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be, excused of becoming my own narrator of my life, I would cheerfully comply with your request, of corresponding with you. But having been spured by your polite attention, hospitality, and good council of your friendship marked through two lines and the many presents, which I have received at different times from your Ladyship, I cannot conscientiously deny your request. Whatever may be your motives, to learn the history of my lif life, I shall state the facts, tho, it may be a catalogue of of povety, affliction disappoints & abuse from my fellow man as well as my ?baseness? & ingratitude to that Being who is my creator & bountiful benefactor.

  In my former you perceived  "The historical facts of my life" it comprised from my birth to the close of he year 1802.  I shall, therefore,