Arvine Wales letter to Arvine C. Wales, December 28, 1844

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        A.C. Wales                   Massillon Dec 28th 1844
               Dear Son
   Yours of 22d ins came safely to ahdn in due course of time which was very acceptable we are all in usual health having for the last tow weeks been a verry busy time. On thanksgiving we gave a dinner to children including Pomeroy & Clarissa the elders of the place to the no of 24 after which the children & people of the hill to the no 16 or 18 more partook, on Sunday evening mrs Bales of the woman of the ceder house died & was interred on Monday, On tuesday we butchered & in the week I was two days on road has made a verry bush weekBephia has left not to return she left becasue she her self was convinced she was not qualitied for the place she designed to fill I have received a long letter form Cousin Porter they were in the midest of the floods of Indiana & Illinois & staid as long as they thought it prudent on acct of sickness from stagnant water traveled through the mud to the Ohio river to where they found their frd. I think at Warsaw & by steam boat to Wheeling, they were 3 or 4 hour in Cincinnati of which place she was much pleased & was delighted with the travel & beauty of the Ohio river went home via Phil, New York etc & were better pleased with Ohio than Indianna. I have received a deed of the Laudenville qt of land and the people are a making vigerous efforts to get a new [illegible] set off to be called Mohican should they succeed I shall lay out an addition to the village of Laudenville. I have also sold the north half of your lot to Robert Folger Esqr for $850, he transferring to me a mount of $200 on the Middleton house in Kendal due