Excerpt from Extracts From Letters Written at the Time of the Occupation of Boston by the British, 1775-6
Agreeable to your desire I now acquaint you that in consequence of the Congress making an addition to their resolve respecting the poor of ye town of Boston, mj' Greenleaf who is near can certify who are such poor better than You I, as from y6 nature of his office he must know them personally, so that I apprehend we shall be sufficient without putting you to y8 trouble of attend ing for that purpose. But if your health would have admitted of it your Company wod have been very agree able we shod have expected assistance advice in the unhappy state of our oppressed now bleeding Country.
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