December 30, 1845

TO:  William W Sears Esq, Carthage Post Office, Moore County, NC

State of Tennesse Putnam County December 30, 1845
Dear Mother and Brother and sisters in law
I Now take my pen in hand to in form you that
we are all well at presant hoping that these few
lines may Reach you all in joying the same
Blessing WM W Sears I received you letter about
the tenth day of this Month Which gave us
Much satisfaction to hear from you all once more
Elisabeth Johnson wants to see her mother and
brother and sisters and and ? and ? very bad
we want you to come to this country very bad but
we hate to persuade you much for fear you would
not be satisfyed but I think you could doo beter here
then there if I was there I would not stay in
Moore County no longer then I could leave for
for this is a greateal healther then thare and
I can live easier and beter then there
if you ever intend to come I want you
to come next fall for land is giting high every
year and harder to come at for people moving
in here very fast for it is healthiest place
we can hear of I want you to begin in time
and move sooner in the fall then we did
and I want you to fech Lisa or louisa to live with us
for we heasnt but one girl and she is small yet but
she is a ? box and says she wants to see her
grany and lisa and she is looking for her unkle
Washington every Saterday night to come on his filly
We want to know how many children Margaret Campbell
had and how old they are and what there names
is and all about them Wm W Sears you
wanted to know whether you could git good
land here good land is very dear but you can git
as good land as your old place for fifteen cents
per acre but if you Will come and Mary some
of these tenesee girls you can git a hole track
for seventy five cents of good land Washington
Elisabeth Johnson weight is one hundred and seven
ty five or 80 William W Sears
Janeral Johnson

Janeral Johnson
I must inform you that John sears and family
was well last weak he has bought land on the
combalon mountain near his father in laws it is
About fifteen miles from where I live but in
the same county he sent me word not to write till he wou
ld come christmas but the time is past and me and
Elisabeth are going to White plains and ? wit some
to write for there is a man living by John sears
that says he could cure that cancer in Mary Ann
mouth if he node the date she was born and the
day of the month and the day of the weak he has
cured a great many eating cancers we want you to
write as soon as posible for we dont now her age
if you want to write to John sears direct your letter
to White plains Mony is scarce her now but
property is rising pork is worth 2 dollars and
fifty cents per hundred corn is worth 75 cents
per barel wheat is worth sixty cent pr bushel
salt is worth 50 cents per bushel and every
thing else is proportion steam Boters runs in six
teen mile of us and every thing is cheap her
I wrote a letter to Brother Harvill and James
and cosin hardin Johnson and I have got no ans
wer yet but I am still expecting them to
write I have bought me land but I heant
more then eleven acrs of land cleard on it yet
I tended it last season in corn seven acrs
of it was new ground and planted the last of
May and I made about two hundred and
fifty bushels of corn I have sold this season
about a thousand weight of pork and has
got eight hogs to kill yet the least of them
will weigh about one hundred and seventy
five meat and I still keep out of debt
We have a good start of catle and sheep and
if I had time I would writ a greateal more but I
come to A close by givind you short an acount
of religion there is a great miny profesions in
this country but they are very much divided there

Ther are three sort of Babtist
tow sort presberterian and Mormonites and some
saints some Methodist and there a great many of
the Christian church and if you want to now
what we believe we believe the word of God is
the only guide from earth to heaven and they
are believing of from other societies and ???
mon the priciples of the Bible Janeral Johnson
and Elisabeth Johnson wishes to be remembered
to all our relations and inquiring
friends I have wrote to cosin Lockart fry and
unkle Thomas Grimes and I have not heard how they
are doing yet I want to hear from them in the
next letter I would have end my letter but it
has set and raining so i will write on I must inform
you that I was a whig till they nomination of Clay
then I turned and about 2000 in tenesee with
me so it has become a Democrat state and whigory
is but little talked about now we have elected
A democrat governor I hear him make
make a spech they talk of trying to move
the seat of government to Nashville Tenessee
Texes will go for it and all the westin country
so I will add no more but I remain your
efectionate brother in law un til death
Janeral Johnson Elisabeth Johnson to our
Mother Levincy sears WM W sears Mary
Ann sears Catherine sears
Dear unkle William W sears I must inform
you that we have had a hard winter we have
had several snows this winter and one about thirteen
inches deep Mother wants to know who lives at
the old place where her father lived when
we left I must inform you that I have
not forgot seeing you all yet I must come to a close
David SC Johnson John AD Johnson Margaret
A Johnson when this you see remember me
David SC Johnson David SC Johnson