In Their Own Words: Daily Life in Antebellum Rural
New Yorka
TFamily and Daily Life |
Greenwich Headquarters October th4 1814
Dear and af [ection] ate companion I nowe gladly embrace another opportunity to
write afelines to you to inform you that I enjoy a r??iable state of health at
present I have been some thing unwell for three or four days back but am much
better. I received your leter day before yesterday I was very glad to hear from
you and to hear that you was well you wrote that you wanted to know what colour
I wish to have my cloth I think best to have it some dark colour. You may ???
colour any colour you think. Best you nead not ??? I ??? ??? again I have had
some expectation of giting clear but it is uncertain whether I shall I should be
glad to be discharged and live to home. I prefer home to this place altho I live
well. I board out of camp and give three dollars a week for board. We drawed our
guns last Saturday and I think it’s not likely that we shall dismissed very soon
at the ? don’t think any danger of the British Landing here it is considered a
very healthy time there is but a few sick in our ridgment but that is able to be
about and but one died I want you to rite to me the first very opportunity I
feel ? a moment around I want from you as often ?? and I want you to wrote how
things how you git along with ? you wrote that you had sold the butter and had
paid off ? I am glad that he is paid. Buter is a selling from to shilling to two
in ???? things is very high hear Comon Salt is two dollars a bushel tea is two
dollars a pound things is higher hear than they was in the Cuntry. I heard that
Cyrus Honman has gone out of camp This after noon sick to the hospitell he has
not been well since. he has been here I saw him this morning and he said that he
was as well as ? had been but was unwell he had a petition for me to sine for
his discharge. I have nothing of importance to write. I went Sunday morning to
meeting in ?ater ?ison and heard a Baptist preach and in the afternoon we had
preaching in the Camp and in the evening David & I went down in town to the
Methodist Church in Dewain Street I conclude
Burr Silliman Eunice Silliman
Transcribed for this website by Terri Nan Treibits.
Courtesy of the Delaware County Historical Association Archives,
46549 State Hwy 10, Delhi, NY, 13753.
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