Monday 4th _______ 1847.
My dear Edward/
 I wish you in the best and
highest sense of the  word a happy new year.
This of course will not ensure your happiness, it is
tho the wish and prayer of your distant brother. As you have
seen I write on hte first Monday in the New Year.
It is now five minutes past _.o.clock A.M. I
am about 7 miles west from Winnebago Lake,
at the settlement where I preached yesterday
afternoon at 3.o.clock. It is a mild, but dull
looking morning, the ground is covered with snow
to the depth of six or eight inches, which fell
in the afternoon of new years day which _______
stormy here. I am at the house of a kind
friend, a member of our Church. He came here
last spring, but has lately sold his farm to
a a gent from the State of New York. he received
six hundred dollars about 120£ sterling. There
is 120 acres with a right to a hundred and
twenty more at a dollar + quarter an acre,
a log house, a good log stabel sheds to with
several acres broken; 12 head of cattle adn
_____, them al winter, some ___________
chickens to. The land is first rate with plenty
of timber upon it. This in England would be
very cheap. The location is moreover a very
pleasant one.
I received your kind and welcome letter
dated the 25th Nov, on Saturday last.
I have long looked for a letter from home
If I do not receive letters regularly I do not
think you forget me, only I think you forget