Roxbury. Auguſt
13th 1775
Rev.d Sir
as I have had and often been favoured with your kindneſses and good conduct towards me I think I should not Pay you the Gratitude
that I owe you if I did not mention it in my writing
Tho I do not think that ever I shall be able to Pay you or make returns
for them
Sir I can aſſure you all tho I did not mention them I have had them Still in my Mind
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as I have had some Diſſopointments in the word and am some thing Poor all that I can do is to not forget them but
remember them and hope and wiſh for your We^a^lth and Proſſperity and I think ^I^ do as far as I know my ſelf both to you and your Family I want to come and ſee you all but I cannot tell at Preſent when I can ſo I muſt
haſten and give my account where I have Lived
since since Since
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Since I left
Dartmouth I was Round about Laſt Summer and
Did not get much untell
Fowler went to
Dartmouth and then I took
the School which h
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it till sometime
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I ſent Down for my Money and I could
not get it from the
Boſton Board
ſo
I was oblige to brak
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the Account the Indians wanted me
to keep
Longer but I thought it would
not do
Then theſe
Liſting
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and I was ſo
Foolliſh as to Inliſt
myſelf in the Service and am now
att
Roxbury in one of the Hoſpital
Taking Care of the Sick and very bad
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ſeem to Chuſe me
I nothing strange
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then we have had the Bullits and
Bums flying over our Heads and the
Small Pox got amongſt us sometime
ago