My Dear Brother often minds me that he would Prevent my haveing a Anxous thought and Indeed you do it Efectualy; my situation in Life has Taught me all Ways to live Frugaly and in that way I am contented, and tho you are at all times makeing such Ample Provision for me I do not think it Right to be Profuse; but have allways keept it in my Power to make my self comfortable and have done so, besides supling my grandaughter Jenny Mecom with most of her cloathing as she is very Atentive to me, but as the old saying is I cut my coat according to my cloath, I do not furnish her with Gee Gaus but keep her Decent I never have bought her any thing beter than a Caleco Gownd, and I bye some little nesesarys in the Famely now and then as I Pleas, But when my son Collas has where with all he Provides for the Famely very comfortably in all nesesary Articles He suplied us last year with twelve cords of wood which Lasted us till warm wether as we keept but won Fire Exept on some Extroidenary ocations but he has been so unsucksesfull as to be now Eight months out of Busnes and has spent what he had Acquiered before, that I beleve he does not know now how to git won Cord without Runing in debpt; (he is now Prepareing to go to Verginey as a sort of a Factor to some Gentilemen who Put stock into his hands to sell for them and make Returns, I hope he will make out.) I am [was] anxous however for I knew I could but Ask for some of the Princeple of which I recve the Intrest and suply all I want and wery Probably shuld have suficent for the Remander of my Life lest but your goodnes in ofering the wood makes it needles to Ask. Wood is now fourteen shillings a Cord and it will cost three shillings a cord to saw and bring in and now I will venter to tell you I wish for a Load or 2 Extroidenery to bestow on a Poor Famely who are worthy objects of charity, but if you think this is too boldly presing on your Beneficence like Puting my hand in to your Pocett to suply others wants as well as my own I will no think it hard to be Deniyed, I will tell you the Famely and the circumstances, you may Remember a man that made your stickado when you were last in Boston, and his wife who had been my son Edwards Widdow, He has had the misfourtune to be Burst; that he is not able to do the harder Part of his ocupation which you may Remember is a shop Joyner or more Properly Cabenett maker, but going out of Town in the Seage he lost all his Tools they were some how thrown over board and could not be Recovered, they lived in the country some years she keeping scool and he Jobing about till he helth grew very Inferm, and they grew very Poor, they were advised to come back to Boston I sopose for fear they should become a charge to the Town. he works Jurniwork and litle maters in other mens shops as he is able, and she has done Every kind of thing that she was able to git a liveing (and she is Ingenious and Industrious) till she grew so Decriped and Inferm that for some years she has been allmost Intierly Deprived of the use of her Lims, and they Live mostly on the charity of Friends among whome I have not been alltogether neglegent of contributing my mite, but I think ought to be but a mite without your Premishon on whos Bounty I Live.