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Smithtown, N.B. Jan 1938 from Andrew Sherwood BeyeaEntry/Object ID
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Gemini said
This is a transcription of the four-page letter dated January 28, 1938, from Andrew Sherwood Beyea to his cousins.
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Smithtown, N. B.
January 28th, 1938.
My Dear Cousins All:—
It is long past time that I should have written to you, I know, but while I was sick last summer I got so far behind with my correspondence that I simply got discouraged trying to answer all the letters that was due from me to my friends and so I simply relaxed and now I will have to try and make up for my past neglect.
I am thankful to write we are all quite well and that my health has improved greatly. I am feeling fairly well and it may be that I have inherited from my respected ancestress, Sarah Wells, enough vim to carry me well past the three score and ten years mark. I doubt not that she in her day that she followed
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closely your directions and "used a little wine for her stomach’s sake and her often infirmities."
By the way I greatly enjoyed the story of her horse back ride at the age of a 100 years I wish I could learn more about her.
Your letter went down to Edwin Smith and he and his sister were both greatly interested in its contents. Eddie keeps about the same the doctor wants him to go to the hospital but he refuses to go but I bet if Molly Bull could be there to nurse him he would be for going immediately. He is very much taken with the picture of Molly and himself in fact we all are and have showed it to a great many of our friends and they have all pronounced Molly a fine looking young lady so she may count on having a lot of Bluenose admirers in N. B.
You wrote of an old letter written by Peter Bull to Humphrey Bull. In the year 1851 Mr. and Mrs. Ebenezer Bull and Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Bull came here
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to visit their relatives and a year or so later to young men Stephen Bull and Andrew Sprague went from here to Hamptonburg. Andrew Sprague was a grand son of Mr. Humphrey Bull and he probably carried the letter back to Orange County as a kind of introduction to the people there.
Both Stephen Bull and Andrew Sprague have now been dead many years, Stephen was a half brother to the William Judson Bull who was at the picnic the same year that I was there, he died last August at his home in Massachusetts.
I was pleased to learn that your daughter Mrs. Brown was living at the "Old Stone House" for I am sure she will be deeply interested in its upkeep. I am not so clear about meeting Mrs. Brown but I remember seeing her baby then only a few months old. A young girl was taking care of him. I think it was Mollie and I mistook her for the baby's mother so I said to her, you have a fine looking baby and
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she answered me "Surely you do not think he is my baby why I am not even married yet—"
I have not had a letter from Jean Hoffeles since she wrote me about her wonderful visit among you I suppose it is because I failed to write to her.
Please remember us all to Mrs. Vandervort; to Miss Mollie and our Mother President Mrs. Amy Bull Crist. We all would like so much to have them or any of you to come visit us at any time.
With kindest regards to you both I remain, Sincerely Yours,
Andrew Sherwood Beyea
P. S.
Address.
William M. Beyea,
54 Abbot Street,
Gardner, Mass.
