I take this oppertunity to write to you to informe you that I have gone into the mill and like very well. I was here one week and three days before I went into the mill to work for my board. We boord tgether. I like my boording place very well. I enjoy my health very well. I do not enjoy my mind so well as it is my desire to. I cant go to any meetings except I hire a seat therefore I have to stay home on that account.   I desire you pay that it may not be said of me when I come home that I have sold my soul for the gay vanitys of this world. Give my love to my father and tell him not to forget me and to my dear sister and to my brothers and to my grammother tell her I do not forget her and to my Aunts and to all my enquiring friends. I want that you should write to me as soon as you can and when you write to me I want that you should write to me the particulars about sister and Aunt Betsy. Dont fail writing. I bege you not to let this scrabling be seen.

Sarah Hodgdon

Mary Hodgdon
Rochester, New Hampshire.
 
  ^{1Sarah D. Hodgdon b: 1814, NH; parents Abner and Mary 
     Hodgdon; her occupation 1830: Merrimack Company, 
     weaver and later Great Falls Company, Great Falls, NH 
     now Somersworth, NH; married Dec 1845 Rochester, NH; 
     William S. Jenness b: 1815, Rochester, NH; his occupation: 
     shoemaker; residence 1850-1870: Rchester, NH.
  2Mary ---- b: 1788, NH; married Abner Hodgdon b: 1785, NH; 
     occupation farmer; residence 1850: Rochester, NH.}