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His estate to be divided into 17 shares, of which 10 shares are to be divided equally between his sons, Samuel, Thomas and Aaron, and 7 shares to be divided among his daughters, Mary, Hannah and Elizabeth. In the event of his wife giving birth to another child, the boys and girls to contribute one share each, [two in all], from their share of the estate, for said child.
Executors: "dearly beloved wife Elizabeth, his brother, Jon™ Forman, brother-in-law, Daniel Seabrook, and trusty friend, Elisha Lawrence.
Witnesses: James Tapscott, Wm Maddock, John Chasey, [his mark], and George Danser. Elisha Lawrence refused to act as executor; the others qualified.
The will was well drawn.
Lib. D., of Wills, p. 241, Trenton, N. J.
Issue
35 Dr. Aaron Forman; settled in Hunterdon County, N. J .; married Ann, daughter of John and Sarah (Lawrence) Emley. His great-grand-daughter is Mrs. John Moses, of Trenton, N. J.
36 Samuel Forman*
37 Thomas Forman§t
38 Ezekial Forman; posthumous child.}
39 Mary Forman
40 Hannah Forman
41 Elizabeth Forman
*Samuel Forman remained in Monmouth County, N. J., and married Helena Denyse.
§Thomas Forman married his second cousin, Jane Throckmorton, born 1750. They moved to Kentucky, in 1789, where they became wealthy and influential.
Issue Mary Forman; married Mr. Alexander Ezekial Forman; married Dolly Wood. Issue
Thomas Seabrook Forman, born, in Madison County, Ky., Nov. 9, 1808; died, in Louisville, Ky., June 24, 1849.
(Footnotes continued on page 236.)
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9 SEABROOK, son of James Seabrook, 3, married Eleanor McDowell, of Shrews- bury. She was born in 1713. The authority for this marriage is James Steen, Esq., of Eatontown, N. J. It is well to note here that Andrew McDowell married a daughter of Daniel and Mary Seabrook in the next generation.
The following reference is to one of the name, but it may not refer to the McDowells, of Shrewsbury:
April 9, 1719.
Wm. Leveridge Sr., Vintor, formerly of Albany, N. Y., deceased, feltmaker, lived at Richmond County, N. Y., and also at Perth Amboy, N. J. He had children, viz:
Wm. Leveridge and Mary, his wife.
Hannah Leveridge
Temperance Leveridge, wife of Wm. Van Urden.
Margaret Leveridge, wife of Alexander Mack Dowall, Mariner, of Somerset County.
There is some confusion in this transcript, probably from Perth Amboy Records, as to the occupations and residences of Wm. Leveridge.
11 THOMAS SEABROOK, son of Daniel Seabrook, 4, died, Feb. 22, 1805, [Stillwell Bible says: Mch. I], aged 67 years, 11 months and 25 days; married Martha Tallman, who died July 14, 1828.
1761. Thomas Seabrook was assessed, in Middletown, £o-14-5, and £2-4-3.
1765. Thomas Seabrook was Overseer of Highways, Middletown, N. J.
1767. Mr. Thomas Seabrook was an Overseer of the Poor, Middletown, N. J.
1769 He was Commissioner and Arbitrator for the town.
1771. He was a Commissioner.
1789, '90, '91, '92, and '93. He was a Commissioner of Appeals.
1799. Major Thomas Seabrook was Moderator and Judge of Elections.
1801. He was Commissioner of Appeals, Moderator, Judge of Elections and Assessor.
1802. He was Judge of Elections.
1803. He was Presiding Officer of the Town Meeting and Judge of Elections. He was Major of First Regiment, Monmouth County.
+Mrs. Isaac Weatherby, of Trenton, N. J., is a great-grand-daughter of Thomas Forman.
