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every farthing, and it reduced me to poverty again in advanced age without the means of Hireing or any one to relieve our wants. Who is able or willing to bear or burden.
A few particulars which were forgotten. As I was passing through Woodstock, a number of troopers rode by in haste struck my side, my horse run and I immediately fell backwards and almost was killed, and I did not recover for a number of months. At another time I fell and broke my shoulder. At another time at Hawton, I was riding in the road a boy in making his obeisance, started my horse and I fell to the ground and was much bruised. At another time at Royalton, my hose fell and through the mercy of God my life was spared and not much hurt; at another time I fell in a fit at Tunbridge and was supported for the benefit of my foul and others; in the fall of the year 1810. in the 76th year of my age, I was taken with the Rheumatism and confined me all winter in the most extreme pain for most of the time, I under affliction and dispensation of providence, at length began to consider my ways and found myself destitute of knowledge to extreme to enquire, I thought on the best that in recorded in the 11th Chapter of Matthew and 28th to the 30th verses came to my mind. I asked my wife whether those words were in the Bible or not, she told me they were; that gave me a shock, & very uneasy I was not
