PCC (Ral) to DC (Phila) 13 June 1848: "Dempsey was here on yesterday...Peter & Luke both improving. I mak Luke ride on horseback--morning & evening...Davey & his boys at work in the grove--he says getting on very well--Luke with him picking up brush."
PCC (Fairn) to DC (Phila) 29 Jun 1848: "I learn that Luke is thought to be better in Raleigh--Peter has been very ill--with disordered bowells--Jim tells me--he had a heavy feed of black berries that came near to costing him his life--Little Ned & one of the little servant girls had been very sick--"
PCC (Ral) to DC (Phila) 3 Jul 1848: "Luke & Peter from Orange yet here--the first is free from his Dropsical symptoms, but he will soon exhibit all the worst symptoms of cinsumption. Peter has been ill with disordered bowels--is better again. Old Luke says he ain't well, but he is certainly suffering from no disease--he is lazy..."
PCC (Ral) to DC 8 Jul 1848: "Luke & Peter not much changed."
Luke (b. 1848)
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