B-46-4
Steubenville March 4 1813
My dear friend,
It is with--I may say
with exquisite grief, I inform you that
your flock at Luptons has been most
shamefully neglected. I saw a Gentleman
yesterday, whose veracity cannot be doubted, who
informed me that out of 40 lambs which have
dropped there, only Nine have been saved--
---that he counted himself Twenty dead lambs
lying around the fold!---besides from 7 to
10 Old sheep ---that Lupton to be sure
feeds them at night, but never sees them
again until next morning---That you
see my dear friend the rich gifts confered
on you by a good and countiful Provi-
-dence have been thrown away---despised-
and trampled on. Lupton knows no more
his duty than a Horse---or if he knows
it, he has no more sensibility than an
Ass. And all this neglect has happened
in the neighborhood of two miles where
an abundance of bran might have been had
so as to yeald milk to the lambs.---
