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   ʻ It is with inexpreible pleaure and atisfaction I acquaint you, that my enquiries after the friends and relations of that gentleman, have not been fruitles, but have met with the deired ucces. The minute account he entertains you with, of his family and kindred, is ju : For by enquiring I have found his father’s name to be the ame which you mention, who has been dead many years. His mother’s name is as you have wrote it, who is ill alive ; and whom I had the pleaure of eeing. But the bowels of maternal affection, in truth do I declare it, eem ready to bur ; and break forth in tears of joy, like, when he heard that his beloved on was yet alive. The joy is kindled, on the occaion, in expectation of eeing once more the fruit of her loins, before he with her grey hairs goes to the grave, throws her into extacies, reembling Jacob’s : And in raptures he breaks forth and ays, ʻIt is enough ! My on is yet alive ! I hope, by God's bleing, to ee him before I die !’ His uncle is called by the ame name mentioned in your favor. In hort, every circumance is agreeable to the decription given me in your letter.  ʻ A great peronage of his family, whoe name is Oforee, and now enjoys his father’s eate, deires, with great importunity, that I would earnely petition you that he may be returned to them, as oon as may be ; and promies that nothing hall be wanting to make him, and all about him, comfortable and happy, among his own kindred. And the whole family unanimouly join in requeing me to render you all the grateful acknowledgements and thanks they are able to return, for your paternal care and affection exercied towards him ; and beg me to tell you, that as it is not in their power to requite you for all your trouble, they therefore hope that the good God of Heaven will recompence you hereafter, for your labor of love beowed on him.’  In a letter of a later date, he writes in the following manner.  ʻ The mother is ill looking with impatience for the return of her on, once dead and lo. She, and the principal couin, who poees the eate of his father, join