The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.

I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise.

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.

There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.

My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron

Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing.