Lois Peters told her husband, Captain Nathan Peters, that she had harvested eighty bushels of corn and sold the oxen for £10 to keep their saddlery solvent. “Pray come home as soon as possible.… A visit from you at any time would be agreeable.” If he sent some cloth, she would sew him a shirt and “take great pleasure in doing it.” She signed her letter, “Your loving wife until dead.”
