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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt:...the sickness in New York; it was the same as here three years since; some hundreds died and many left the town for several weeks, soas to those that went and came back, (from Boston, ) the place seemed almost desolate."--L. " Samuel Carpenter is thus mentioned in a letter of his friend, Isaac Norris, dated 1705: " This honest and valuable man, whose industry and improvements have been the stock whereon much of the labors and successes of this country have been grafted, is now weary of it all, and resolved (I think prudently) to wind up and clear his incumbrances; he has sold some good pennyworths, as his dwelling-house by David Lloyd's and the Coffee House, likewise the scales (the house south-east corner of Walnut and Front Streets); is out of trade; lives at his plantation, and intends to sell off more." His plantation was T. Fairman were of credit with the people, he might help thee: he has capacity, but not what he thinks. I must refer the management of him to thee. He most basely injured me when here by his suggestions to the purchasers as he confessed at parting, though he denied it on board the Canterbury, and in righteousness owes me reparation, which he has promised me, and I have no scruple of conscience that it be made me at their cost, that made him their tool for my abuse and hardship. I send a letter at the company's request, about their land, and except half of Gilbert's, I think they will submit for the rest--and that is under consideration too. T. F.'s brother's wife is a little sharp upon him to me, and waits for an afternoon at her house upon that subject. I am sorry all his papers will be ineffectual, for they are gone to France, for though a correspondence is not yet closed, I hear nothing of my...