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Shall inform you of the Prossedings from Time to Time as we have New occurencys. mean Time I am Sir yr very Humble Servt Israel Putnam. N.B. The Throop of Horse is not Expected to come on till further notice. Sir. Being in hast and cannot write Disire a copy of this to be transmitted to Governor Trumble. A true copy, Ebenezer Williams. Pomfret, April 22, 1775.
"I am yr obdt hble srvt "Abraham Skinner" "New York June 9th 1782
Hu Gadarn in the Gwlad yr Haf or summer country, a certain region of the East, perhaps the Crimea, which seems to be a modification of Cumria, taught the Cumry the arts of civilised life, to build comfortable houses, to sow grain and reap, to tame the buffalo and the bison, and turn their mighty strength to profitable account, to construct boats with wicker and the skins of animals, to drain pools and morasses, to cut down forests, cultivate the vine and encourage bees, make wine and mead, frame lutes and fifes and play upon them, compose rhymes and verses, fuse minerals and form them into various instruments and weapons, and to move in masses against their enemies, and finally when the summer country became over-populated led an immense multitude of his countrymen across many lands to Britain, a country of forests, in which bears, wolves, and bisons wandered, and of morasses and pools full of dreadful efync or crocodiles, a country inhabited only by a few savage Gauls, but which shortly after the arrival of Hu and his people became a smiling region, forests being thinned, bears and wolves hunted down, efync annihilated, bulls and bisons tamed, corn planted and pleasant cottages erected.
'They expect a Prince who will take advice, and rule according to law, and not one that thinks his will is sufficient. Charles replied as follows: Prince to Stouf. 'March 6, 1754. 'I received yours tother day and am sory to find by it yr Bad State of Health.
It is addressed to Ambrose Philips, and there is no doubt that he went where he was bidden, and found the illustrious Joseph all ready to receive him at a well-furnished table. "Tuesday Night. "Sir, "If you are at leisure for an hour, your company will be a great obligation to "Yr. most humble sev't. "J. Addison. "Fountain Tavern."
Their characters are such that perhaps three more likely Men could not be found in the Kingdom for the Hellish Purpose mentioned in the Letter. As the Particulars are many and the Affair of such Importance I beg to see you punctually at six this evening when I will be alone to receive you and am, Sir, "Yr. most obed; "humble servant "He Ffielding. "Bow Street. Nov. 25. 1750."
"In Cumraeg?" "Yes, sir, in Cumraeg. I can read Saxon a little but not sufficient to understand a Saxon newspaper." "What newspaper do you read?" "I read, sir, Yr Amserau." "Is that a good newspaper?" "Very good, sir, it is written by good men." "Who are they?" "They are our ministers, sir." "Of what religion are you?" "A Calvinistic Methodist, sir." "Why are you of the Methodist religion?"
Simeon Potter, master of a Rhode Island slaver about the same time, was instructed by his owners: "Make yr Cheaf Trade with The Blacks and little or none with the white people if possible to be avoided. Worter yr Rum as much as possible and sell as much by the short mesuer as you can." And again: "Order them in the Bots to worter thear Rum, as the proof will Rise by the Rum Standing in ye Son."
To the General Court which met October 18, 1659, the following petition was presented: "The humble petition of John Prescot of Lancaster humblye Sheweth, That whereas yr petitioner about nine or ten yeares since, was desired by the late hon'red Governour Mr. Winthrop, w'th other Magistrates, as also by Mr. Wilson of Boston, Mr.
Soon after I came to a village near to a rocky gully. On inquiring the name of the village, I was told it was Llan yr Afon, or the church of the river. I passed on; the country was neither grand nor pretty it exhibited a kind of wildness, however, which did not fail to interest me there were stones, rocks and furze in abundance.
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