| Description | Has apparently retired from a farming life. Writes in the 3rd person. Acknowledges receipt of the gift "to Sarah Hannah [her daughter] of the likeness of her respected ancestors". News and enquiries about friends and relations, and about local events : one Samuel Benyon has at last had a son, after 3 daughters, and this has occasioned festivities...."a tree was planted yesterday upon the occasion - when of course the Tenants must have planty of Ale to Help prop it up"! |