We built a house for Maj.

Timothy Cowles, which was then the best one in Farmington.

I was not worth at this time fifty dollars in the world.
1815, the year after the war, was, probably the hardest one there has been for the last hundred years, for a young man to begin for himself.
Pork was sold for thirteen dollars per hundred, Flour at thirteen dollars per barrel; Molasses was sold for seventy-five cents per gallon, and brown Sugar at thirty-four cents per pound.

I remember buying some cotton cloth for a common shirt, for which I paid one dollar a yard, no better than can now be bought for ten cents.

I mention these things to let the young men know what a great change has taken place, and what my prospects were at that time.