Thomas Rotch letter Kendal Stark Co. Ohio, 10 mo 28th,1815

              A-29-23
	
            	Kendal Stark Co Ohio  10 mo  28th 1815
	                  It is with much satisfaction
	that I can now inform thee, that not with
	standing the great discouragement that has att
	ended the introduction of Our flocks of  sheep to
	this country.  They have since last spinning been in 
	a flourishing condition and I presume that there
	is not to be found so large a flock in the state that
	appears to greater advantage, when the sound is given
	for their return from the planes to the Fold it is
	diverting to see, not only the Lambs, but even the
	old ones, skip and play discovering the height of en
        =joyment having grass that suits them,  I have expended
        about $300 in Seed  of different Grasses besides the labour
        of sowing etc that I have no fears of a scarcity of pasture
        after this, let their increase be as great as it may, and
        if the Winter provision should prove sufficient I shall
        hereafter have an adequate supply for them except some
        variation in the seasons more unfavourable than any
        that I have known.  I last year wintered One hundred
        of the poorest here, which with proper care so gained as
        to exceed any in this part of the Country in the spring,
        the Ewes that were Old enough had Fifty Lambs five of
        which died two deformed one premature & one by an infla
			one overlaid
        =mation  after an insicion^  the others we raised but this
        was very different success from those where they were
        placed out.  In consequence of which the Flock became
        the last year & the year before very much reduced and
        we have got up again to the number brot Out-