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CG-NL.776.052
29 Nov 1776:22 (14/681)
Copies of two letters which were found on board the Julius
Caesar, a ship lately taken by Capt. Williams, on her
passage from London to Halifax, and carried into Boston.
To the Rev. Dr, Bagden, at Halifax, Nova Scotia,
Sir,
Where you and family are, whether in Halifax or Heaven, is
uncertain to me.
. . . [9 line discussing hardships of life at sea, &c]
Our case is not much unlike the case of the Israelites who
hung their harps upon the willows, and wept whenever they
tho't on Jerusalem--- they were tantalized by their captors
with, "come, sing us one of the songs of Zion"--- they were
in low condition, for many years could not sing, but at last
the Lord delivered them out of their distresses.
. . .
I have wrote to Dr. B and T. B but no news can I give. We
expect none from the howling wilderness, where distress has
taken up her residence to rewerd the hymn-singing fair for
all their Cromwelian virtues and human blood shed from their
emigration until now.
. . . [signed] An Enemy to Dr. Foster.
Cold-Bath Square, July 9. 1776.
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