#From the Autobiography of Charles Biddle-Vice president of the Supreme Executive Council, of Pennsylvania, 1745- 1821, [1883]:
After having been a prisoner, & exchanged, Captain Biddle was en route, through New Jersey-when the following passage occurs:
"When we came near the tavern at Woodbridge,-I heard a very stout man that was walking the piazza, say-in a loud voice-'I'll be d-d-if any man shall search Captain Biddle's baggage'-Looking at him, -I found it was Ezekiel Furman -an old friend that served his time to a merchant at Philadelphia .- With Furman, I had been acquainted when boys-& in our boyish expeditions, -he always headed us .- (It was not General E. Furman-him, I did not know). Although I had nothing to be taken,-I was very glad to see Furman & to find him the same honest fellow he had ever been .- Some of those in the wagon ahead of us-had told him I was in the wagon. coming up, -& he waited to see me .- If the people here had any in- tention of searching us,-they could not have done it .- Furman was hrave, as he was stout, & had several friends-& none in the wagon would have suffered a search without resistance. I was very sorry to hear from Furman, that he had been unfor- tunate, & much more so-to hear since, that his misfortunes had made him intemperate.
He married a Miss Wikoff of a respectable family .- Taking leave of this good fellow-we arrived safe in Philadelphia." p. 166.
"In August this year, [1812], I went to Long Branch .- At Edentown-near the Branch, I heard that my old friend-Captain Furman-lived there, (the person who was at Woodbridge-& swore that none of my luggage should be searched .- When I came . in A nice a prisoner from New York.)-When he came to the tavern, I knew him immediately-although it was upwards of thirty-one years 16) since we had met .- He did not know me-but when I told him, who it was, that was conversing with him, he was greatly re- joiced to see me .- Agreeably to his promise he came the next day to the Branch to see me .- He is a very hale, hearty man-& rode down on a race horse, which he mounted & managed with great ease .- He has a large respectable family .- Upon some dis- gust he joined the British Army & being taken in arms-would have suffered an ignominious death, but for his relation General Furman-& some powerful friends .- He told me that after the war-he lived near Frankford, & a report of some of his friends -that he could beat any man in America, had occasioned him many severe battles. It appeared to me, that few men,-now- could beat him.
He has a small pension from the British government to which government he is warmly attached-and has as much hatred to the French as man in America."
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1776, Apr. 5. Return of pay and subsistences due Captain Henry Waddle's Company of Grenadiers, in Ist battalion N. Jersey Militia, commanded by Major Thomas Seabrook, from the time they began their march. Original in New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, N. J. 1776, Nov. 27. Lieut-Colonel in Col. Read's Battalion, State Troops.
1776, Nov. 28. Lieut-Colonel in First Regiment, Monmouth County.
1777, June 6. Lieut-Colonel in First Regiment, Monmouth County ; resigned Apr. 18, 1778. 1779, '80 and '81. He was a Member of the General Assembly from Monmouth County; also a member of many local patriotic committees-one that demanded retaliation for the murder of Capt. Huddy, and also signed the General Articles of Retaliation, in 1778.
Barber and Howe, p. 372.
To Thomas Sebrook Esq' at Trenton or any other of the reprefentives for the County of Monmouth
Freehold September 26- 1780
To the Honoribel the Legiflature of the State of New Jerfey.
Whereas in and by an act of the general affembly of the Said State pafed in the Month of June in the year of our Lord one thoufand and Seven hundred and Seventy Seven The Subfcriber together with three other Citizens of the County of Monmouth wheare appointed commitioners for takeing Charge of the forfited Eftates in the County of Monmouth And wheareas the Subfcriber hath faithfully Served in the said office from the said appointment till this Time, but finding the execution of the Said office attending with so many difficulties and Inconveniencies that he cannot confiftant with his own honor or conveniency continue in the Said office any longer beg Leave to refign the Said office and do accordingly refign the Said office and pray that this refignation may be accepted by your honoribel Houfe
from your humbel Servent JACOB WIKOFF
The old house, (built by Thomas Whitlock in all probability), had a cannon ball shot through a clap board in the roof, during the Revolutionary War, which they can still show.
When the Hessians visited and plundered it, they left, setting it on fire after cutting the well ropes, but a negress, too aged to flee with the others, was smoked out of her hiding place, and with good presence of mind extinguished the commencing blaze, by overturning the wash tubs, which had been set with the clothes to soak. On another occasion, the silver was saved by hurriedly throwing it behind the asparagus bush which filled the big chimney place. I have one of these spoons which was the property of Dr. Stephen Tallman, and another is with the Hill family at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. Another piece, a silver tankard, was seized and put in the capacious hanging pocket, on the person of the Major's daughter, Patty (Vandevere), who courageously followed up the Hessians, constantly protesting against the theft of the beds, mirrors, etc., and the lid of the tankard giving an occasional click, kept her mother in a constant fright for fear of its discovery. The house itself was saved by the understanding that the day it burned, so would the Taylor [Tory] house in Middletown village.
