PLEASE NOTE: I am forwarding this information from a non-subscriber. She is not a COOLEY researcher and is not subscribed to the list, but thought the following information and/or that in the next message I send may be of interest to someone here. Karen Hall Holmes, Listowner loveistheanswer@bigfoot.com "Nunc scio quit sit amor." -Virgil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Anne Wheeler" <mwheeler1@ameritech.net> To: <Miller-L@rootsweb.com>; <Cooley-L@rootsweb.com>; <VTRUTLAN-L@rootsweb.com>; <MIHILLSD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 8:50 AM Subject: {not a subscriber} Cooley-Miller Letter, 1821 The following letter was sent from Pittsford, Michigan to Sudbury, Vermont. The original is kept at the Sudbury, VT town clerks office. Addressed: Mrs. Dorothy Miller Sudbury Text: Pittsford March 30, 1821 Dear Cousin I am favored with a conveyance of thoughts on the pale sheet to you: how excellent the invention! I hasten to inform you interesting particulars I must be concise, for the mail is waiting: The most intersing [sic] is the reformation! The Lord is at work in a wonderful manner! The most profane have become praying men. The drunkard is forsakeing [sic] his cup! The stout-hearted is brought to cry out – “God be merciful to me a sinner!” Cousin are you a sharer in this cause? Or are you more concerned to please your husband? I embrace the Saviour: & I trust the unbelieving husband will be sanctified by the believing wife! We received a letter from Sister Sarah, she wrote her anxiety to see you a husband: wrote her agreeable acquaintance thinks of returning in Autumn: Our family are well except Anna, her health is very poor: we are fearful she is in a declining state: The Doct. Say she must journey She has a great desire to visit you: I hope she will be able to go. Your mothers family are in usual health I saw the young people at meeting last eve: I care not so much about your coming to [?]. as I should if you would visit us do come if consistent! My respects to your husband with his fathers family. tell the girls we should be happy to wait on them at our house Adieu the best of friends Ruth Cooley Regards, Mary Anne Z. Wheeler Professional Genealogist Website: <http://www.ameritech.net/users/mwheeler1/home.html>