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the Army." Could wish to have Your B'' Green to befriend me in this matter, but
have not acquaintance Eno' with him to write. You have my earnest wishes and
prayers for Your health and happiness, who am affectionately Yours &c.
'To M=' Leverett."
"P. S. Comp" to all Friends, &c.'
" D' Sir,
" Stephen Johnson."
" Lyme, 8'" May 1776."
" This day sen' night (happening at New London) receiv'd Your Kind Favor,
and Could have sent an Answer by the same post, but M"' L -t's indisposition
occasion'd some Embarrassment in my way— Tho't best to take some time to delibe-
rate before writing—upon deliberation think it quite as likely a lurking fever will
leave her before as at the approach of hot weather—That a Journey about the time
proposed will be more likely to be Comfortable and healthy than in hot weather— if
we have the smiles of Heaven, hope to give You no more Trouble than to convey the
inclosed to M"" L 1.— sho'* health &c. admit our proceedure, sho"' be very glad of
Your and M"' Gordon's presence on the occasion, and dare warrant it wo"* be very
agreable to my Partner ; no interesting News in this quarter—with Comp'' to M''"
Gordon I am Your oblidged affect'^ Friend and B'
Addressed
"TotheRev'^
William Gordon," at Jamaica Plains, Roxbury."
" Dear Friend,
Stephen Johnson."
"Newtown, June iS"" 1776."
"this attends you with our kind Love—we kept with you in our Imagina-
tions all along y" Journey as well as cou'd be expected in such a rocky unpleasant
'^ The chaise here referred to, having been at length purchased, and, whether "secondhand" or,
like " the deacon's masterpiece," " so built that it couldii' break daown," having brought the country-
pastor's Boston bride in safety to her new home, over the " rocky unpleasant road," became almost as
famous in Lyme as "the wonderful one-hoss shay" of our humorous poet. Long afterwards it was
spoken of as one of the wonders of the village.
" The historian Gordon before quoted from.
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