Preparing For The Worst
Sandy is coming. I'm still not feeling well at all. I hope to be here in the shop tomorrow bringing you a smile, but I just don't know what the next few days will bring.
If you're in the path, please be careful. Use common sense. Help others if you're able.
Before I take off to batten hatches and divert auxiliary power to the shields, here's a bookmark from the archives:
Letter:
Addressed to:
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If you're in the path, please be careful. Use common sense. Help others if you're able.
Before I take off to batten hatches and divert auxiliary power to the shields, here's a bookmark from the archives:



Letter:
Addressed to:
Barnabas Brown EsquireStamped: New York OCT ??
Post Office New Berlin
County Chenango
N. York
New York 20th Octo 1826Found in "The Works of P. Virgilius Maro" by Levi Hart and V.R. Osborn. Published by Joseph N. Lewis, Baltimore, 1833.
No. 416 Broome Street
direct to me at this house its near Broadway 1/2 a mile North of the City Hall
Dearly Beloved,
I have wrote this since I receivde thy letter of 25th March. I am in tolerable good Health for one that has ???? so many years towards the blessed end of all things here, I ???? tho approved towards eternal Rest with more pleasing comfort, that I ever didthe ?????? in part of any ????? I ever went, I have lived two years over the time Layd down in the Book for human life and I think th??? is very few that have past through so long a life with more peace of mind that I have done.
I have sold my farm at New Rochelle finding it too bothersome at this time of life to have such a charge ........???........ people about me, the crops in all this quarter is very good & fruit extra fine and it's a general time of health and a great plenty of the good things of this world at market. My love to wife and children
Will _____
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Published on October 29, 2012 07:10
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