Kegatank 12th Dec. 1805
Dear Charles
By my Neighbour John Laws letters from Henrietta and Sarah were received last Tuesday morning, dated the 6th Current, by which we had the pleasure to learn you were each well in health and satisfactorily settled in your late purchased house1 which I understand is a very excellent and convenient establishment and which I pray God you both may long enjoy in happiness; The period must be near at hand, when my dear daughter will encounter a scene, which altho it be the ordinance of Natures God, non the less it is but too apt to appear more awfull than the protecting care providence towards all his works is found to supply. For my own part encouraged by Ideas in the powerfull resources of Nature, to perform its offices to all with whom it has to do. I have heretofore enjoyed the encourageing belief that Sarah's Mother would be preserved in three or four Trialls more threating I trust her daughter will ever suffer. These were owing to Indispositions preceeding her confinement, the remembrance of which, added to my child's good health and the trust I place in her fathers God. I cherish a faithfull hope That she will do well and See cause to humbly praise and bless divine care manifested towards her. We shall look with much anxiety every port day to hear from you till this event be past.
In my last I mentioned my intention of giving you the impressions of my mind on the Subject of my contemplated removal, but
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