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PG-P.737.039
27 Oct-3 Nov 1737:12 (464)
The following letter is said to have been sent from a person
settled in New-York, to his Countrymen, to encourage them to
come over thither: . . .
A Letter from James Murray. . . to Baptist Boyd, the
Reverend Minister of the Gospel, in the Parish of Aughelow
[Ireland] . . . [1 column, with instructions of what to
bring when they come.] fetch whapsaws here, and hatchets,
and augers and axes, and spades, and shovels, and bibles,
and hammers, and Psalm bukes, and pots, and seafaring bukes,
. . . [10 lines] There is a great wheen of the native folks
of this country turn'd Christians, and will sing the psalms
bonily, and appear to be religious, that gee the ministers
plenty of skins for his steepend, and he gets siller plenty
for the skins again; . . .
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