To Mrs. Anna Beamer                                           Directed to the Care of
Township of Grimsby                                            Mr. Samuel Green Miller
Lincoln County Upper                      at the Forty Mile Creek
Canada Near the Forty
Mile Creek Nyagara

Dear and Loving Consort when these few lines Come to your hand they are 
to inform you that I Am At this time in good Health and have Been so
Ever Since I left you thanks Be the Great and Allmighty Giver of all
Goodness for his Sparing Mercies and Infinite Goodness and I still Trust
under his Protection you Enjoy the Same Blessed favour which God Grant it
May   You are likely Prepared to hear the Melancholy News of the Death of
My Mother    She Departed this Life the 13th day of October And the News Met
me at Phillipsburg the 10th Day after I left you    Her Death has caused
Me much more Business than I was aware of   I just visited our Brothers and
Sisters but So Short is two Days Among them   they were intolerable then
and I expect to see Some of them again Shortly   I held a Vendue here the
28th Day of November But there is Much to Be done here and I Can Not tell
when I shall Get Ready to come home As yet   But it will Be As Soon As God
Pleases who alone Can Direct and Guide on ways At All times   Distance
Prevents me from having A Personal Enterview with you tho my mind is Much
troubled About your Welfare   If you have Any opertunity to write and send
me Some Account of the Affairs of the family Either here or to Philip
Trillers it would Give me Great Satisfaction   I do Almost steal the time
I Am Writing And Am taking Every measure to Return As Soon As Possible But
it will Not be Shortly   I Add Nothing More But Love And Effection to you
And All Enquiring friends

                         John Beamer Junior

Bethleham December ye 1st A.D. 1804

To Mrs. Anna Beamer

N.B.   Susanna Wilson is in this Neighborhood A Disconsolate Widow with
two Children    I have Sold the old homestead to James Ekman