Franklin⁴ November the 14 1840

Cousin

I take my pen this eve with feelings too painful to describe to inform you of the death of my beloved brother Jeremiah. He died in Lowell the 14 th of October with the Typhus Fever. . . John is in Boston. He was married this fall.

Cousin Olive S.B.
 
  ^{1Bennett Family, Letters (1839-1846) Haverhill Public Library, 
     Haverhill, Massachusetts.  These letters appear in New England 
     Mill Village, 1790-1860, Gary Kulik, Roger Parks, Theodore Z. 
     Penn, eds., (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1982). Used by 
     permission and edited by Old Sturbridge Village.)
  2Olive Sawyer b: 1820, Canterbury, NH; parents: Jeremiah Sawyer 
     and Hepzibah Edwards; married 1838: Simeon Brown and moved to 
     Franklin, NH.
  3Cousin – Sabrina Bennett b: 18 Nov 1818 d: 22 Dec 1860, Haverhill, 
     MA; parents Richard Bennett and Ruth Edwards; married 1857: 
     Oliver Turner.
  4Franklin, New Hampshire.}