Letter to Thomas T. Sloan from Bridget Sloan, December 2, 1833

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Lexington Dec 2 1833

My dear boy

Your long looked for has come to hand at last, and I now sit me down to address you with feelings some what goomy [gloomy] as I have just witnessed the execution of an negro man, he was hang'd on a tree in the streete before my window. He was condemned to death and hun for killing his wife.

I epect you have not heard of the death of your cousin Fanny, and her sister-Sarah, and your Uncle-- Guerin. All departed this life with in the space of a month. Fanny was the first that died. She was sick-- eleven days with an inflamation of the brain. But, str -ang [strange] to say, she was senseble when she was dying.-- Her poore afflicted Father asked her if she was affaid to die. She sayed, no, she was not, but she had ant -icipated to live to be an ornament to society. Sarah dyed of fever, and Mr Guerin of consumption. Your Aunt Fanny apears (to judge from her letters) to be in great distress. She sayes your Uncle Thomas must take her from that pace [place], or she will die with uarief [grief]. He has not concluded yet what he will do but he will I expect have to go down there to arange her business. Doc Ray speaks of moving from that contery.

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Your brother is well, and geting fat, you would laugh to hear him taulk of marrying, he vows he must have a wife. He is yet in love with Elizabeth Morton and vissites her frequently.

Our family has increased by several the Rev. Mr-McMaon Robert and a gentleman by the name of Bouv -assa, He is a law student. The little office is now full your brother occupys [ ? ] old roome, and the other two roomes are filled by the above named gentlemen. But I think, (if I mistake not) that I have spoke of this to youbefore. Mr B.is a french man except one fourth ind -ian. His mother is the daughter of a former Chief of the Potawatomyes, and a french woman. You would be amused to hear him call himself the savage, the read man, &c &c. He showes his indin blood very plain you can see it at the first glance. He was educated in New York. I spent an evening not long since, at Mr Clarys, it was a small party given to a young lady who was there on a visit from Louisville. It was quite a pleasant party. The young people danced by the musick of the piano. But Mary Jane was prodidiously vext when time to go home to find it was raining, and we was compeld to stay all night. I saw toby there, he was brought to me in the drawing -room before all the comany to see me. Clary told me he could not get him to stay with him until the black man dyed last summer. Toby lay by his corps untill he was carryed to

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the grave, he then followed, and remaind untill he saw the last right performed, and then Clary took him home with, and he has remained there ever since. It is not toby that Robert has he has been deceived.

I frequently make requests or ask you quesens in my letters, but you from some cause seldom notise them, and I am sorry to say that when you do write (particularly the last one) you write as if it was a task. You say you have nothing to say, but must fill the sheets with something. Is it poseble that after six weeks or two months silence, that you can find nothing to say to me. If you do not write more freely, I shall think you have forgotten that you have a mother whose heart can po[sess?] [portion of paper torn away] joys or sorrows, and can be the confident, as [portion of paper torn away] she is your friend.

We are all in heath [health] except Magaretta and your [word obscured] who is not ill, but rather indisposed. I feele that I can not do without seeing you soon cannot you visit us soon? I wish you would write more frequently, all sends you love, and says you are very reserve to-wards them Mary Jane says you know she cannot write, but you must take the will for the deede. Let me hear from you soon

Your mother & friend

B. Sloan

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Mr Thomas T. Sloan

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