pennyroyal, indian turnip, mayapple, ground cherry, sweet briar, sarsaparilla, sassafras, slippery elm, bittersweet, wild angelica, ground pea, gympson.

The orchard was just back of the garden, with numerous varieties of apples, peaches, pears, cherries, etc., and contained five acres, and on the farther side of this was preserved the cane-patch, for fishing poles, pipe stems and quills for weaving; adjoining the cane patch was the graveyard; then there was the well in one corner of the yard, with the old oaken bucket and grapevine rope to draw the water, with a pole in a fork, with weights on one end of the pole; also the spring of fresh water, some hundred yards distant, that supplied water for the family and stock also. In one of the woodland pastures was a pond of fresh water for the stock as well as fish; the other pastures were supplied with water by brooks or branches. As mentioned before, the family was maintained entirely from this little farm, doing all the work and manufacturing among themselves, and were happy and contented.

I here insert a letter written in the year 1811. The address is as follows:

				Mr. Thomas Hearne
				Delaware Little creek
				hundred..............
				Joseph Vinson Bearer
			Brother Thomas
		Dear Brother  I received your letter last
		Fall which gave me great satisfaction
		To hear from you and your family
		Dear brother I have concluded to write to
		You again to let you hear from us and
		The country. We have good crops in our
		Country this present year and we have 
		Had tolerable plenty of fruit in our
		Neighborhood but not generally through
		The country. I have lately received a 
		Letter from our brother Joseph Hearne
		Of which I never had had but very little
		Information of before since I came to 
		Kentucky and he informed me that he had
		Been in the Mississippi territory last