[In black ink, a very densely written first page followed by a second page on the back of the first that is not a densely spaced.]
[Page 1]
Henderson Oct 25 1840
Dear Children it is threw the goodness of a kind and a manisall god ...
[says mother's health is very poor and that he thinks she won't live long]
... she wont stay long with us ...
my health it is as good as usual ...
your sister Salley Richards is dead she died the 2nd day
of this month after a painful sickness of two months your
mother and I was there when she died
[Abraham moved to Lake Superia last spring but haven't heard from him]
[Abiather lives in Iowa]
... Susan Clark lives in Illinois a
bout twenty miles west if Chicago in Warrensvill
Warren Vail lives in Illinois where Abraham lives ...
Hannah Vail lives here with R? Hungerford ...
Abel is to work in Dridon ...
John and Lydia live here with us ...
Hiram lives in Pennsylvania in the town of Erie in Erie County has bought
him a farm lives nigh Amos and Lewis Rathbuns ...
Lorenzo he never has come to see us ...

[page 2]
to Benajah Williams
Jerusha Williams
			Isaiah Williams
			Anna Williams

[page 4]
To Rev Benajah Williams
Chagrin Falls; Cuyahoga C
State of Ohio
[written upside down]
Henderson NY
Oct 30 1840
[in pencil] From Grandfather
announces death
of Sally Richards