. Genealogical notes of the Carpenter family, including the autobiography, and personal reminiscences of Dr. Seymour D. Carpenter, lieutenant colonel in the war for the union. With genealogical and biographical appendix .. . thing is strange here, and as I cannot work myself,the time seems longer than to people who can work, but thisis as fine a country as was ever discovered. Your mother isjust as well contented as she was ^below, but I dare say a thou-sand things will be told you by people who know nothing, andunderstand nothing about it, who will try to give you trouble asmuch as they can.
. Genealogical notes of the Carpenter family, including the autobiography, and personal reminiscences of Dr. Seymour D. Carpenter, lieutenant colonel in the war for the union. With genealogical and biographical appendix .. . thing is strange here, and as I cannot work myself,the time seems longer than to people who can work, but thisis as fine a country as was ever discovered. Your mother isjust as well contented as she was ^below, but I dare say a thou-sand things will be told you by people who know nothing, andunderstand nothing about it, who will try to give you trouble asmuch as they can. His son, David, writes his sister, , about the same date: Father and mother would likeit right well if you would come to this country to live, and Ithink it would be better for your family. I think we have donewell to come to this country. We were offered $650 rent forthe grist and saw mill for one year. So you may know yourselfthat we have done well. I, myself, and Captain Eowland, and aj 3 o •< 3- -«-? H-OOI^ C «? 5 ^ ^ ? 2 I w _ _ O T — t- <0 r+ -^ !u —; fn r+ s^ai r+B) o O * 3 _ D. 3 ° r? S) Ul — _. ? = = ?; * 01 11 _. 75-aP I m o rD IO mCO H n> D. THE CARPENTER FAMILY. 63 a hired man, attend the mills, and we grind 150 Inishels ofwheat, and saw 1,200 feet of lumber in a day. The lumber isworth from $ to $ per hundred feet, and flour $ 100 pounds. We hear that flour sells at $ per barrelin Xew Orleans, and if that is so we shall have a good market,and wheat grows well here. These extracts show that some people abused Ohioin that day, as in later times they disparaged Illinoisand Iowa. In 1806 Samuel concluded that he wouldbuild a house commensurate with his standing and , therefore, started a brick yard, and made his own brick,while the saw mill furnished the lumber, and during the seasonhe built the house in wliich your mother was born. It was thefirst brick house built in the county, and from its pro
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