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 I, SOLOMON MACK, was born in Connecticut, in the town of Lime near the mouth of Connecticut River, September 26, 1735. My parents (Ebenezer and Hannah Mack,) Ebenezer Mack departed this life in 177. He went to the door to fetch in a back-log, and return- ed after a fore-stick and instantly droped down dead on the floor. You may see by this our lives are dependant on a sumpreme and independant God. Hannah Mack departed this life in 1706, with a long fit of sickness, me experienced the power of God from an early age, with all the good morals of life, and instructing the youth for about thirty years. She died rejoicing and wishing her last moments to come. Rejoicing me went home to meet her Father in the realms of eternal bliss.

My parents had a large property, and lived in good style; from various misfortunes, and the more complicated evils attendant on the depravity of the sons of men, my parents became poor, and when I was four years old, the family, then consisting of five children, were obliged to disperse and throw themselves upon the mercy of an unfeeling and evil world. I was bound out to a farmer in the neighborhood. As is too commonly the case, I was rather considered as a slave than a member of the family, and, instead of allowing me the privilege of common hospitality, and a claim to