Dear Friends in Pennsylvania,

    After waiting a great long while to get a letter from you I set down to let you no that we are all well as common and to inquire what the trouble is that I don’t get a letter from you. Have you wrote and I don’t get them or don’t you right attall. If that is the case I want you to rite and let me no which one of the boys has offended you and I will sea to him or it may be it is the old man if that is the case let me no and I will tend tend to him and if nobody has struck you and you are all sound or anything rite and let us no. I answered your last letter that I got from you.

   David has ben oft to the war service then sometime in July he said he sent you a letter while he was to Philadelphia. Has come halme now for good. He has got his discharge and pay. His health is better than it was when he went away the last time. There are a great many listed and gone to the war a round here. Mostly boys and young married men. Some has got kild some wounded, some sick, some run away, some got their discharge and come holme, Some there yet.  Do not think of only one Kild that you new that is George Hawley. He was shot in the neck. He never spoke a word after he was shot. Jacob Coon’s, Frances, stood on one side of him and Henry Hawley his brother the other side. When he fell they took him up and carried him a tent close by and staid with a few minutes. The rebels was hard on them and they had to leave him. They buried him after the Battle and so it goes or so goes the horrors of the war.

    I suppose you would like to no about matters and things. John Cambell is somewhere west. I expect to get a letter from him soon.  He calculates to winter some where west. His children are around here and are well and going to school. They are all smart children as you can some up. The youngest boy is going to make a great stout man if he lives and has good luck. Emma runs up tall. Heneretta is built like her mother and looks like her some.  Johnny lives here at present. He is about common size and smart. Emma was 13 years old on the 31st day of September.

   Heneretta was 14 years old the 14th day of October. Johnny was 7 years old the third day of October. Neal Cambell was six years old the third day of December.

    Harvey you had better set them down . It may be some use to you on them. I would like to sea you and Marina and the children. I wrote to you in my last letter to rite your childrens age and names by notation and I want to no where to send to George. Give my love to Daniel Coon and family and to all my other friends.

    How is mama Coal. How does spinnet.
 Ualism go with you out there.

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Wm Coon     Dorcas Coon