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Old Isaac Roosevelt was a member of an Auditing Committee which shortly after the close of the Revolution approved the following bill: The State of New York, to John Cape Dr. To a Dinner Given by His Excellency the Governor and Council to their Excellencies the Minnister of France and General Washington & Co. December 17th 1783.
I am well aware that most Scotch people of that date tried to say their prayers in English, but not so Janet or Robert, and not so had they taught their children. I fancy not a little unreality was thus in their case avoided. "What will you do when you are a minister?" asked Gibbie on his fingers. "Me a minnister?" echoed Donal. "Me a minnister!" he repeated.
It was well enough, for already big, gaunt, white Thomas Jefferson was in the past tense. Rebecca Mary chronicled the sad event in her diary: "Tomas Jefferson passed away at ten minutes of three this afternoon blessed are them that die in the Lord. The minnister did not get here in time. I wish I had asked him to run for he is a very good minnister and would have.
Prehaps if I was pretty like Rhoda she would call me darling and dear instead of Rebecca Mary. I dont blame her mutch because I LOOK like Rebecca Mary. "'SATURDAY. I think Sunday will be the best time to ask her, just after she gets home from meeting and has rolled her bonnet strings up, espesialy if the minnister preaches on the Lord lovething a cheerful giver. I am hopeing he will.
"'I havent desided I don't KNOW, but I think I'm going to ask Aunt Olivia to pay me 5 cents a weak. Rhoda says you call it an alowance, and I supose she knows. She is the minnister's daughter. She has 10 cents a weak unless shes bad and then she pays the minnister an alowance. He charges her 1 cent a sin and he gives it to somebody who is indignant I think Rhoda said indignant.
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