Lowell History: Mill Boy Letters

                                    Lowell⁴ March 25 1849 
Dear Mother 
                                    I take my pen in hand  
to reply to your letter which I should 
have done before but the store men thought 
that butter would be higher & so I thought 
it best not to hurry about writing Butter is  
worth from 15 to 20 cts pr pound we can get 
good for 18 now but it may be higher soon &  
it may be lower you did not write what you  
could get for it up there so I cant tell you whether it  
best for you to bring it down we should all  
be glad to have you come down if you  
could we are all as well as usual Matilda 
had the Scarlet fever this winter & has a 
ring worm humour all over her now which 
she does get nothing to cure it yet.  if you  
know anything that will help it I wish 
you would write down

Wm⁵ folks are well as usual 
my best respects to all of you 
                                   Geo L. French

P.S. George and I are both well and should be happy to have 
you come down and stay awhile with us

  ^{1George Lang French b: 23 Oct 1808, Pembroke, NH d:  
     19 Sep 1857; parents: William French and Hannah  
     Lang; occupation in Lowell: painter; married 1831:  
     Matilda Kimball b: abt 1815, Rumney, NH. 
  2Sarah M. French b: Jun 1835, NH d: 10 Aug 1854,  
     Lowell; parents: George French and Matilda Kimball. 
  3Hannah Lang b: 1786, Lee, NH d: 13 Mar 1872;  
     married 1802: William French b: 17 Feb 1784,  
     Greenland, NH d: 26 Aug 1845. 
  4Lowell, Massachusetts. 
  5William French b: 17 Nov 1805, Pembroke, NH d:  
     1895, Lowell; parents: William French and Hannah  
     Lang; occupation in Lowell: spinner, cotton mill;  
     married 1831: Hannah Chamberlain b: 1808 d: 1887,  
     Lowell.} 
  
  
                                   Sarah M. French. 
 

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Mrs. Hannah French 
Concord, NH