- Leman Daniel
- Wilder Joshua
- Hearsey Seth Storrs
- Curtis Nathaniel
- Piggott George
- Greenleaf E. Price
- Leman Daniel jun
r.
I rose at four, but the cloudy sky restrained me from sallying forth to
observe the rising Sun. At five, I saw a man walking to and fro in the
yard fronting my windows between the gate and the porch, without
knocking or ringing the bell at the door; and on going down found it was
Daniel Leman, the man from
Charlestown, but this time without his
wife— He came on the same business as before, in terror of
having his house taken off over his head. He remained here two hours
complaining of the hardness of his fate which was neither more nor less
than inability to pay his debts.— Mr Curtis was afterwards here
and we concluded to purchase the mortgage on the house, and leave him in
possession of the house till the expiration of his lease; leaving him in
the interval time for preparing to depart or for procuring the means of
paying his rent— Leman’s son was
here in the afternoon anxious for the relief of his father, and I
informed him of the manner, in which Mr
Curtis and I proposed to effect it— Mr Wilder and Mr Hearsey,
are a Committee of the Proprietors of the first social Library in the
South parish of Hingham; and called on me to enquire if there was not a
joint Resolution of Congress, by which that Society are entitled to
receive a copy of the diplomatic correspondence published by Congress— I
looked over the volumes of the Laws, but could find no such resolution I
promised however to make further enquiry, and if I should find they have
the right I will take care to procure the books for them— A person by
the name of George Piggott came
from Boston to make enquiry after Martha
Cumming a woman who served as cook, while I was absent,
and took a leave of absence for a week and has never returned— Piggott
says she boarded at his house, and has gone off in debt to him— She had
left her trunk here; but we did not think ourselves authorised to let
him have it— Mr E. Price Greenleaf came, and examined some of
my stocks of seedling Apple trees— This is the season for that
operation, and Mr Greenleaf usually performs
it for me. He promised to procure some buds of excellent apples, and to
come and bud the trees next Tuesday afternoon, if by that time he can
get the slips— I received this morning by the mail the Bangor Courier of
thest. of August and without one word of
comment upon it— I have expected the publication of this Letter, and
expect to be held to severe responsibility for writing it— Before my
lamp is burnt out, I am desirous that my opinions concerning the great
movement throughout the civilized world for the abolition of Slavery
should be explicitly avowed and declared— God grant that they may
contribute to the final consummation of that event— There are sundry
errors of the press, and of the manuscript to be rectified, and to which
I must attend.