Letter from Albert B Griffin to his son Charles

   

                                                  Albert Bailey Griffin Letter

                                                                                                                                        

                                                                                       Kanarra,  Iron Co.  Feb. 23, 1895

Charles I received your letter 4 or 5 days ago was glad to hear from you but sorra to hear you had poor health.  I hope you will recover and get well, I think I will get over thear this next summer some time.  My health is verry good, sleep good eat good wont work only when I am a mind to-get verray little money. Loucern hay varry light last year wheat good and potatoes verra little.

    I was born and you was in Essex Chittendon Co. your mother was born in Colchester Chittendon Co. joining Essex on the west.  Colchester lays on Lake Champlain joining Burlington City and Essx to.  Your mothers grandfarths folks ware quakers their names ware Austin I never saw them I guess you have got her fathers & mothers name and brothers and sisters name they are all dead except without it is Artemetio she moved I hear to Indiana.  I got a letter from my only brother Catty Harrison he is a cripple with rumatism 82 years old, my sister Lois Rosetta Hunt lives in Essex verry por health.  Electa Celina my youngest Sister lives in Nabraska whare a number of Counties have lost their crops and have to be helpt or suffer.  Sylvia Fuller and husband both dead they lived in Esex.  Henry Griffin your cousin was here two years ago he remembered you he staid two weeks went round to Calaforna, went back sold out, went back and bought and is there now –he is some 4 or 5 years older than you.  Has Earnest got home   how are all the Boys and Girls hope they are well and doing well, hoping this will find you and all well.  A B Griffin 86 the last day of this month.

O I wrote for you to put in a claim for Indian claim I dint hear from you wheather you did or not so I pit in one another firm for fear you had not  if you have, let me know I think it will come some time, the Whitmores have receives 22 thousand dollars I hear.  Please write soon.  I have wrote this without spects.

                                                                                A B Griffin

    I have got my room in the north east corner of my house plastered and papered and a sove and bed, sleep here nights.

                                                    So good bye

                                                             A B G

Copy of a letter sent by our Great Grandfather, Albert Bailey Griffin,  to his son Charles Emerson Griffin.  Spelling is his own.  I tried to follow exactly.