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CATALOG NUMBER S 1026
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE December 9, 1807
AUTHOR Sybil Farnham Sawyer (mother) & Micajah Sawyer (father)
RECIPIENT Mary Anna Schuyler and Philip Jeremiah Schuyler
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee, William Shuyler, Philip Jeremiah
Schuyler
PLACES Newburyport,
KEYWORDS child bearing ”no trifling matter”, birth of William Sawyer, motherly
concerns, paternal joy with a poem
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G. S. Birth of William Schuyler
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B B 1 -
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December th9 1807
We were very much gratified My Dear Child by your comforting letter / Nov’er 29 thankfull for the kind friends, the health spirits and good hopes / which you are favoured with, and that your prospect is so good as to a nurse, / was glad to hear of the visit from Mrs Sands and daughter, and that you joined them / in pious concert of prayer, should ever wish you to keep up a friendly intercourse / Every sensibly [feel] Mrs Tilliston kindness present my regards, not for geting / your good neightbour Mrs [King], if we could have known that the winter would / have held of so, and that there would be so much time between your being sick / and your sisters, and that she would have got so finely, nothing but want / of health would have prevented my being with you, her prospect now is very / encouraging,
How has my heart yearned towards you My Dear MaryAnna when passing / through the perils of child bearing, which is no trifling matter, My mind / is per-[pe]-tually employed upon you your interesting situation, but I have endeavoured / to look beyond human help, to that almighty power which is able to do / more and better then we can ask or think,
December th 14
Your very welcome and all important letter of the 6 December we received / this day anouncing the happy event of our Dear Mary Anna’s having got / safe to bed, so great a Blessing made our hearts leap for joy, we immediate-[^ly] / acquainted our friends with the pleasing intelligence and they all rejoiced / with us,
Hope my Dear Child, you have continued finely, but you / must not be too well as the saying is, great care and prudence is still /
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Requisite, when able you must write me every particular, and / what sort of a body this little stranger is, my dear Schuyler / hope you will continue your goodness in writing often as we still feel / anxious, affectionate remembrance to all adieu S. Sawyer
Joy, Joy to you its Parents Joy to us its GrandParents, / and to all its numerous happy Friends 〜 may / the dear Boy pofsefs the manly Sense of its / Father, the indearing Benevolence, Goodnefs, / and Piety of its Mother, may it live to be a / comfort to its Friends, an Ornament to Society, and a Blefsing in the World 〜 and may God / grant that it may
“Live to know and dear Him /
Trust and love him, all its days /
Then go dwell for ever near Him, /
See his Face, and sing his Praise”
So devoutly wishes, and Prays, his and your /
Every affectionate Mic Sawyer
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Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
