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whose deaths you mentioned in your last letter.

It really seems as though it was to be
the lot of Capt Hutchinson and wife, to be called
upon to part with all their children.

One by One is called away from this world,
until now there are but few remaining, and
I think that fatal disease consumption has
already marked some of the surviving ones
for its victims ---

My health is good, -- as good as it ever
was. Mr Noyes [Ephraim Noyes] is quite well, excepting a slight
cold. And he is as well contented, as it is
possible for him to be, while away from
home and family. His wife wrote him by
last mail, that she was so lonesome at
Bridgewater, away from her own relatives
that she had concluded to give up housekeeping
sell off her furniture, and take the children
and move to Cambridge and live there until
Mr N. returns home. He seems pleased
with the idea of her doing so, as he says she
has relations there and in Boston, so she
will enjoy herself better, besides having less
work to do, than she would if she should
remain at North Bridgewater -----

I should not wonder if Mr N. went
home next Spring or early in the Summer,
for he seems to be anxious to see his youngest
Son, which was born since he left home -----