I have felt my mind a good deal uneasy by not receiving a letter
from you fore months has elapsed since I received your last I have
been feerful you were sick you have gone through so much fatigue
and hardship since you left home, may the God of truth arrest
you[r] attention and bring you to feal the necessity of working out
your solles salvation I must now begin to tell you of the
reffermation in Zains Ville since you left home I will commence at sister
Brooks family in the first place D Brooke joind the methodist
Church in a few weeks after he embrased religion his father two
sister with myself joind the same, I have reason to rejoice in the
lord for what he has done for my immortal part he has brought
me to see the errow of my weys and turned my back upon sin and
folly to the living god. when I look back upon my past life and
see how many of my preacious hours I have spent in sin I wonder
that I have not been cut down as a cumberer of the ground, let me
impress upon your mind how nessary, how important it is to be
preparred for that awful messenger, death, which awaits all the
children of men sooner or later, O my dear let us join heart and hand
in praising the lord for his mercy induretb for ever for he has
promised the righteous shall never [be ] forsaken nor their seed
begging bread, has he not been knocking at the door of you heart until
his locks has been wet with the dew I keep him out no longer open
now your heart and let him in and sup with him you with him,
do not as felix did say go thy way and at a more convenient
season I will call for thee now is the acceptable time behold now is
the day of salvation O my Dear do not be over ancios about much
of this worrlds goods it is but little we want and that little but a
little while, may we live a life that when we come to leave this
world that we may rejoice in the god of our salvation, and if we are
not prepared what an awful thing it will be to here that sentance
pronounced depart ye workers of inquity for I no you not, O my
Dear my whole sole is drawn out for you do not refuse to come
where there is so much felicity awaits you because pressed to by a
person who is unworthy to bring you the invitation we have passed
many years beneath the same roof we have born the same fatigues
and tasted the same pleasures, why then should we be sepperated
now, why should they be devided who by nature habit and
friendship have been so long united I have undertaking a journey to the
new jerrusalem Suffer me not to go alone thither let neather the
fatigue nor the lenghth of the wey affright you we shall be provided
for ever with the heavenly manna and streems of living water god
himself shall go before us in a piller of fire and under the
protection of his wings we may walk without fear through the valley and
shadow of death, come then my dear I am most unwilling to leave
you behind come support me go before me in courage and show me
the wright wey I feel the want of a faithful companion and a
cristain friend suffer me to throw myself at you feet to imbrace youfr]
knees and wash your feet with the tears that is streeming from my
eyes I ask no part of temporal possession only enough to live on but
I intreet you to seek an internal [sic] inheritance, I seek neather
gold nor silver but I am ancios you should share my joys I am
solicitious that you should accompany me to mount sion to the sitty
of the living god that you should mix in the innumerable company
of angels who are placed in the church of the first Born I am ancious
therefore that you should come and have your name written in the
lam[b's] book of life.
I send this by a Mr C[l]opper he is a resadent of maryland he
tell me he is a going to be a neighbour of ours I am much pleased
with his appearances he is an acquaintance of S Culberson he
brought him up and introduced him as one of my texas neighbours I
felt rejoiced to think we were a going to have some inlitted
[enlightened] people to settle amongst us father and Isaac have written they
have told you the news of the day I s[t]ill live where you left me, I
have some idea of paying a visit to Baltimore this spring I feel very
ancios to see my sister once more I suppose when I leave here for
texes it is not probble I ever shall have the opportunity of seeing
her again if I go I shall break up house keeping and leave my
children with my friends they all think I ought to go Isaac ses he
will furnish me with a horse I thought my expenoes would be very
little more than if I were to stay at home, it is about one year since
you left home, if I had a thought you would of been gone this long
you would not of got of with[out] me O my very sole yearns within
me for the partner of my bosom my whole sole is led out for your
restoration in crist, give not sleep to your eyes not slumber to your
eye lids untill you find pease to your sole you will never have to
regret that you have turned in with the overtures of mercy, only that
you have spent so many of your precious hours in running from god,
0 my Dear if I could but see you if it was but for one hour how glad
I should be but why do I talk thus seeing I am deprived of your
society for such a length [of] time perhaps it is all permitted for
our good I hope it will work out our sole salvation we no not that
we ever shall meet in this untendly world or not if not let us live
so as to claim an inheritance at his wright hand where there is no more
parting do not think I am beside myself for I feel the importance
of soles so great I feel very unwilling to stop here I feel as if I
could write a vollum but time will not permit Mr Clopper stay here
is but short I would willing[ly] send you some articles of cloththing
(sic) I expect you need shirts very much but I hope you will not go
without anything to make you comfortable I have not received any
thing from port gibson as yet I hope you will not let any
opportunity pass without writing it gives me a great deel of uneasiness
when I do not here from you for any length of time Mr Clopper has
brought his family to Cincinnate there he will leave them until fall
he sed it would be a convenient wey for me to go with them I should
be very willing to meet you half wey your friends think it would
not be best for you to return to this place, however, I shall leave this
entirely to yourself I expect father has written you more fully upon
the subject myself and children have enjoyed uninterrupted health
since you left home you[r] friend[s] here are generally well I have
not seen your mother for some time to speek to her but I believe she
is well E Brooke has united herself to Samuel B Cripps of
BrownsVille she has done very well as to this worlds goods he appears to be
a very fine young man he thinks he will see us—[torn] Mr Clopper
ses if any of our friend will condescend to pay us a visit he will
never live in this Country again he is quite much taken with it as you
are sister Brooke and H C sens there love to you your little son
grows I do not suppose he would know you tho he talks about you
every day every person he sees wriden this wey he ses mamy here
is papy is a coming if he sees me looks serious or crying he ses mamy
dont cry papy will come home John Marry and David send there
love to you in which I join them may the god of Isral protect you
through your jorney and bring us to gether once more is the
prevailing prayer of your unaltered wife Martha M did you ever get
my letters to [you] directed to Nachitoces I was fearful you did not
by my not receiving an anser I wrote two the one after the oather
imieadly I was in hopse you would get them both your most
affectionately