Archive:Letter, Joseph Weston to Joel Whitney, 1770
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From Michael L. Watts:
"This is a old letter I came across while researching my Whitney connections in Maine. I thought you might be interested in it. It is a 1770 letter from Joseph and Hannah Weston, from the Downeast Ancestry magazine. It is copied as it was written so the spelling is not very good.
"This letter is to Joel and Mary (Weston) Whitney who first settled in Gorham, ME, where there oldest child was born. A year after moving to what is now Jonesboro, Joseph and Hannah speak of their wondering about the move. They also ask Joel to send a record of his brother Daniel's birth. This was a request from Joel's mother through the Westons."
Dear Children thes Lins corn with our Harty Love & Respect to you & your Children hoping thay will find you all in helth & prosprity & may inform you that throu the Goodnes & marcy of God on us we ar att this tim in a prity Good measour of health But it is a vari Malonkoli tim with me for it pleased God to Tak away my Son Joseph Weston By Death which was a vari heavi Strok of Devin Providence& which added to the affliction his oldest Son Josiah Died in about Seven weeks after his father & his wife in a week Lo Condition our other afars have Bean with a Sor frown of providence for in July the worms prevailed graitly among both grass & Corn & a vari Sor Drouth followed whar By hay is Skars & peopel ar obliged to kil of a great many of thar CattaIl: as for your afar att Gorham I Did not lick that you war so Disappointed But Did not know what to Say when you was hear But took pains to Inquam after ward & find the tnou reasion of your Disappointment to Ly with Issac Whitney for in our talk he freely told me that the Doctor cam to Look upon it he went Round the farm with the Doctor & told him the Land was poor & the times war poor & that it was not worth above five or six hundred hound att the most & that he knew you wold not tak So that I believe you will not Sell that Land tal you Do Remove that man of: I was then att harvest a I have him Look about to See how he (?) I should Bee glad if you wood taek Sum pains to go about with him: I Seam to have a mind for him to Look on the west Sid of pleasant River: I should Be Glad for you to give him the Best advice you can --- after the writing of the above I heard that it wod not Do for Josiah to Corn Down for ho could not Bee Entrtained if he should how ever I porpus him to come in the Spring: for I am Loath to have my Right lost: I was In Som hops that you wood Do Som thing about it for & if he Should not corn you might have it I had no letter from you But what I heard was from your mother: it was a grait Disapiontment for Josiah not to corn for he was all Redi I should have wrett Befor nowe but had not oportunity your Brother Daniel wood have you Send me the Record of his age: So Comending you to God & to the word of Grace Remain your Loveing father & mother
P S I Reseved your lettr Dated Septembn (?) & had not opportunity to writt to you tel noweCap Elizabeth Novombon: 24: 1770
Joseph Weston\Hannah Weston
"(The above letter was addressed: for Mr Joel Whetnoy att Mes Peckee or Changlers River (Chandlers River)"
This concerns the family of Joel5 and Mary (Weston) Whitney [Abel4, Nathaniel3, Benjamin2, John1]. He was born 21 May 1743, York, ME. They were m. 26 Sep 1765.
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