Letter describing a variety of issues including personal news, land purchase, purchase of a factory in Pennsylvania, and personal rebuke. Discussion of mill on Black River
Transcribed:
M. A. Aldrich of
Cooperstown Otsego County
State of New York
Avon O – October 11th 1825
Dear Brother I Recd your letter contain-
-ing a gentle Rebuke for my not writing to you
but I assume you that I Did not know where to –
write as you wrote me that you talked of buying
a factory in Pennsylvania and a gentleman writing
here as he Did about your land left me in Dover
as to the Propriety of writing to Cooperstown –
any more untill I Should hear from you I should
be glad to see you here as you wrote that you
should be glad to buy a farm on the Ridge
Road there are several to be bought that farm
formerly owned by James Hall also the farm belong-
-ing to Amasa Chapman who now lives in Canandai-
-gua ontario county about two miles west of the –
Village. They are both good farms as you must
know yourself also theres one farm about half
a mile west of me containing 128 acres about
fifty five acres of improvements under a high state
of cultivation and better watered than any other –
farm in the County of Lorain there are on the premise
two log houses and two log farms and orcharding –
enough for one farm very handsomely situated –
and I understand well come at nine dollars per acre
it is all fenced into small lots with good fences
the looks very differently from what it did –
when you left here it began to assume a respectable
appearance and wither a few years land will be
valuable here as in any Part of the State of new york
we have an excellent mill built on black River
in Burrells Town at the old fishing ground so –
called friends all that is carried to it and mos-
-tly has built a large mill on the falls of Black
River Which will Rival the best mills in the state of
New york
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I Reed a letter a few days ago from the man
you sold to I gave him What information he Requested
I paid the Taxes last fall and the money you sent
me over and above What I have paid out for Taxes I –
Cannot send at this Time but will endeavoar
to Do it this fall I have not the money by me —
but I have money coming from Esger[?] Parnell[?] and
he has sent his Peasc[?] ashes To montreal and will –
pay me as soon as he gets Returning I have got Recpts
for the payments of the Taxes up to last fall which
I will send you with the money I wrote to Mr Stephens
Waters the Time the laxes must be Settled this fall
and expect he will send the money to settle them
the season has been extremely goof here this –
Summer corn is verry large wheat is good and all
kinds of Produce is good I want you to come and see
for yourself but write to me as often as you can
I want you to write how your cloths sell at the fac-
tory also any other information you may Think I –
stand in need of or would be matter of information
I had mr halls Recapt[?] fo the note youd left with
me against mr young parporting that he will ---[?]
---[?] you for it So with the most sincere –
Affection I Remain your friend and Brother –
Lodosier[?] Moon Avon Oct 5th 1825 –
To A. Aldrich Lodosier[?] Moon
Avon Lorain County Ohio