The following account of one of the depredations is in my possession:
Thomas Seabrook was Robed June the 16th 1777 By George Taylor, Late Colo1. & others the following things, Vis- -
To Io hames seposed to way 20 lb Each - - at 1 /6
£15: 0:
0
To I Hogsed Cyder of the first Qullety Seposed to Contain 31/2 barels at 40/ pr barel
7.
o.
O
To my wifes Sues & hir Silver buckels
2. 15.
O
To I Shurt 30/ to 2 pare Stokens 20/
2. IO.
O
To I pare mens Sues & walking Cane
I. o.
To I Shift I hankerchef & I aporn
I. 8.
O
To I lamb & I weather
I. 15.
O
To I pare Shepe Shers
o. 8.
0
£31. 16. o
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May 21st I was not at home until the evening when it was told by my father Edward Taylor had been cutting some of his shore fence. I went soon after & counted the rails & post cut & found 22 rails, splices cut & 9 post cut & split.
May 25, '99 my father sent for me to come to the house & informed me that James Kelsey told him that Edward Taylor was cutting our fence again & told me to tell sd Taylor to not make unnecessary waste. I went in company with James Kelsey & when we came to the fence Edward Taylor was by the cut fence with his axe in his hand. Upon our coming to him a conversation began between me & said Taylor about the fence & land. I told Taylor it was poor business. Taylor acknowledged he had cut 20 or 30 Pannel & he would be damned if it was put up again; he the sd Taylor would cut down as much or more & that he had money enough; could have as much money as he could carry & that he would spend the last six pence. at the last cutting fence I found 44 cedar rails cut in two & 28 splices cut of & 23 posts cut & split.
1786. Thomas Seabrook sued James Holmes for a bill of £170.
1786, May 20. W™ Livingston, Governor, appointed Thomas Seabrook, Guardian of Jacob, son of Jacob Covenhoven, late of Monmouth County.
Tombstones in Fairview Cemetery, Middletown, N. J .:
Maj. Thos Seabrook died, Feb. 22, 1805, aged 67 years, 11 months and 25 days. Martha Seabrook, his wife, died, July 14, 1828, aged 89 years and 2 months.
These stones originally stood in a lot just East of the lane leading from the Highway, in Middletown village, to the residence of the late Charles I. Hendrickson, Esq., and about one hundred and fifty feet from his front door. They were removed by the Hendricksons, which was the cause of a disturbance between the two families. The location of this cemetery raises the question whether this may not have been one of the homestead sites of the Seabrooks.
1800, Mch. 25. Will of Thomas Seabrook, of Middletown, Monmouth County, N. J .; proved by the only surviving executor, Thomas Seabrook, Mch. 19, 1805, mentioned:
"to my beloved Wife, Martha Seabrook, all my plate, the use of the Northeast room & the choice of one rume up stars to Dwell in during her Widowhood; also a chest of Drawers, two of the best beds, with a set of curtains, two Bolsturs, fore pillurs, six linning shets, Eaight wollen blancets and three Coverleds, two bedsteads, all of the first choice, six of the best chears, shovel & tongs, the brase handirons, the choice of two looking Glafses, two of the best tables, one Tea Kettle & all the Tea Tacklen & half the puter & one half of the Table linning & towells & a Negro woman to wate on hir when she is wanted, and a Hansome, Decent Living found her as longe as she remanes my Widow or continues to live with my son Thomas, But if my said wife should chuse to quit the house where we now live, I give hir in lue of hir two Rumes & Bord, . . . . a Negrow wench caled Esabel & Exclusive of all other gifts ..... sixty dollars a year to be paid her, yearly, by my Executors, ..... which ..... shall be in Liew of her Doury or power of thirds"
"to my son, Stephen Seabrook, all that tract of Land and Meadow whereon he now dwells, formerly Thomas Thorn's, also forty-two Acres & seventy-six hundrets of an Acre of Pine land, lying in the Town- ship of Dover, ...... , also the one half of my Preportion or Right of Propriete, also one half of the Cedar Swamp or swamp formerly Anthony Dennis's, also all my part of the Ore resarved by my Father & Mother in Brown's bog".
