{"id":3703,"date":"2016-05-15T22:42:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T03:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/?p=3703"},"modified":"2016-05-15T22:42:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T03:42:08","slug":"duplin-letter-1883","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/duplin-letter-1883\/","title":{"rendered":"Duplin Letter (1883)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenansville, NC, April 28<\/p>\n<p>Messr. Editors: The first copy of the Banner-Enterprise is just at hand, which I was glad to receive. \u00a0You will find enclosed $2.00 to meet my dues. \u00a0I have a fine daughter, just two days old. \u00a0Send me a fine name for her, wife is as well as could be expected.<\/p>\n<p>I have invented a cotton planter. \u00a0It is now being used by different farmers; it proves to beat any other planter sowing seed and the general belief is that it will excel any planter on the market in fixing a crop for easy cultivation. \u00a0It is entirely a different planter from any other on the market; it will let you hear from me in a month or so more.<\/p>\n<p>The Methodist Society seem to mean business down here at last. \u00a0We are going to erect a church 30&#215;50 feet (lumber) most paid for; about $30 on hand for other necessaries. \u00a0I am called on to do other work. \u00a0We have a large Sunday school down here, with a plenty of suitable studies. \u00a0Please let me hear from you. \u00a0I am ever your friend, &#8212; <strong>C. BROCK.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source: Banner-enterprise (Raleigh, NC). 3 May\u00a01883. Available at <a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenansville, NC, April 28 Messr. Editors: The first copy of the Banner-Enterprise is just at hand, which I was glad to receive. \u00a0You will find enclosed $2.00 to meet my dues. \u00a0I have a fine daughter, just two days old. \u00a0Send me a fine name for her, wife is as well as could be expected. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3298,679],"tags":[3301],"class_list":["post-3703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banner-enterprise","category-duplin","tag-brock-c"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4CY8G-XJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3704,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions\/3704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}