"I have set my hands to get out some timber this winter.I think about 150 tons of yellow pine and 50 of hackmatack, if the sledding continues three weeks longer.My crop of grain on my new farm did not answer my expectations, a great part of it was struck with the rust.I suppose Iwill get on the whole 16 acres something more than 100 bushels of grain, viz., wheat, buckwheat and rye.I have since exchanged it for an old farm (and pay 170 pounds) situate one mile below Matthew Fenwick's, formerly owned by Benj.Kierstead.It cuts 30 tons of English hay.The buildings are in tolerable repair.Susan Freeze talks of coming to see you shortly.Through the mercy of God I and wife and family are all as well as common.
"Dear children, from your loving father.
"SAMUEL FREEZE."
"MR.THOMPSON TRUEMAN, Westmoreland:
"You will please accept of our love and impart it to our children and friends.
"If, hereafter, you have beef to sell, and wish to take advantage of the St.John market, let me know, and I will get a butcher's letter what he will do, and if that suits, you can drive your cattle, but Idid not get your letter in time to get an answer and send it back to you by the first of March.
"S.F."
A son of Samuel Freeze was sheriff of the county of King's, N.B., for a quarter of a century, and a grandson is at present acting as deputy sheriff in that county.
Polly Freeze left her home in Sussex to take care of her grandmother in Point de Bute, and was married there.She had visited her before, making the journey of eighty miles on horseback, in company with a friend.A great part of the way was through the woods, with no road but a bridle-path for the horses.
Thompson brought his bride to Prospect on the 11th of March, 1823.The marriage certificate reads:
"I hereby certify that Thompson Trueman, Bachelor, and Mary Freeze, Spinster, both of Point de Bute, co'ty of Westmoreland, were married by license this eleventh day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three by me,"CHRIS'N MILNER, Missionary at Sackville.