Lines to a frends

I now tak mi pen to rite a few
lines to let you now that I am
Well and hope that those few lines
Will find you injoying the same being
I was glad to get a paper from you
I was happy to think that you has not 
for got me. I was to your mothers 
a few days ago thay wer well then
I saw warren larst nit I told him that
I was goin to rit to you he wanted me
to rite a word for him but thay say
that he goyn to be marred soon.
I hav not seen Thomas sensence the
4 July he was goyn to prisson the next
week. David is well rite to me Marane

                       Nathl M. Marden
 
  ^{1Miriam Lindsay Marden b: 1827, North Searsport, ME d: 1852, 
     Freedom, ME; parents: John Marden and Eliza Munsey; married 
     1848: Phineas Gustavus Warren b: 19 Nov 1822, Freedom, ME 
     d: 1 Aug 1881, Unity, ME.}