Mary Rotch letter to Charity Rotch, New Bedford, 5th mo 11th 1815

Mary Rotch's letter of 1815 is packed with news of home and family, 3 years into the Rotch settlement in Ohio country. We don't know what Charity Rotch wrote in her letters to Mary Rotch to stimulate such conversation. Again there are hints of Charity's discontent with settlement: Mary writes, "Thy present letter seems still to put at a distance what we had again imagined was near, and we are very sorry that your engagements are such as to render the proposed plan inpracticable tis hard, truly so to be this long so remotely separated.' 7.8" x 9.6" (19.9 by 24.5 cm