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 LETTERS OF JOHN ANDREWS. 73

ceptionable of late, that the most flaming Sons among us can't bul speak well of him — for let the Selectmen or any respectable inhab- itant of town wait upon him at any hour, though he may lie ever so busy or engag'd iu company, he is always ready to attend to them as long as they please, and that with the utmost chearfulnesSi But the poor refugee councellors are oblig'd to walk the entry for hours before they can be admitted to audience — that I really believe lie despises them from his heart.

November 2Qih. Doctor Cooper gave us a funeral sermon this afternoon on the death of Thomas Gray, in the latter part of which, in relating his behaviour and sayings before his exit, he drew tears from most of his audience. As Mr. Gray's conduct through lite was unexceptionable (save in his zeal for the preservation, or good of the town, he was led to express himself rather too bitterly) so his death is greatly lamented, as a publick loss, for, take him all in all, he has left few equals behind him. He has died possess'd of about ten thousand pounds sterling, two thousand three hundred of which he has left by will to your Aunt deny Green, aud after her decease to devolve to her children: his real estate, to the value of two or three thousand, to his brother Bill Gray: live hundred sterling each to his half brothers the treasurer aud Colonel .lack-on : the like sum to be divided between his half sister Blake's children who are much in want of it : as well as the like sum to Benjamin Gray, only sur- viving son to his brother Edward: a thousand sterling to Ellis Gray and a thousand lawful money to Edward, with live hundred sterling to their sister Mrs. Cary, as also a hundred sterling to their mother, with a legacy of fifty pounds sterling to Doctor Cooper and the like sum to the poor of the Church. I forgot to mention the like sum of fifty pounds to his brother John, as a token of affection rather than an emolument to him, as he conceiv'd him to be so wealth} as not to stand in need of a larger bequeath. His brother Bill and young Ellis are left executors, who together with Ned are appointed residuary legatees.

November 21s*. The action of the Portsmouth pleasure boat or Gondalo, so long depending before the Admiralty Court, was iinally determin'd last week in favor of the claimant — when the judge declar'd that they had no right by virtue of the port Bill to stop or molest any boats carrying merchandize. &ca., within the limits of the harbour. Thus you may see how long we have been gull'd.

November 22nd. The spirited behaviour of the Eastward people in

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