"If you wish to have any purchased I will do it for you, only let me know the quantity you wish to have.Cattle have been as low as 4 pence or 5 pence in the spring.It is uncertain what the price may be, but Isee no prospect of them being very high, as there is great plenty of cattle in the country.Should you want any in the spring you can rely on my doing the best in my power to serve you.
"Remain your most humble servant, "WM.TRUEMAN."Mr.Bryne had been in Westmoreland that summer and purchased a drove of cattle and sheep, which were shipped on June 28th, as noted previously.
On April 25th, 1811, Mrs.Keillor, Mrs.Trueman's mother, who had been living at Prospect since 1806, died.Her husband, Thomas Keillor, a stonemason by trade, died some years earlier.There is at Prospect a copy of a power of attorney given by Mrs.Keillor to her "trusty friend," Stephen Emmerson, to act for her in collecting rents and selling claims in Skelton, England, in connection with the property owned by her late husband.
This document was copied by Amos Botsford and witnessed by Wm.Botsford and Henry Chapman, jun., and dated Oct.30th, 1810.
Mrs.Keillor was buried on the old farm at Fowler's Hill beside her husband in a small burying-ground that was formerly surrounded by a stone wall, part of which is still standing.
Mrs.Keillor's maiden name was Mary Thomson.She and two other married sisters--Jane, the wife of John Carter, and Ann, the wife of William Trueman--came with the Yorkshire emigration.These sisters left one brother at least in England, as the letter following, in reply to one received from George Thomson, will show:
"PROSPECT, March 29th, 1811.
"DEAR UNCLE AND AUNT,--Received your welcome letter of March 29th, and was glad to hear from you and of your wellfare, and hoping these lines will find you and yours enjoying the same blessings of health and happiness.
"I have to tell you of the death of my mother-in-law.She departed this life April 22nd.Your sister Jane is very well at present.