tho many milds a part
wee may bee wright soon
as you get your money sow
i may now it good by till
i her from you a gane
Wm R Jones
to Mrs Mary F Jones