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It reports the birth of a second child, naming Willemina, describes the night-time delivery and household thanksgiving, and explains shared living arrangements with the minister and the Lankheet family. 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To give God,our Creator &\"Well-Doer,the honor is our wish.cWe are writing tolet you know that you may rejoice with us that God hasgiven our household &your family another child -a beau-tifully formed child -&that your name may be rememberedin a foreign land we have named her W1llemina(named afterthe baby¹s grandmother,Mrs.Gerrit John Rutgers,neeWillemina Kroeze).The birth was quite easy &my wife isthankful to God.The baby was born in the night betweenDec.29 &Dec 30.(Died summer of 1848)My wife woke meat 3:00 o¹clock in the morning;I lit the lamp,l1t afire in the stove,straightened the bed a little,thenwent to wake the dominee(minister)&his wife.Theywere just here when the baby was here too.We got DienaLankheet,who dressed the baby;my wife was very well,she drank a cup of coffee &she was so happy in the Lordfor His merciful help &thankful to God that she requested  \nthat we sing a verse of Psalm l18.I love the Lord asyou have seen from from my first letter.We -theLankheets,the dominee &family(Rev.Seine Bolks)&weare living under one roof in one house together.The daybefore the baby was born my wife had baked a nice loaf ofraisin(currant)bread,with the last raisins we hadbrought along from the Neth.  We bake white bread herefor ourselves.  We have a good life here,better than weever had in the Neth.But we did have a good 1ife theretoo.Here no one uses bran to bake bread,it is used forhorses &pigs.  Through God's goodness our family is heal-thy&wel1,my wife 1s especially strong.She goes intothe kitchen &bakes pancakes again.Our little Willeminai8 a very good baby,but cannot eas them yet,but ourGerritaina gladly eats the leftovers.Coffee 1s good here&not expensive,for 9 American cents we receive a poundof chicory(coffee?).The families of dominee and ofLankheet are also very wel1.Lefert Slotmen 1s very sick(died Feb.23,1848)&Gerrit Jan Brouwer,from Den Ham,is also sick.They have the illness that was so prevalent1n Ee1lendoorm for a year or so already.More of our Dutchpeople had this illness too.The doctor says that if theNew York officials had realized this we would not havebeen allowed to enter the country.G.J.Immink isne!t welleither,and the ladies of Boers &of Den Ham &the wivesof the farmers.  As far as I know all the others are well.  \nSome days it 1s very cold here,but we did have awarm journey overseas.It freezes harder here than in theNeth.-it xxxxx文gxx had frozen hard for eight days,but the weather here 1s very changeable -1t is thawingnow again-the weather 1s subject to sudden changes -  \nsometimes suddenly we get such warm weather that 1s un-heard of in the Neth.  They tell us that sometimes muchsnow falls here.Approximately one foot of snow is onthe ground now.They say that it gets warmer here in thesummer than in Holland.  People here love snow,they hitchtheir horses to the sleigh &proceed in an unbelieveableway -then it is dangerous for to go in the middle of thestreets.  People here sometimes Just go riding on a sleighfor pleasure -they use sleighs for many purposes -s omesleighs are beautiful carriages with silver decorationssome have four gray horses,some are huge sleighs whicharrive with wood going to market,&gome with hay &straw&seed &fat hogs -yes,they do everything with theirsleighs.When there is snow,then no one us","cbCain1qr2Ha6u1U","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCain1qr2Ha6u1U","pdf",19931150,34,"English","# Family letter from Syracuse\n## Birth and household news\n## Health and community illness\n## Winter life, travel, and daily routines\n## Streets, sidewalks, and work (firewood)","[{\"question\":\"Who wrote this letter and who was it addressed to?\",\"answer\":\"It was written by Gerrit Hendrik Veldhuis to his loved ones in awe/the Rutgers in the Netherlands.\"},{\"question\":\"What important event does the letter describe?\",\"answer\":\"It describes the birth of their household’s new child, Willemina, including that the birth was quite easy and was followed by thanksgiving.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the writer say about winter conditions and transportation in Syracuse?\",\"answer\":\"The writer notes severe cold, frequent weather changes, heavy snow, and that people use sleighs for many purposes while wagons are avoided when snow covers the ground.\"}]","Syracuse Jan. 15, 1848 - 2nd letter | PDF",1789639681,52]