Willington, So. Carolina, 12 June, 1833. Dear John, Yours of the 5th came to their place on Saturday last, but I was gone to Rocky river & did not get it till Monday evening. Isaac came home on Thursday the 6th, much earlier than we expected; & as he came with Mrs. Nisbet, I presume she has told you all about their journey home that he never saw Wm. Pleasants at P. Edward C.H. nor called at his uncle Johns nor did he recieve a letter from home while gone. Had you written explicitly, (or had he believed) that William would really go to Philadelphia, he would have staid [stayed] several days longer to wait for his coming; but, he says, your letter was very short, doubtful inexplicit. I have often urged perspicuity on you all, but you will not mind me. Had I known in time that Wm. was going on, I would have urged & ordered him [*Isaac*] to wait a week or fortnight there for him. I did write to him, but it was before I knew Wm. was ill. If Wm. lived to get there, I think it was probably on the day after Isaac left for home. The depressing effect it must have produced on him when he found Isaac had come away, I greatly dread indeed. I recd. a very discouraging letter about him from Dr. SamP. Heary Dickson of Charleston after he sailed. I wish Wm. had not seen him. I cannot but hope that Wm. was not as ill as he represents. I have had my heart much affected with a seeming weight & enlargement many a time myself; but distance from friends then, was my greatest source of misery & dread. Let all his friends daily pray for him (if yet alive) that God would direct & protect him sanctify his affliction to him, & bless the means he uses for his recovery of health and that he may be restored to his family & us all in due time, in health & strength & in the fulness of the blessing of the Gospel of peace! I have recd a letter from Mrs. Atkinson of the 1st inst., in which he is disturbed himself and disturbs me. He is resolved on selling Dick Newton & Juley. They are both such thieves, he cannot endure to keep them or be troubled with them. Dick has broken into the houses in the plantation several times, & carried off corn etc. To the stores I sold it, & also taken two or three of his negroes with him & taught them. They were detected, & Dick ran away & lay out a week, & also one of his ran away. He is determined to sell both of these, because he will not keep any negro that runs away from him; he sole one before he was ever married, merely because he ran away from him. He says Dick shall never be sold up the country, for that would humor him & set a bad Example to the others. He also says, Juley is worse at [P???] Dick & he does not wish to sell her without any consultation & consent. If seems Sarah is quite willing to let them both go. I am truly at a loss to know what to advise in the case. I now believe that Dick is a thief, & I presume or strongly suspect that he & Juley lived in Athens, after she was left there, in a great [mea?] by [?] pilfering & purloining. All are pretty well here. My wheat is mostly cut & will make half a crop. Many will not reach that. I must write a few lines to Wm. before I send this to Calhouns mills today. Give my love to Louisa, Martha & Moses, & tell him to be a very good boy, & I will love him powerfully. Give my love to Mr. Dearing, & tell him I should be very glad either to see his person or a letter from him, if he could spare time. Your affectionate father, M. Waddel. P.S. Mr. A. says, he has indulged Dick & July greatly in tasking them lightly, because they had not been used to the hoe. I have not seen any one from Berry hill since the 2d. when Mrs. Gray came to Meeting. I learn that her mother fixed to come but the old man forbid it. Mr Gray has not been here in a fortnight. I don't understand it. I [don] understand there is a petition up again to remove the stage route from this route & that it says Willington is nothing but some old houses. Whitten, I understand, wrote it. It seems, I am not included in the late Berry hill treaty. Be it so. Calhouns Mills 80807 12 1/2 13th June 1833 Revd. Mr. John N. Waddel. Athens, Georgia Mr. Moses W. Waddel