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76.18.30

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Letter to Joseph DeWolf Front: "Mr Joseph Dewolf Esq. [Esquire] Vernnon [Vernon] Trumbull County Ohio" Back: "Dear Brother and Sister threw a Divine ? I am yet in the Land of Living and I have grate [great] reason to bless you for his ? to me. as to my health it is poor. I feel myself on the decline of Life. my strength ? decase? I hope that we may be prepared to meat [meet] Each other in the realm of bliss where there will be no pane [pain] no Sorrow no Sighing ? pane [pain] and all tears will be wiped from our Eyes. I feel very anctios [anxious] to hear from you all. I wish you to write to me and informe [inform] me concerning the health and situation of your fammiley [family]. Likewise I have ritten [written] to you concerning a box you note to me you sent me one by the hand of Brother ? I never rece[i]ved any from him. I wish to no [know] what box it was and wheather [whether] there was anything in it. I hope you won't deny me from [w]riting about it for it has given me grate [great] uneasence. How pleased I shall be to receve [receive] a present from a sister in a distent [distant] and forren [foreign] land. I shall often look on it and thank of you with the gratest [greatest] pleasure if you no [know] Anything about ? ? I wish you to [w]rite to me as to our fr[i]ends around us they are usalley [usually] well I hiard [heard] from Brother Peter this summer he was almost blind not able to ? aney [any] ? his fameley [family] were well. Jedediah wife ? ? Lov[e] to you all wishes you to [w]rite her a letter her daughters are all manned and Left her. She is blind with one Eye feels to have you excuse her about [w]riting Dear Brother and Sister ? ? pleases to receive a Letter from you. I hope you will excuse my poor [w]riting. I feel to wish you all the blessings that Heaven can ? ? you. I will inform you that my Daughter Ruhame Departed this life a year ago Last July with a ? ? Left two Little Daughters and a tender companion to Lement [lament] her los[s]. She manned ? Dibble of granby. these from your affectionate sisters give my Love to all your famely [family] ? to Kenney tell him to [w]rite me one more letter. Joseph and Sarah Dewolf Elizabeth GIbbons Sarah Gibbons"

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