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Samuel Jackson to Sarah Jackson
Sea Song December 3d 1860
My dear Ma
You see by the caption I am up on the coast. I made my arrangements to come up this morning but was detered by bad weather but was favoured this evening with fair weather but most wretched roads. I got up just at dark finding all well. Pa went over to the city	on last satturday	week	but has not yet returned,
he expected to go up to see if he could	not make a trade with	a
gentelmen, for a place on bayou Macon, of which I spoke in a former letter. he sayed as soon as he returned he would commence packing up. we have not commenced yet. When we do commence it will not take us long, but we can not possibly be up by Chrismas, & I do not know which one of us will come. he told me he thought he would send me. Ma I have been fortunate in being able to sell my two wagons. the large one Pa gave only $75. for it in Nashville & we have used it five years and I sold it for $100.00 and a small one we have had for ten years I sold for $50. I have also sold	my sheep & hogs.	and there are two men that
come to see me a	few days ago that	were	desirus of buying the
"Williams" and "scratch [illeg] place". I am all most confident they will buy them & give as much if not more than what Pa gave. The gentelman that We expect will buy the Clifton Plantation has not been over yet. I got a letter from him a day or two a go saying his wife was taken very ill so he could not come at present. And Col Claiborne sayes he will do all in his power to sell this Place (Sea Song) and thinks he can sell it by next