, Letter, between and , Hancock Co., IL, to JS, , Hancock Co., IL, 2 Apr. 1843; handwriting probably of ; four pages; Newel K. Whitney, Papers, BYU.
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of wheet and about twenty five or thurty bushels of oats I have paid my for <the> past year with an excepttion of a tenth of the corn, I have ben perticular in giving you a history of my concerns for the past and presant, and wish to ask your counsyl for the future if you can give me counsyl that will put me in the way of prospirity it will be received as a precious morcel and will make me happy endeed, I often think of the Choice blssings that ware pronounced uppon my hed buy and when the enemy of my soul pores forth his floods of trouble upon me I am led to cry out when shall these things be fullfilled will you help me brother Joseph buy your counsyl and prayrs that I may over come,