"DEAR COUSINS,--
"I received two letters from you in the course of the last year, and am exceeding glad to hear from you and that you do well and are well, and tho I have long delayed writing yet it is not want of respect, but it was long before I could have any certain inteligence from Mr.Swinburn, So I now take the oppertunity to let you know how I and my Sisters are situate.I married Helling the daughter of Richard Barr, by whom I have had 3 boys and 2 girls all liveing and healthfull.Aylsy is married to John the son of James Boyes and lives at Woolhousecroft, has no children.Sally is married to John Cossins and lives at Hawnby where Robt.Barker lived.She has 3 children the two last were twins they were born about Candlemas last and one of them is a very weakly child, my mother is married to old Rich'd Barr my wife's father and lives at Huntington nigh York.I think we most of us live pretty well.Mr.-----has advanced his land a great deal but since the peace the times are pretty good we have this summer a very plentiful crop and we have a fine season for Reaping the same, but in the beginning of haytime we had an excessive flood as almost ever was known so that much hay was swept away and much more sanded.Many bridges were washed down and in some places much chattle drowned.My cousin John Garbut is married to James Boyes' widow and lives at Helm house.So I shall conclude with my and my wife's duty to my unkle and aunt and our kind love to you and your wife and children and subscribe ourselves your very affectionate cousins, "JOHN AND HELLING TRUEMAN."There was no break in the family by death until 1797.That year William Trueman, sen., died, aged seventy-seven years, twenty-two of which he had spent in America.The Mauger farm, his first purchase, was left to Harmon, his eldest grandson.The family of his son William had grown by this time to six sons and two daughters, and success financially, in some measure at least, had been achieved.