Name/Title
Letter from E.B. Sawyer to Selden Osborn 1854Entry/Object ID
2011.01.023Scope and Content
Letter from E.B. Sawyer to Selden Osborn 1854
The letter begins by saying he misses his old neighbors. His wife has a cough and discusses her health.
The crops in the area are good: wheat and oat very heavy on the ground and nearly fit to cut. Some have 300 acres of corn which is a staple crop. He has 12 acres of corn, 1 potato and 4 oats.
The chestnuts that Selden sent are doing fine 18 to 20" high and he is going to send for a barrel if Selden raises any. He urges Selden to come and visit and see his wife. This would sound big that he has a patient in Illinois. He must be content with the honor and not expect a large fee. He has a brother Edward who is on the way and would come with him.
He sends his regards and asks Selden to write back.
E.B. Sawyer, Dewitt, Dewitt Co., Ill.
Transcribed:
Selden Osborn / North Dover / Cuyahoga Co. / Ohio
June 24/54
Dewitt Dewitt Ill
Dear Friend Osborn
I begin to feel I ought
to answer your call letter for reasons
one (a very selfish one) because I want to hear
from you and our old neighbors the other
because it is honestly due to you with these
apologies I will proceed
We are tolerable well Mrs. Sawyer is troubled
with a bad cough its seems to be a good deal as
Phoebes was. She has doctored some for it
what we could do our selves we have nothing
but apothecary Doctors here I should be glad
if we had your advice about her cough and
some of your cooling syrups for her to take
She is of that age of life which is so subject to
disease I think if we could keep her a long
two or three years she might regain and have
comfortable health again I wish you would
call in and see her the first time you pass.
This is a very healthy country I believe the air
and water both good crops look extremely good
wheat and oat very heavy on the ground
and nearly fit to eat and a right smart chance
of corn on the ground to till up than 30 acres
here would be considered no crop at tall at all
45 a crop at is a common crop here for a common
Farmer and some have three hundred acres and
field corn is the staple crop here although
I believe this to be a good wheat and grap[e] country
the old settler are selling out here to Eastern
people and they altering the face of the
country very fast and tearing away the cabins
and buildings houses and barns sowing wheat and
oat and raisings potatoes.
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I have about 12 acres corn 1 potatoes 4 ½ oat
it is a good place to raise stock a plenty of
good pasturage here and cheap wintering
the chestnuts you sent are doing fine are 18 or 20
inches high I am a going to send for a barrel
of chestnuts this fall if you raise any and a barrel
of chub onions for seed write me about the
prospect of chestnuts Friend Selden I should like
to see you very much why cant you get on to
a cart and come and see us it will only take you
20 hours come and see our country make a
professionable call on my wife it will sound big
that you have a patiente in Illinois in to attend
to you must we content with the honor and not
expect a large fee Land Cattle horses and produce
are very high here for a new country we are in 8
miles to the Eastern or Central Ill. R. Road and
have a convenient market when you come come
to Clinton on the Central R. Road My brother
Edmund lives there and he will come here with you
if you could come it would be a pleasant excursion
for you (with out joking) I wish you would write
to me on the receipt of this and tell me how you
are and family and all the news of the town &
for My Wife and Children send there Respects to you
and yours
Most truly yours / E.B. Sawyer / of / Dewitt / Dewitt co.
To Selden Osborn / North Dover / Cuyahoga Co. / OhioCollection
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Notes
2011.01.022 Note regarding financial settlement from E.B. Sawyer
