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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
