I cry out, "Help,
Lord! for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the
children of men."
We desire to know through your own candid view of your prospects, as
well as present condition, whether we may be justified in so disposing
our affairs as to ultimately join your Association. At present I am
laboring on my farm, near Cincinnati, having no definite plan of future
action.
Please write me definitely upon what terms we may join you, how much I
must put into the Association to secure the support of my family and
myself--it being understood that we take hold as the rest of you do.
Besides my wife I have a son sixteen years of age, another eleven, a
third seven and a daughter four. We are all healthy, and I believe are
about as well disposed as most families to live by our own personal
exertions.
Yours very respectfully,
WILLIAM H. BRISBANE.
_Verbatim Letter._
BOSTON MASS. Feb. 23 1844.
_Mr. Ripley_ DIR SIR I was requsted to pit the following on paper
for the consideration of your society. R. H. wife and four children the
oldest ten the youngest thre the two eldest boys, the two youngest
girles. Furniture wile consist of thre beds and bedding one bedstead
one tabel and workstand six or eight chairs crockery ware &c.
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