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No. 163] said Court steady since my arrival and this is the first opportunity I had of writing to you — I hope therefore that you will not impute any neglect to me But ever consider me unalterably thine — My Lovely Girl, write every Opportunity to

Alexd Scammell Write to me every Opportunity.

Miss Naby Bishop.

PS — I long for the time when through you I can send my dutiful Regards to your Hond Parents by the tender Name of Father & Mother — June 23d 1777.

I congratulate you upon the Cause of your Fear being remov'd as Burgoyne is going to attack Ticonderoga & not Boston. I hope we shall be able to keep him off.
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Miss Abigail Bishop
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163. Regulation of Prices (1777) BY BENJAMIN HUNTINGTON

TAKE this Opportunity to Convey a Line which have more Leisure to Write than I had to Answer yours by John Stockwell

It is with Concern that I hear of any Difficulty you Meet with in your (Widowhood) but hope you will not Surfer among a Civil People Especially when you are able to Pay for all the Favours & Supplies you want — we Read that "the full fed Soul Loatheth the Honey Comb, when we are put to Distress for an Article for the Support of Life we know better