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as It was Late I Recd your Leter, If you Desire
I Should Get those things, when I Shall
hear from you I will Get them,
with all Dispatch, you Sent your Compliments to
Brother Parker Joyner Gore, James Shed and
Mr Leaver which are all Dead Excepting
Mr Shed I think It was the year the Tea
was Destroyed that you wintered at my house
and you Said it would Coust Newingland [New England]
Dear, and I think It has old Ingland [England]
Two

Sir I Remain your True and
Loving friend Joseph Curtis

PS The Inclosd Letter
was Wrote By
          my Son Joseph