Jeremiah Winslow letter to Thomas Rotch, New Bedford, 2nd mo 25th 1802

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            New Bedford 2d mo 25th 1802
Esteemed Friends
T & C Rotch
                     I intended writing to you by Francis Brinker but I percieved  there were so many writing that I should have nothing interesting to inform you of. I therefore concluded to adjourn it to some future time and now I have nothing important or pleasing to write but I think it will not be unpleasing to you to hear occurrences of a more trivial nature. At present every thing around us appears very dreary, on second & third days we had a violent snow storm and the snow very much blown in heaps in some places Six or eight feet deep, so that the Newport Mail which was due on second day, and the Boston Mail which ought to have been here on third day have neither of them arrived. Saml Rodmans store chimney was blown down, and a window blown in during the storm. We have not yet heard from Cape Cod or Nantucket but from the violence of the gale we may expect to hear of many ship wrecks. it began to snow again this morning and it continues to fall very fast, Yesterday morning our River was frozen over as low as Clarks point