be sea sick. from what they have said I expect that they had a pretty sorry time of it Betsey said that she should have been glad that I was not with them if she had only known that I was on board of the Chesapeake but the appeared to have been a considerably alarmed about me for fear that I had got knocked over board. But I was landed in safety at Detroit about half past seven with out feeling the least sea sickness any more than I should had I been sitting by your fireside or feling the least alarmed about being drowned in the Lake. I took the 9 oclock cars for Ysilanti thirty miles from Detroit and from their I walked ten miles to salem but by that time I thought that I was about tired enough to hire my passage in the stage to Tecumseh which was about 17 miles and arrived at John Banges about 8 oclock in the evening --- being both tired and hungry. I found that they did not get home but 3 or 4 hours before that I did ----- It cost me about 10 shillings more the way that I came than it did the rest of the company it cost me but little more than ten dollars to come through while the rest came for $9 but paper is allmost full and it is time for me to close this time of scribbling by biding you a dieu. J. H. Silliman

 Aunt Sally sends her respects to you all and says that she thinks the she shall write soon.

Transcribed for this website by Terri Nan Ahrens.

Courtesy of the Delaware County Historical Association Archives, 46549 State Hwy 10, Delhi, NY, 13753.

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