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NYWJ.749.001
2 Jan 1749:11,12 (785)
Friend Zenger, As thou art a young beginner, and a
publisher of good things, I have thought meet, to send thee
the following peace from my habitation, (tho' distant) which
I believe will be pleasing to many of thy good readers. I
am thy friend,___.
To the author of the sayings in the New York Gazettes (so
called) No. 309, and No. 310. Concerning Bumpers.
It rejoiceth us much that thou hast set thy self to reform
the carnal-minded in New York, respecting that ungodly
practice of adding drunkenness unto thirst, by drinking wine
in those unscriptural measures called bumpers. . . [2
columns. Near the end:] I tell thee that unless thou art as
empty as thine own carnal reason, as a trumpet, or as a
ram's horn, thou will surely be a reprobate. . . [17 lines,
signed] Hezekiah Broadrim.
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