Letter from Joseph Cahoon to Joel B. Cahoon and D.K. Cahoon

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Letter from Joseph Cahoon to Joel B. Cahoon and D.K. Cahoon

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2000.FIC.02.212

Scope and Content

Letter from Joseph Cahoon to J.B. and D.K. Cahoon pleading for an answer to his four prior letters. He says all he has written to them about was the truth, and is asking if he has offended them. He continues in the letter reiterating his previous news and remarks. He is talking about a saw mill he is operating, and also asking for a life lease so he can get more property and build a new dam out of stone that he indicates will be able to withstand the water flow. He also sends news about the health and well being of mutual acquaintances, and also news about Amos. Dover 6th, July, 1837 My Dear Children How long shall I plead with you to answer my letters this I think is the fourth I have wrote and had no answer and have wrote of so many things that I have forgotten the most of them. Only I know that I have given you a true statement of things and this I can affirm. because truth I never will never deviate from. I remember that I wrote to you that I suffered much by the mill that has been built between me and the first Ridge on the account of its using so much water that I could not use one half of it and that I built a dam to save the water but it set back so short a distance that when there was a freshet and his flood gate started upon it it went across my pond - and beat down any dirt paths of my dam instead of turning and going to my tumbling way and that I repaired it again and again and found I could not make it ?attand? and gave it up and put a gate on the upper end of the back to turn off the water I could not use saved as family by the stream only until this spring in the fore part of May in a freshet Clemmond dam sliped from the bottom and come down but end gone most the trees in the bottom served as s rack to stop the trees and timber of the dam. coming only a few old tree, and loggs that was south of the field come and sweep away the dam flood and gate and the gate across the race; and came again of flood wood and made a distance of ?aires? a tree and bank and turned the water into the shreds and ?infened? the bank so little that with two days work we saved again until about the 20th, June without any thing up stream to defend us- [p. 2] Meanwhile Clemmonds built dirt dam instead of wood and had sawed a few days there was as frost afresh as ever as known run over smiths dirt dam and to save is they knocked off the bulkhead and let the water on Clemmons sweeps away his dam at once convened all floatable substence with the bridge and made it deposit in the lake which at that time was very long and made apeal - resistance at receiving of it, at the same time the water forced so hard through the channel that I cut for the row against the parts if the chill that it sliped and filled the race and saved my ?banings? below and before Independence we had a new bridge and have sawed some days and I am not disheartened yet. I enjoy a better health this spring and summer then I have for years and tend the sawmill to ?advatage? and have except one half day I have done all the repairs to the race necessary for sawing. In my former letters I plead for money to make repairs but now my health is so good and credit to that if you will send me a life lease I will borrow the money if I mortgage new lands for it. And I have the opinion of others with my own that I can build a dam that will withstand all the conditions by building with stone and a stone foundation across the streem against the above slipbank. 40 or 50 feet east thence & east to a ?barran nole? about the hight I wish. From that to the hill is 6 or eight on a level so that water will not brok the tufts of grass. with th stone tumbling will be off all of the water of both their ponds and while filling my pond which will contain both theirs it will go off with moderation. [p. 3] I have but a little more to write only to say you to write soon as the season is fast passing away and if I build a dam and make other plans it will take some time and the sooner we are about it the better and still I must urge you to return as soon as possible and as times are so hard it seems you cannot do much business why not pay us a visit and make some ne... ...for your Reception when you come. I... ...do not write and and send me a lease... ...that I can doe something I must leave... ...come and see you or write to you Po... ...master to inform me what is the matter... ...No more at present only to inform y... ...all our friends are well as commo... ...Johnson has gained her health so that... ...attends to her affaires as family. Jac... ...Health has been gone to the wen over a... ...returned Last Spring and I hear he say... ...he has bought two farms and paid Jerome and is going to move there in a short time Amos Cahoon has received a letter from Daniel K a short time since and it gives all Joy to you are all alive and in good health. Remember me to Daniel K. Cahoon My love to you all and to the children tell them Granpa has so so sheep apiece for them, and I must bid you farewell and... ...scribe the ??? of parents till death... From Joel B. & Mrs. L. Cahoon [p. 4] Dover O. 1837 July 8 Joel B. Cahoon Clear Spring Washington County M.D.

Collection

Early Family Papers: Cahoon

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Cahoon, Amos

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Cahoon, J.B.

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Cahoon, Joel Butler

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Cahoon, Joseph Sr.

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Cahoon, M.C.

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Clemmonds, Mr.

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Heath, Jacob

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Johnson, Abby

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Cahoon, Daniel Kenyon (b.1803)