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first                                    2ly soon

We are bound to provide for our own house. After my Settlem^t

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my father Phill. was uneasie about his Sallary, and told me y^t y^s

Town was not able to keep two Ministers. 3ly. I was Informed

not long after my Ordination, That a chiefe man then in Town

(viz Cap^t Phil: Nelson) declared in a Town Meeting, that y^e

Town could not maintaine two Ministers, and proposed to

                      4ly

let one of them go. and I found my own Salary very

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scanty while we were two together. fifty & three pounds

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was my whole allowance (w^th my Wood) by y^e year; five of w^ch

was yearly taken off for Parsonage Lands y^t I Improved

so I had but fourty eight pounds in Graine p^r annum, for

sundry years after I had a family. not long before my

father Phill: decease, the Town added seven pounds to

my Sallary, so made it sixty in Grain, which in those times

was allw counted a third at least Inferiour to money.

finally

also I was Informed when y^e above s^d things ab^t calling

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another Minister, were in agitation, that it was said

amongst Some, y^t I must take what the Town would give

me. I thot it needfull therefore to know before hand a

little about the matter to prevent uneasinesses

after wards. but as is above specified, nothing could

be obtaind. now let any Indifferent persons Judge

how this Donation came to be forfeited, & layes to y^e College

            Postscript

 The Reason of my Secreting M^r Brow[n]s Letter

(mention^d in the above Record) was, because the

Condition of holding s^d Donation, was almost

Expir’^d, so that there was then no time to apply

to any body else; Therefore if y^e Town had known

before s^d Town-meeting was over that he would

not come, They might have counted it a sufficient

Ground to Act nothing about the case: Therefore

I kept the knowledge of it from them, till s^d meeting

was past; yet nothing was done about it, tho

they knew not but he might come –––––– ––––

and did know y^t they could go to no other