SeptemberCambridg the 23 1775
Dear Brother
I took this opertunity to Right unto yo to let you
kno that I am wall. I
hop that you eair
[so?]
I Desir to Bless god I never whas mor harty
for my lif I would let you kno
that theair
whas knothing
[ . . . ]
I desir to be Remembered to my father and mother
and to your wif and to all my Sistor and
to Bille and to A P
and I should be glad to heair from you all
I Cannot tell. how it will bee but
I hop that whe shall
com to Salem
But I do knot put kno
Dependance
in it for the Capten is knot
I should be glad that you would com and see me as
soon
as you can for I cannot tell when I Shall com but I
hop
that it will knot be long [though?] as
Soon as we eair seteled
I Do in tend to com by the
[leve?] of provedenec but I would knot
Have you wate for that but would have you
com and see
How wall we eair
a comadated for if you do knot com
Prity soon I am afraid that y we shall
be forsed to
leeve it wether we
com to Salem or knot for
Cornel
Putnams men eair to
com in when they com and so
forth and
I should be glad that you would send this peace of
paper to Abigal
and I should be glad to have you if you com I should be
glad if you would
get my brother friend and I should Be glad if he would mak
me a [?] a [?] I com
and I Should be g Very glad Remembor
to my Sistor and to all thaeair Childron and to all that
famaly
and soforth I Should be glad if you would Let me
kno if
wether [bets?] and
Webbor Doth hold on theair
Cort ship yet or
kno and I Do Remembor my
Compelements to hur and
to Samul also
and I have knothen mor that
is remarkubel to inform you with
I should be glad if you Remembor my Duty to my
unkel
Dekon I and I ask his parayers for me that I might
be cap
from Sin and preserve me from all Danger and if it be the will
of
the Lord that I might be rturned in
Safty to my friends a gain
and I also Do Desier your
prayrs and all the prayrs
of my friends
I wish that I could Right that theair a Reformation in the army
But instid of that theair
that to be heard that is a [?] to
mak any thinking
person for to say with the [?]
o that man would considor his
ways and
and turn unto the Lord from him theair
[ . . . ] Revolted that that men
would considor theair ways
and be [?] be [?]
for for tim to prepair for
Eternity for we may say with the [Corinthians?] that
know is the exepted
tim
Know is the Day of Salvation O that th
whe could heair the
indeairin
[Singing?] of our Deair
Redemor that he is Daly
Repeting and is Daly
invitin
of us with this inderen
Saing unto us Each on of us
Com unto me and I will
you in kno wir Cast
you of and a gain he Saieth
Com unto me all ye that
Hunger and thurst and ye shall
be [Suplyed?] for he
in viteth all to Com
in this indearing languidg Eat O my friends Drink ye Drink a Bundantly
my Beloved and O how can we sligh such
invitaeons as theairs
this is evedent
that our Blesed Redemor
Doth knot tak any
pleasor in the Deth of any
one
Juror But had Rather that thea Would turn
from theair [?]
Beleve as
and Be Saved and O that god would
open our blind eye that we might see the need the kneed
the infinit kneed
that we stand in if an intrust in that all
[Sofirant?] Saver that Died
for
us for it saied that except ye
Repent ye Shall all [likely?] perish and
I Desier
pray god to pour out this holy sperit
uppon this holl
Earmy that whe might
all as one man with one hart arise and Call
uppon our god and d
Hub can tell altho whe have
ben a [ . . . ] Peopel yet the Lord is a [mariafull?]
god and hwo can tell if we Do turn and Cry for
marcy But that he will
turn unto us and have marcy on us and
Delivor us out of all the trobels and
Dificeltes that whe Labor
under on thos that whe
hav Reason to feair
for Let us Concidor
the Lord apered for the peopell of ninavah We may wall
Supos By all intilagance
that we Can gether that he had thought to Send
grat Judgmants
uppon that
place but Let us Concidor that the Lord our god
[never Sent?] any judgmant
uppon
any peopel without theair
[ . . . ] he sent his phrophit Jonah to
worn the pepopel
of that grat City and by the warning that Jonah gave
the peopel all as on
King and peopel all a Rose
and puts on Saccloth and Sat in ashes and
Cried
maghtly unto
theair god and the Lord heaird theair cry and the Lord
whas
moved with pity and th Lord Repented him of the
[Cruelty?] that he had thought
To Do unto that grat City and he Did it
[kot?] [whall?] then
is our god the Sam god knows
that he whas then and o Deair
Brother I would to god that theair whas the
the Sam Sprit moving in our
harts that theair
whas in the peopel
above [menuned?]
and So I ever Remain your fried and Brother