Heberville Washington County April 10th, 1858 Dear Brother I sit down to write a few lines to you, hopeing that they will find your & your ^family^ all in the enjoyment of good health. we had a plesant journey to this place, and arived all in good health. we did not find the place spoken of By Br J D Lee at the Mouth of the Clarry river, to be very convenient to make a farm, on account of the Banks of the river being so high above the ...

also a Levy near the Bank of the river about forty rods long and four to five feet high. we have had the ^water^ running on our farming land some three weeks. we have planted some peas and other garden seeds some are up and look well. also some potatos and have set out over four hundred small peach Trees & about three hundred Peach seeds. we have about twenty five acres of land grabbed & Cleared, and ten acres pla[ink spot]. we have Built a log house sixteen By twenty seven feet. I supose there is about one ...