August the first In the year 1864

 

First i let you know thad wee are all well and neighbers so far as i know yet And further i let you know that weet and oats and hay did all torn out good And further wee have god a wet spring bud now it is very try So wee have now no good lookout for corn and bodatus and so on And further I ges you do know so much as wee do from war and hart times as wee doo thn so i will lieve it And further I let you know that i did sell my property And now I dond no yet wher i will go to by meean other plase cheep and good And now i ask you Is something such in your neighberhoot or Corntry for aboud 8 or 9 hundred dorllers with buildings And if you rite mee from such a pese Then rite mee what cint of land and what building and frute and good water or not runing water or pump And rite from more then from one pease bicker and smaller And further i let you know thad your brother Charles Albricht whas here last spring And he tolt mee from che cheap land thad you did rote him And i doo like to know more from it Now I quit to rite for this time And i wouldt like to have a letter from you soon as posable And now i will tell you our direction       John Beck       Forresthill Postoffice

Union County Pensylvania     So much from mee

John Beck and Catharine Beck Daughter of Elias Leinbach /

 

Frederick Leinbach

 

I tell you thad i am here on wisit And we are all well and all friends and neighbers so far as i know I did not know where you lieve bud now i did fint it out I did not rote to you thad Father and Mother are died bud i hope you did here it from other friends I god not much time yet I have god a pese of land and i did solt it too And if John Becks will moove out in indiana then i ges i will come along And rite onest to mee soon

 

My direction is Terrehill Postoffice Lancaster County Pensylvania So Much from mee

                                    Frederick Leinbach

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