"to my Daughter, Martha Vanderveer, & my Daughter, Hannah Stillwell, the sum of Five hundred dollars, each, to be paid out of my Estate, in four Equal payments, the first payment in one year after my Decease and the Remandur Early"
"to my grand daughter, Catherine Crawford, the sum of Fifteen dollurs over & above what I have already Given hir Mother, to be paid hir ..... when she arrives at the age of Eaighteen"
"to my son, Thomas Seabrook, all the plantation whereon I now Dwell, at Shoulharbur, with all the meadow lots thaireunto belonging, Also the place formerly Jonathan Stout's, lying at Mounten hill, the Equel Half of all my propriety Rights, the one Equal Half of all my Cedar swamps, formerly Anthony Dennes's, also fifty-six Acres of pine land, laying in Dover & to the Southard of the pine land given to my son, Stephen. .. .. . ; Also One hundred and forty-three Acres of pine land, laying in the above township & tow the Westerd of Stephen Seabrook's (one hundred acres). .....; also one acre at Muskets Cove landing; Also all my Negros (Ex- cept as matturs may be surcumstanced with a Gift or lent of one wench to my wife) and also all the Remaining part of my Estate . namely: my Household furniture, all my Stock of Every Kind, my vessel, all my Farming Utensels . And ..... in Kace my Wife, Martha Seabrook, should take the thirds of my land,
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according to law, ..... all that of my Estate heretofore Given to my sd Wife, unto my son, Thomas Sea- brook, and all Lagefes to be stopt during the time my wife holds hir thirds & after hir deth or giving up hir [share] of my landed property, the lagetees to be paid theair Lageses in the same Rotation".
Executors: son, Thomas Seabrook, and Aaron Longstreet.
Witnesses: Cornelia Dennis, Nicholas Willson and Benjamin Bennet.
Recorded in Book A of Wills, p. 76, Freehold, N. J.
1815, July I. Will of Martha Seabrook, of Middletown, County of Monmouth, N. J .; no date of proof, mentioned:
"to my grand daughter, Julia Stillwell, my best bed field bedstead and set of curtains, with the following articles of beding, one of the best coverlids, four [of] the best sheets, two pair of the best pillow cases, also the following articles of my wareing Apparel, six of my best Gowns, two Dimety petticoats and four of my best petticoats, six of my best handkerchiefs, eight pair of the best Stockings, four Silk Shawls, two Cotten Shawls, six of the best shifts, sattin cloak and tipet, also my Tea tackling, Shovel and Tongs, And Irons, Table, two large silver spoons and Trunck".
"to my grand daughters, Mariah Seabrook and Anne Seabrook, (Daughters of my son, Stephen), all the Remainder of my wareing Apparel, to be Divided, equal, between them."
"to my grand daughter, Mary Seabrook, (the daughter of my son, Thomas), my Looking Glass."
"to my grand daughter, Martha Seabrook, (Daughter of my son, Thomas), my Chest of Drawers.
"to my son, Stephen Seabrook, my other bed and beding, together with all the Remainder of my estate." Executor: Friend, James Frost.
No witnesses' names appear, neither does the will appear to have been signed.
1818, Oct. 24. Will of Martha Seabrook, of Middletown, County of Monmouth, N. J .; no date of proof, mentioned:
"unto my son, Stephen Seabrook, the equal half of the money that I may have on hand or that may be due to me at the time of my Decease; Also my Cloth cloak."
"Unto my son, Thomas SeaBrook, I give nothing, he having nearly all the Estate of Thomas Sea- Brook, Decd.
"Unto my Daughter, Hannah, . . ... the other equal half of the money that I may have on hand or that may be due to me at the time of my Decease; also one Bed and all my Bedding, excepting only such articles as will be hereafter specified in the bequest to Julia Stillwell. Two Silver Table Spoons, all my Tea Spoons and a Satin Cloak."
