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This is written in Guttersbach on February 4, 1791. God's greetings! Dearly beloved brother, I have received your letter of the 20th of September of last year via Ohmstadt, and I have seen from that you and yours are well, and I am very glad about that. Regarding myself, I am, God be praised, also healthy, but my wife died seven years ago last autumn.
I have given to my oldest son my goods. He has the daughter of ___________ in Steinbach as a wife, and my daughter Ilma Barbara I had given in marriage to Johann Adam Schaeffer's son in Hexoententar but she died seven years ago when she had her first child. I also have two bachelor sons and one single daughter, all of whom are adults. Our mother died already in 1776. Our brothers and sisters were all married, and only our sister, Margaret, is still living, who married the son of Conrad Kramer, who bought the property from ______________ in Hoenentar. She has only two sons , and she is well taken care of. Sister Catherine has got into the house of (some lawyer) and has married Jacob Kramer, but both are dead already. They left one son and two daughters, all of whom have married.
Brother George Peter married the daughter of the (farm?) zo hiltusklingen, but he also died several years ago. He had three children. By the way, many of the other good friends are already gone, and those who are still with us one after the other dies. My brother-in-law, George Baezel is still quite healthy. He has given his possessions to his son. Both the son and his two daughters are married.
Our neighbor, Peter Beilin and his father are also dead. There have been many changes which I could not describe here because there is not enough space. By the way, I still want to tell you briefly that God has been very fatherly to us and has given us so much that we really do not lack anything, for which I give thanks to him. Here in Germany we now live in a very peaceful time, and it is a long time ago that we have not had any war.
The Russians are at war with the Turks and the latter one have not done very well. But this war doesn't mean anything here. The number of people in Germany is getting larger every year, and because of that the prices of goods have gone up very much. Food has become very expensive, particularly last year. The water corn had cost 9---, --- kind of corn cost 9 to 11----, and oats cost 4---- this winter, but since Whitsuntide, the two kinds of corn have gone down again in price. Even so it's still very expensive here.
Our old schoolmaster Braeme, who is still very likely, sends you many greetings. but, his brother, the innkeeper, died. My children and our sister and all good friends send you greetings and also for your wife and your children send you hundreds of good greetings and hope you are well and happy. Since, because of the great distance, we no longer will see each other in this world; therefore, we hope and wish that we will see each other in eternity. Til that time we will pray for each other and will put ourselves into the protection of the almighty. I am unto death your brother, Johann Georg, faithful and loving.