Letter to Daniel Clement, July 29 1831

From a J. Preston, who seems to be a lawyer or other legal representative. The letter describes a dispute over a crop of 100 bushels of rye possibly worth $1000.

New Ipswich, July 29 1831

Dear Sir

I have been quite busy since you was here and have therefore neglected to write to you till this time. You affairs go on without any other trouble than hard names & hard words from Warren except that he has taken the Rye on your premise and put it into his unreadable one day when Abram was out of town. He says he owns it, & that Glidden & Lawrence told him to take it. I am satisfied that he has no title to it and I have also consulted Mr. Farley, and he thinks as I do. I have thoughts of unreadable the Rye or sue him for unreadable but this would be involving you in a suit. I thought I would write to you first.
I wish you to inform me whether you will let him keep the Rye without trying to secure it or whether you would have him sued for it. Mr. Farley, as well as I, think there is little doubt but that you will recover it of him. Please to twite and direct me what course to pursue as soon as you can. I did not tender to Warren anything for his demand against you, as I came to the conclusion that he would be ashamed to sue you. Other people think so too. Lawrence has not sued the unreadable age and I do not think he will. I saw him and he said he should like $1000 of it soon. I told him when the time was out for redeeming it, if Warren did not redeem, you would pay him what he wanted & I think he is satisfied. Abram has let the pastures & plough land unreadable several words, and I think looks well to your interest but Warren calls him very hard names but that does not trouble him. There was probably about a hundred bushels of Rye.

Yours respectfully

J. Preston