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containing 80 acres lying on the west side of the road
Hill nearer home -- the big slough runing [running] through it I do not
remember the aprizal [appraisal] but it was lower than the
first lot on Sec Three and not as good land. I have
always intended to own one of those lots for a
meadow lot and I wish to have the advantage
of a good road to and from, The Terms are one fourth
down, six p. ct. [percent] interest in advance. I would not run
in dibt [debt] for any thing [anything] but land you can find out
whether the above lots are still vacant if so
I wish you to secure one at the next sale. I would
buy half or all of the lot being East half of South East
quarter of section fifteen Town 34 North of Range 10 E
being the lot lying ajoining [adjoining] our farm and Sawyers
on the East Side -- belongin [belonging] to some non resident [non-resident].

I am not So public Spirited as to give much for a plank
road but I should not like to own the road and if it
does not follow the Section line by our house I would
not give a farthing, there was some talk by Mr
Sawyer of having a road on the North Side of our
farm thence up the section line and then west by
school house thence angeling [angling] through our timber lot
down the grove and take up or vacate that part
of the road from the lower end of the lane West by the
Shultz house. Should an attempt be made I wish
you to have thrown before the board a heavy bill for
damages, but I am willing to give ground for
the road providing it runs on the division line
West through Section 16 or as near as the nature
of the ground will admit. I stand for my own inter-
-est. if I owned town property in Joliet I should feel
verry [very] anxious for all the rail and plank roads
Possible or if I wished to sell our home but not so
you probably had better take one share, $100 if you
think best and try to secure a lot of land by the side of it