
I received your letter last weak week & was glad to hear from you I receivd received some papers about three weaks weeks ago last summer I was in brooklyn & I hunted for you but could not find you I mad made up my mind that I would not hear from you again but I have I received your picture & I thought it looked natural it is night now & I was agoing to the villiage tomorrow So I thought I would write A few lines to you my halth health is good & so is my family I have got three boys & one girl

the way that I came to be in brooklyn I was A Canalin Canaling
it last summer & we went to new york new jersey brooklyn port morris newark new jersey &
several places but did not see any thing of walt in anny any
of the places I talk some of canaling this summer but dont don't
now know
for sertain certain
yet I wat want
you to tell me where Camden is
whether it is in the upper or lower part jersey or off towards newark so that if I do Come down there
I can find you I would like to see you verry very
much last
fall I bought A small farm & paid
fifty dollas dollars
down & fifty this spring it makes
pretty hard time with me this spring I ame am
owing some debts that I dont don't
no know
whether I can pay them or not this spring one of my horses is so lame that I cant can't
work him & I have every thing to buy I have got one cow & the two sheep that is all of my stock
youre your
letters was directed rite right
the two firts first
years of my mairage marriage
my wife was sick the most of the time so it used up what money that I had then but her health has
ben been
verry very
well
sence since
then

ther there was so much son sun this winter that it has ben been bad gitting getting aroung around in this part of the cuntry country the snow is about 4 feat feet deap deep now in the woods but not so deep in the fealds fields I like your peaces pieces in the paper verry very much I am to pay four hundred dollars for 39 3/4 acres of land A small house & barn on it I dont don't now know as I can think of anny any more to write at present So good buy bye for this time
this is from Bethuel Smith your friendThis pictur picture was taken about nine years ago