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our friend. and I you remember us in the same place to accept this from your dutiful son

 I send my best love & respect to you & mother sister to   For join with me in the same, __ and remember me to all my friends __
     I am your loving son till his Death    Eleazer Williams

Thomas Williams, Esq.

PS sir you will expect me in winter as I jupare? when I left you that I should come home and I pray I shall find my two brothers be at home when I get there &c &c - -

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letter 13   To Rev Stephen West DD Mininester of the gospel in Stockbridge Mass
    Longmeadow  April 1806    Respected Rev Sir   I have been to Canada of late, and in my trvs travels? I found a connection of my parents to by the name of Rice - 

This Mr. R his grand father was taken from Sudbury, Mass and he was desirous that his son Silas Rice age 13 should come down to N Eng Pr? Rev? and have an education. he sent on with me expecting that I should bring to Longmeadow But when I came to Dalton that Rev Mr. Jenn? - Jennings? was willing to take him for the present and instruct him, and was ready to think the Berkshire Missionary Society would