Typed copy. The inhabitants of the land in the Ohio Territory around the Symmes' are busy making maple sugar. It is "very pretty looking sugar, tho I can't be reconciled to the taste; we give from 15d. to a quarr. of a doll. pr. pd. according to its quality." Because too many conveniences would have to be sacrificed to have a house on a very beautiful site directly on the Ohio River, the Symmes's h ave decided to build on land which has a view of both the Ohio and Miami Rivers, and of timbered hills. A level grove is to become a garden-courtyard. The house is to have eight rooms and an adjoining kitchen. In a kind of run-away wedding last November, Susan's step-daughter Nancy was married to Captain William Henry Harrison [son of Benjamin Harrison]. Mr. Symmes objected to the match because Harrison was "breed to no business." Susan herself finds Mr. Harrison "a sensible, accomplished I believe worthy young man."
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United States--History--Constitutional period, 1789-1809; Jay, John, 1745-1829