To Mrs
Mary Elizabeth Beamer
Hunterdon County   New Jersey
Near Jugtown

Honoured Mother    It is Now A year past Since I have left you and have
had no other Account from you but that of Mr. Stuarts letter as I
mentioned in my last letter by Mr. Woolverton    I can but think it is
for the want of Convenient opertunitys of send then    I now write to 
you by Mr. Farnsworth who says if Circumstances will Admit he will Call
at your house and deliver you my letter and if he does he can give you
considerable Satisfaction About Several things that you may ask him as
State of health and have been this Season thanks be the Great Giver of
all Goodness for his sparing Mercies    Hoping these few lines may find
you the happy and blessed state of health I would wish to hear from
you every opertunity    How you are and how you fare with those about
yu and who they are if there is any change    We have had a very severe
winter and longest I ever Remember and the Spring very Backward and
frost almost every night to the middle of May    So no more at Present 
but Remaining your ever Dutiful Children till Death

                              John Beamer
                                         and
                              Anna Beamer

forty Mile Creek
June ye 1st A.D. 1799

(On back of this letter:  I desire to be remembered to all my old 
Neighbors and Acquaintances Especially My old friend Daniel fliet
and family.)