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Plymouth April 8th 1873

Dear father, yours of 5th
is at hand, and I with hast [haste] will ancer [answer]: You speak of a small Sain [Seine] that Col, Wynn is going to fish, I would like to be in the pul [pull] very much, and it may be that I will, though I hav [have] Just receivd [received] a note from the Pla man Pat Winston, offering me a Good Price to take crarg [charge] of Hopewell Fishery, the Season out, and I shal [shall] go over to day [today] (Tuesday) to See him and if we a-gree [agree] I will lay holt [hold] with him the Season, and if I dont [don't] I will cum [come] up their [there] Friday night, to be in that fishing party, that you speak [spoke] of, and if I dont [don't] cum [come] at the time appointed, you ma [may] kno [know] that I am tryin [trying] Hopewell, The Sound seems to be full of fish Just now and the fisherman is takeing [taking] all that they can Save, and fish is getting cheap a bout [about] $2 1/2 per Thousand I hear of them being offerd [offered] green, the little Sains [Seines] on Ronoak [Roanoke] is makein [making] regerly [regularly] from 5 to 10000 at a hawl [haul] so I am inform [informed], as to

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my moveing [moving] up to your place I cannot giv [give] a posittive [positive] ancer [answer] until I hear from Mr. Reddic a bout [about] the Mill I wrote him the popersition [proposition] that you an [and] I though [thought] best, if I get that mill to work I shal [shall] move back to to Hearford [Hertford], if not a Mill I dont [don't] think that I will, I will let you hear from me when I hear from the mill again, In close you will find sum [some] green tea seeds, tel [tell] Ann to plant them in a good place in the garden, and stick slakes [stakes] around to keep the Chickens from them, this leavs [leaves] us all well while I remain your Son

C.W. Askew