Note - this is how it appears in the copy, including the lack of punctuation, spelling, etc. I'm working on filling in the blanks! My sister's interpretation has convinced me that Herrick is not a ship, but someone's name, Mr. or M. Herrick. In the source "American Biographical History of Eminent and Self-Made Men with Portrait Illustrations on Steel, Volumes I-II," about The Reverend Charles Carroll Miller, his father Jeremiah G. Miller is identified as "Captain." We believe the family was involved in the ship building business in Maine, and are looking for documentation. Jeremiah died 9 December 1836, and Jane died 29 September 1868.
Kennebunkport September 8th 1835
Dear Wife
I had the pleasure this morning of receiving your kind letter of Sept 5 informing me that you were alive and some better than when you wrote me last, the Lord grant that you may continue to grow better until your health is restored. Altho I am surrounded with company still I am alone without you. and wish I could fly up to N. H. to night if it was consistant to wish so and spend the night with you. I hope that you may be able to ride home by the 21st for I propose if I am well to come up the last of next week which will be the 18th which will make one month since I left you there. Should this proposition suit you, you will write me to that effect as soon as you receive this. perhaps I may conclude to ___ up there two or three days and make a visit with you to Mr. Noyce(?). My health is about the same as when you saw me; our family are all well as usual. Nothing very new or strange has taken place since you left home. Sally(?) Thompson died last week. I was with her a few hours before her death she appeared very happy and resigned to die; John Wilder has lost his infant three weeks old born since you left I believe – Jonus Merrill has lost his wife died last week with consumption. Only been married one year or thereabouts. No other deaths that I know of since you left home. Our Election takes place next Monday the 14th and I shall be glad when it is over – it is very still however politic, do not rage as they did last fall. people are more taken up in land speculation. I wish you to eat beef steak and lamb for that will stimulate you and (strengthen) more than any food you can eat I know by past experience. If your bowels will bear it - I have sent you a number of papers please let me know if received Mr. Herrick has not returned yet, been gone nearly three weeks. I look for him tomorrow. Lyman came to see me between meeting last Sunday and says he should like to come home and wants to se Carroll to.
I have not anything more dear wife to write you that will be interesting. Write soon –
S.B. Tell Carroll
He must mind his
Mother and pray
for Pah (not sure of last word)
Information received following a posting to the MEYORK Newsletter at RootsWeb indicates that "Lyman" may be Isaac Lyman, the name of the minister of the church that Jeremiah and Jane attended. He also may have presided over their marriage ceremony and some of the marriages of Jeremiah's parents, siblings, aunts, and uncles. Stay tuned...
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