thank god I can weave and can get it to do. I could had got a place à Week agoe but It was for to be bound for 3 years the first yr I was to get five dollars & half pp Week the 2nd yr 6 dollars and the last Eight & to find my slef in evry thing, that would be doing nothing, I wrote to Elizabeth Whaley New York & I got an answer but no great encouragement. She said that the family would be very glad I would come and spend a while with them but as for getting a situation it was out of the question. I was speaking to a young man in this town an acquaintance of theirs who had just come up from N Y and he said he had stopd a fiew days with them and he says the are one of the happiest family in hew York. he says Mary Bennet and all lives 2. together and he says the have one of the largest Academies in N.Y. and that the keeps five ushers and that the is making a fortune. I understand Mary Waugh got hed about 7 Weeks passage. I have seen since I came a great many of my acquaintances. Saml Carnahan is living here from the Maze, Mr Montgommery is here that taught School at Ballinderry meeting house he is teaching. I became acquaint with across 2. with him by mere chance for I was not acquaint with him before we met here, this Country is extremely warm it is almost impossible for a person to bear there clothes on and the people here are reduced in is their flesh. the are just Skeletons of Skin and bone but extremely neat in their dress and in general very showey, I have seen no beggars here nor have I seen a man here with a hole in his coat. At least one third of the inhabitants of this town are blacks. for manners & customs I can & / say but little of as I am but a Stranger, All the letters that I had York for new York I forwarded them by post as I was not going myself, I have not much information to give you at present but I expect to have an opportunity shortly of sending another letter, the Ship that carries this letter the first that has left this for Ireland since I came or I would have wrote sooner, I expect you will write soon and let me know any particular event that has happened in the country since my departure, Remember mye love to my Uncle & Aunt Thompson & familly Aunt Singleton & family to young Arthur Richey & uncle's ge / familly To My Brother in law & sister to Jacob Murray's Familly & John Holmes & the Winddow Gill's familly & to all enquiring friends & to Henry Megarrys family. I remain yr truly N B as I have no fixt!! obedient son = of abode direct your letterto James Richey the care of Richard Green 8I North 2nd St. Philadelphia P S Since I wrote the above I have got a situation in the Western e.l country. I was engaged here by a Merchant to go down with him. he is to give me one hundred Dollars the first year and after that perhaps I may get 4 or 5 hundred just as the think me deserving, It. 7 or 8 hundred miles off this but he pays my expences there which will be about forty dollars & he is to give me board washing & lodging. it is not calld big 2c/ Wages but it is as goog as 4 hundred dollars in tow & a person will have it in there power to save more in the ing in town turn over nearly all eliminate all beginning god see