January the 20^th

Montgomery Co. Ind

 

Dear friend it is with pleasure that I take my pen in hand to rite you a few lines to let you no how we all are pap and marcellus very bad colds and I have a pain in my hip at the presant the frens are all well as far as no at this time Ben Booker was at my house last mondy night and his folks was well uncle George I havent saw friend Hiatt for some time and I cannot tell you how he is geting along you rote to me that he rote to wills Father that he had the money for one of wills hogs / and suppose that he gessed at the amount that the hog brought for he had his one and that one all wighed at one draft I havent brought them things from Siles yet you rote to me to go and git them and Sary rote to not go and git them you can deside whether fetch them away or not and then rite to me and I will go or stay as you say I hunted wills tax and payed them they amount three dollars and seventy one cent I have the receit quween looks right smart beter than she did we have had the warmest and weatest winter that I ever saw there was a snow fell the 10 and 17 of January / and is going off at this time with amist of rain there has a spring boke out of the bluff north of the depo at Crawfordsville and they tell me that the water not more than go through a box too feet square and they havent found botom they have thrust a thirty foot pole into it and felt no botom and hit has bin said that they put sixteen hundred and forty feet of twine into it with a wagin box to the end of it that is all that I will tell you at this time you must rite soon so no more at this time only remaining frend until death Isaac Booker

                                    to George Hubort

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