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Salem Columbiana County Ohio 11 mo 27th 1815
Esteemed friend
Thos Rotch
I received at quarterly meeting thy favour of the 11th of this inst and acknowledge thy kind offer relative to sending my wool to your factory to be manufactured but I sold all the common and half blood wool in the summer and the full bloods sent to Joseph Steers factory concluding I would not take $1.25 for lb for that. the manufactorers near us asked nearly as much as the cloth would fetch when done and I recieved no account from yours. My sheep contiues to do very poorly which has much baffled my prospects but i cannot dispose to give it up yet hoping I shall after a while have