Dear Cousin,

   It having ben a long time since we have heard from our friends in Spencer I take this opportunity to inform you that our healths are all verry good and should like to know how you are and as Mother has wrote once since we received any I thought I would try and see if I can get one and I want you to write me as soon as you receive this communication.  Aunt White has got a son it is a week old.  Mother has got a daughter  four months old she says that she has got so many that she don't know but she shall give up writing at all.  Tell the boys that I should like to see them.  I should like to know what you are doing.  I am at everything sometimes in the shop and sometimes in the Sawmill.  I calculate to go into the shop and learn the cabinet trade.  I should like to see you out here.  I think that I shall come down there in a year or two.  I should like to know how  Grandfather Newhall's people are and what they are all doing.  Tell Perses that I should like to see her and know what she is doing and whether she is married yet or not.   Sarah has got to be quite a girl she says she should like to come down there to our busines, it is all together better than it has ben.  Lumber that was worth five dollars a year ago is now worth eight and as to crops they are coming in good wheat is worth one dollar Hay five dollars which makes it altogether better for Lumbermen some of our heaviest farmers have got done haying and have commenced harvesting we have cut about ten tons of hay this summer but to return to our family concerns Aunt White says she should think that some of you might come out here and see us as we have so many babys that we cannot come down there, Aunt has got a pear of boys and Mother has a pear of girls she calls her last on Sarah Sofiah.  I think that you can jump in to the stage at your door and come to Albany and there take the canal and come to our door with it costing but little for I think you will like this country.  Our place is growing verry fast there is three stores one Tavern five shoeshops two sadlers two Blacksmiths Shops two Tailor Shops one waggon shop one tannery besides many other establishments and as my pen is getting rather poor I will say a few words more and stop I want you as soon as you read this to set down and write to me and tell me how all the folks are and what they are doing.  Tell Uncle Allen that I should like to see him out here for I think he would like this country better than that.  Pleas remember me to all my friends.  I yet remain your affectionate cousin

                                                                                                                                    Reuben B. Newhall

His mother Sarah [Bemis] [Newhall] Kingsbury writes:

Dear Parents, [her parents were Amasa Bemis and Nancy Dunbar]
   Reuben thinks he has written all he can think of to write and wishes me to finish his letter.  My health is better this summer than it has been for some time I have written to you since I have received one from you.  We begin to think you never received our letter or have entirely forgotten us Reuben mentions that Lucretia has got another son a week old she is getting along quite smart she has not named him yet as for myself it takes all my time to take care of my children I have one twenty two months and one one four.  I have got very good help now we have been troubled sometimes to get good help I wish some of you would write soon and let us know what you all are all about I should like to know where Persis is that she has not written.  We feel that some of you might come out here and see us Mother I suppose we may as well give up about seeing you and Father out here but I feel sometimes that I could not give it up I do not know when we shall visit you again as it would be very difficult to leave our families at present but I think we might all write of times if we cannot see each other we can hear.  Reuben has been very impatient for some time to hear from you and thought he would write and see if he can get an answer.  Mother I think I am ecuseable for not writing any more for what I have written I have done with a child at each elbow  Pleas to remember us to all our friends We want to see them all.  Lucretia and I often hope that some of our folks would come out here  but our wish does not avail us anything.  I must bring this letter to a close, wishing to hear from you soon,

I remain your                                                                                affectionate daughter,

                                                                             S. Kingsbury