Letter addressed to Mrs. Analaticia Johnson
Northcarolina Pitt County
Bensboro
Chestnut Bluff Tennessee September 5th, 1837

Dear Sister and fammerly after a long Delay We Take the opportunity of addressing you by letter to inform you that we are all injoying of reasonable health at preseant thanks be to a god for his mercies hoping these lines will arive Safe to you and find you and fammerly injoying the like _____. Dear Sister tho I have long neglected to rite to you I have often thout of you and shold be glad to See you but as I have no prospect that I ever Shall See you again in this life. I Shold be glad you wold Rite to me and let me no how you do and all your children as we cant meet together as we ust to do we Shold be glad glad to hear from you every opportunity Times Seams to be dul in the country and money Scarce our corps is only common we had a prospect of the likelist crops of corn when we laid by our crops that I ever have Seam in this country but the druth had cut our crops Short we hant had a Season to wet the ground from the Second Sunday in July until now we have Rain and appears that we Shall have a plenty we shall make a plenty of corn and to Spare the State of religion is full with us tho I think it Seams that the prospect is better than it has bean the people Seams to pay a better attention to preaching and Seam to be more affected under the word than they have been tho not no Revivall among us. I have only baptised one in thwelve months that was Minisa Williams I baptised hear the Second Sunday in last month but I hope the lord will Revive his work among us and else where for I long to See Sion prosper and flurish until there will be none left on earth to advocate the cause of Sin Oh Dear Sister I long listened to hear of your Coming over to the lords Side and Joining his church on earth but I have never heard the good news of a prodigal Returned to his farthers house and can it be posable that I never Shall hear of your Joyning his people marching to canaana happy land I hope not but I hope that when you Rite to me that I shall hear that you have become a pilgram and have taken up the cross and are on your march lionwards for I no that itme is Short with you as well as me and if you will prepare to meet me after death in a better world than this where ever meet to ______ but heaven will ring with praise for dying love and Redeeming grace may the lord prepare us a montian on high and inable us to meet at his right hand is my prayer for Christ Sak I must inform you Robert Johnson wife has bean verry Sick but is getting well faster than child has bean verry like to dy but has got over it Sickness nearly but it has the palsy in one Side of it and have lost the use of one hand and one leg and foor and I fear it allways will be a cripple fare well dear Sister and fammerly my wife and children Joynes me in love to you All

Cornelius Johnson
Abeilla Johnson