"Unto my Grand daughter, Julia Stillwell, ..... my best Bed, Bolster & Pillows, Field Bedsted-cur- tains and Bed Quilt and to choose from among my bedding, two coverlids, five Woolin Blankets, Six Linen Sheets and three pair of Pillow Cases, also from among my wearing apparel, a Double Gown, and to choose four frocks, four Petticoats, Six shifts & eight pair [of] Stockings; Also the Chest of Drawers, a Wooden chest and a silver Table Spoon."
"Unto Martha, the daughter of Thomas SeaBrook, . my trunk."
"Unto Delia Ann Stillwell a Silver table Spoon."
"Unto Mariah Ann, the Daughter of Stephen SeaBrook,
. my tables, crockery-ware, tongs & shovel, andiron."
"All my wearing apparel and other property not already disposd of ..... unto my three grandaughters, and to be equally divided between them, that is to Maria SeaBrook & Ann SeaBrook, daughters of Stephen Seabrook, and Delia Ann Stillwell, the daughter of Hannah Stillwell."
Executors: James Frost, Esq', and John Patterson, Esq.
Witnesses: Benjamin R. Robson and John S. Conger.
The testator signed this will in full.
Issue
42 Stephen Seabrook, born, probably, between 1759 and 1764.
43 Thomas Seabrook, born 1771.
44 Hannah Seabrook, born 1772.
45 Mary Seabrook
46 Martha Seabrook
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12 DANIEL SEABROOK, son of Daniel Seabrook, 4, had a license to marry Mary, daughter of John and Mercy [Mary?] (Longstreet) Little, June 21, 1759. She was born Apr. 5, 1739, and died between 1800 and 1805. He followed his brother, Nicholas Brown Seabrook, to Portsmouth, Va., when he sold his land in Middletown, Monmouth County, N. J., to his brother, Thomas Seabrook, May 1, 1767. He remained at Portsmouth until after the birth of his youngest child, James, when he removed to North Carolina, where he seems to have settled in Hyde County, as his sons were living on Smith's Creek and News River, near Germanton, in 1823. He died before his youngest son, James, was nine years of age. Upon the death of her father, John Little, which occurred shortly before Feb. 4, 1785, Mary (Little) Seabrook returned to Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, N. J., for her share of his property, bringing with her, her two youngest children, Elizabeth and James. She died while at Shrewsbury, and these two children were brought up by their uncle, Major Theophilus Little.
1761. Daniel Seabrook was assessed, in Middletown, £o-7-6 and £1-6-1.
1763, May 13. Middletown. Note of Daniel Seabrook, for £407:15:0, to Thomas Seabrook, "Lite Jersey Money," at 8/ per ounce, with lawful interest until paid. Witnesses: William Crawford and Nicholas Brown Seabrook.
1764. Daniel Seabrook was assessed for the Poor Rate, at Shrewsbury, £o-15-22.
1765, May I, [April]. Daniel Seabrook, of Middletown, sold to Peter Knott, of Shrews- bury, for £260, proc. money, the plantation whereon he was living, supposed to contain two hundred and twenty acres, excepting & reserving out of the same, forty acres at the South end of the tract adjoining D' Jaquish.
1767, May I. Middletown, N. J. Daniel Seabrook sold to Thomas Seabrook, of the same place, for the sum of £2-10-0 sterling, that piece of ground, in Middletown, lying to the westward of Willson's burying ground, being within the lot of land at present Belonging to Richª Jaquish, &c., &c.
1767, May 16. Daniel Seabrook, yeoman, of Shrewsbury, was sued by Thomas Seabrook for a note of £815-10-0, given May 5, 1764, at Freehold, to secure a debt of £407-15-o, payable at the end of one year. Judgment was taken in Court, at the City of Burlington, by Thomas Seabrook, and the money was to be delivered by the Sheriff to the Court, at the City of Amboy.
1767, Nov. 10. Daniel Seabrook was sued for a bill of £129, by Thomas Stevens.
In 1782, he is mentioned in his brother's letter.
In 1794, he and his wife were living.
Letter from Thomas Seabrook,.of Smith's Creek, North Carolina, to his brother,*1 James Seabrook, of Lambertville, N. J. Post-marked: "Germanton, July 16, 1823. Postage 25 cts."
