Elizabeth Richmond letter to Thomas Rotch, Hartford 1st mo 29th 1814

               
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                                 Hartford 1st Mo 29th 1814
  Dear Friends
                i take pen in hand to informe
  you that we recieved your acceptable letter
  sum time past and was pleased to hear of
  your well fair and that you thought of visiting
  your friends this way once more but we have
  allmost got discouraged looking for you as time
  slids so swiftly a way and I all most begin to think
  that we shall make you a visit first in the Ohio
  as things seem at present to present I thought I
  would let you know that we are at liberty to seek
  our fortunes as Levi Arnold has laitly sold his farme
  for twenty five thousand Dollars to Jerad Skerbarughs
  cuming hear in the spring to live J Smith has
  written to Daniel that if we have a mind to cume to
  Philadelphia that he will healp him to a farme
  but Daniel wishes to live on his own land
  if it is but a little which no one will think strange
  that if we do not go to Ohio now we neaver shall. it looks
  like a great undertaking to me to move so far but time
  convinces us that we have to do many things