Henrderson Dec.31.1841
Dear Children we imbrace the present operitunity
to in form you that threw the gradny of a kind
providence that we are still a live but are quite out
health your mother is very low and poor in flesh but
she is so as to be a bout house some we hope that these few
lines may find you and yours all well we rec? your
letter letter some time agow that informed us that
you healths in jeneral was not all good and likewise
your intention to move to illinois the next season and
your intention to make us one more Vissit in your
lifetime and that wold be the next season if you
could we hope if you live you will come and see us
you wrote that John & Lydia had cald and made you a
vissit and had given on a gain some whare I understand
that they live about ten miles from Cleveland; you wrote
that he got very mad and said that I had cheated
him out of a hundred Dollars it aint no strange thing
for John to git mad and sware and lie they lived with
me a bout two years and a half I let him have my place
upon sheary? and gave him two thirds of all the grain he
Raised I did not owe him a cent but Lydia did our
washing and some other chores and I gave them -
property to the amount of one hundred and forty
Dollars, and when they come to live with me all the
live stock they had was one cow one shout? one lamb and
I gave then five lambs two calves and when they went
a way they had one cow one two year old
three year olds fifteen sheep and and hay and one 
two year old they lost and raised them all on my
plase the neighbours said they ?? ?? ?? well
ap before and I dount beleave they ever will again
I lived with John as long as I could and live
he is a very bad tempered creature and he whips

his wife and abuzss her shamefuly and you be
my Judg wheather I have cheated him or
not lydia wald doo Well if she had a kind ??
but she follows him around the country to ??
whipt and bangd round I told maney before they
went away if his mother wald apnit? him I wald
give him a house and two acres of land but he
never shall live on my land while I live no ??
he wald git mad at me and call me a damb old ??
and damd old skamp But I wish him well in ??
well doing I do and wish them no harm.
I must say something a bout whignee? poor county
they have got their log cabins torn down ??
hand cider Barrels nocht open and lost ??
in this state but their koon skins, them ??
keep for morning weads? we have beat them in ??
town country and state this year in the state ??
I should be very glad to have my children to
write oftener then they does if money want so ??
I am put too to get money to pay the postage but
I dount with my children to neglect us aaron has
moved back to illinois we had a letter from susan
lately they were well clark has sowed 30 acres of wheat?
this fall we had a letter from abiathar lately They
ware well he writes that he is a studing ph?isick
we dount here nothing from Abraham
our love to all your children
to Benajah Williams			Isaiah Williams
Jerusha Williams			Anna Williams