The original, from which this is copied, is in possession of the daughter of James, Miss Elizabeth Seabrook, of Lambertville, N. J.
"Smiths Creek, July the 11th 1823.
Dear Brother: this is in answer to yours of the 25th of August 1820 wich is the last Letter of yours that I have not answered the causes of wich was maney, at first ill health and maney others followed in-that you Complain (and verrey Justly) of my not being Regular in my correspondence to you. thear is several reasons you ought to consider-you are not stationary but moving from place to place and no knowing whear to find you-I could say as Dane Swift said to Lord Bolingbroke it is not writing to you but at you. Continue my Dear James to write and that often. Remember you are the younger & that I was your nurs, you have had Children and have nurst them and can form an idea of the tender feeling and attachment these Little Offices beget Independant of the tyse of Bloud, which I think between you and me is as strong as between aney Brothers, my ill health and Perplexitys in buifnefs if the Sole cause of not writing oftener, write to me
*1Miss Elizabeth Seabrook, daughter of James, says her father, in 1823, was living in a small house on his father-in-law's (John Lambert), farm, whence he removed to Lambertville, N. J., Apr. 1, 1824, and where she, (Miss Seabrook), was born Apr. 30, 1824. John Lambert's farm was in Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, N. J., about three miles back of Lambertville.
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as Long as I live & when I die I shall give orders for you to be informed of that event-of my Self and famely. my helth is verry precarious-at this time I am allmost Confined to the House of that most Dangerous the Liver Complaint but I flatter Myself that I am geting better the fever has Abated & the pain has Allmost but I am Verging to an old man. I have the Rumatics most all the time and deefness which is a verry unsosial Complaint espesially for me that is so fonde of convers with my fellow man. I had my Ears hurt 15 or 20 years Since by the Bursting of a gun which causes the deefnefs but it is not so bad but I can hear when aney one raises thear Voice a Little above the comon tone-My Wifes helth is Rather wors than mine. She has had Risings in her head and Runing from her nose Seven or Eight years and for more than two years past has been afflicted with inflamatry Sore Eyes occtioned by the Risings in her head as we believe-as no apli- cation that we can find by Applying to the best Medical Ade we have has yet Given Relef.
Betsey Herron my Wife's daughter was married Last January two years to a worthy man by the name of Nathan Jennett-but Lost him in five months to a day from thear marriage-and no child-but he was a Widower and had a Daughter of ten years old. Betsey and her Daughter-in-law now both Lives with me Betsey is Tolerable helthy at this time.
James Seabrook is a Stout young man and not Married and Lives with us. I see by yours to Daniel Seabrook that he has informed you of his mothers deth (but that I had done some time agoe) & his Fathers Marriage. you seem to be a Little surprised at Brother Daniels marrying at his time of Life, what will you think when you hear he has a child & married an old woman that had been Married twise before to young men and neaver had a child before. Brother Daniel lives on News River & Quite Remote from me. he had three of his sons with and about him-Abner-Esau & Benj [?] his son John Lives in this County & his Daughter Ann & is married & had 3 Living Children. she married a man by the name of William Swindle- you say to Daniel (and I know it is ment for me from what you say before) that you and your wife is going in August to Shrewsbury & Shole harber to see ower Relations thear-when you return write me & write me particular of ower Friends & Relations thear. I should like to hear something of Ben Jackson and Uncle Thops*1 & his famely the Last you have said of him is that he had Lost his wife & Lived with his son Tobias. uncle Connelly & famely*2 I wish to hear from-your Last information says Aunt was Dead & he has married to or three years & his Dauter was married & Lived in Great Stile but did not say if theay had children or not & what his two sons are doing-in yours of the 17th of Jany. 1818 you say that Mr James Rinds only son and only child now Living is in the Pensilvania Hospital in a state of mental derangement-let me know is this the only Surviving Grand Child of Uncle Nicholas Seabrooks*3-the Last knowledge I have of Cousin John Seabrook ** he had an incresing famely. Remember me to Aunt Hanah*5 & to Sister Merriam .* 6 I remain you[r] Eaver loving Brother
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