- This man wrote this letter to his wife telling her he had his land picked out. He pick the 160 acres near turkey creek. The land near them is beautiful, there are wells backed to the stream, they can keep. He also writes in his letter how a man can come this way with $500 and get property and make a good home in a few years. He also tells his wife about a 7 month old baby that he saw the child's family was building a mill but they haven't started work yet. He ends the letter with saying that he is lonely out in the west. In the P.S. h tells his wife to kiss their child for him and that he has come for a home.
- What stood out about this letter was how he talked so much about the land and how much it cost, when you would have though all it would be about was love and how much he missed them.
- The importance of writing a letter during this migration was that it let your family members know that you are still alive and well. It meant to both of them that they would be together even if it was just in spirit.
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