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Rh home, made an application to Capt. Adams who in gratitude to the memory of my father, whoe services he, failed not to repreent to the Governor, peedily promoted him to his pot my Mother and I uffered exceedingly by his udden yet honourable fate in the field: for my Brother Was then too young and thoughtles, to pay any great attention to our ituation.

I was about eleven years old when deprived of my father, and though children are eldom poeed of much enibility or reflection at uch immature years, yet I recollect well no incident of my life ever made o deep an impreion on my mind. Nothing could wear from my