cam_JonathanBassett_B017_F009_001C

1 dollar it tacks [takes] a good deal of money to
liv [live] hear [here] & not liv [live] verey [very] well at that
1 dollar will go as far in mane [Maine] as twenty
will hear [here] We hav [have] had six feet of sno [snow] on
the mountains last weak [week] Sinos ses [says] that he
has sene [seen] it 10 feet deap [deep] on the landon the
mountains The best of the rane [rain] is in march [March]
then every thing [everything] is over floe [overflow] sno [snow] laes [lays] on the
mountains hear [here] the year round is our sno [snow] in
September we hav [have] had som [some] frost & cold wether [weather]
& som [som] ice but it is warm & raney [rainy] heare [here] now
it looks like fall to home the leavs [leaves] felling [falling]
from the trease [trees] & the lone her it is rather hard
to kepe [keep] a good fire heare [here] for we hav [have] no hard
wood imiss [I miss] the wood pile & te [the] pies & the eggs
& the mills & the aples [apples] & the corn but other things we
hav [have] flower [flour] potatoes pork beaf [beef] onions molases [molasses]
cofey [coffee] tea shugar [sugar] rice beans buter [butter] the most
at the time but the other fixens [fixins] we let
go but we can git [get] every thng [everything] that we want
in town for 1 dollar per meal bord [board] & logins [lodgings]
in town cost 18 doll per weak [week] for a single man
it has cost us from 5 to 9 dollars pr weak [week]
apeas [apiece] to bord [board] ouer selves [ourselves] this somer [summer] & it will
cost about the same this winter i [I] think &
we havent [haven't] had eney [any] green frutes [fruits] this sumer [summer] of
of eney [any] kind plenty of provisions but it takes
money to by [buy] it tell Ezra to do the best he can for me &
him self [himself] & the famly [family] & kep [keep] things strate [strsight] & think