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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Brother and Sister and all our relations and believe I am with great Cincerity your Loving Kinsman, [Endorsed,] By Capt. Bell. Jonas Langford To Abraham Redwood Jr. Deare Cousin Abraham Redwood, Since my last by Capt. Bell wherein I inform'd thee that I had spoke to the Governour to remit to thee the money thou wrote to him for, which he promised me he would by the next oppertunity have not had any from thee, but have heard by Capt. Browne that thou hast had a severe fitt of Sickness, but now pretty well recovered of the same, and if so with the advice of thy Father and the rest of thy friends, I would have thee come over and look into thy affairs that thou mayst have some notion how and after what manner we gett our Bread in these parts. I write thus free to thee as being one of the nearest relations I have, and would not have thee be lost as the rest of thy Brothers were in Road Island. pray make my respects acceptable to all my relations and accept the same thy self from thy Loving Kinsman. Jonas Langford Ant1gua, 1oth, March, 1726/7. [ Endorsed ] By Captain Browne. 1 Captain William Bell commanded the sloop Elizabeth and Mary, of Rhode Island, and was taken by the French off the coast of Martinico in 1727. Nna England Weekly Journal, July 10, 1727. William Hillhouse To Abraham Redwood, Jr. Antegua, July 21th, 1727. By Edwa'd Byams Esq. order I heave sent you enclosed a bill of Loading for one bag of Cotton wich came to hand after the Gouenor had got the bills of Loding for the six hhd. of Rome and had enclosed them in his Letter, therefor he desired me to send you it with an acc't. thereof which is as onder nath wich is all at present from, sur, your Most Humbell Servant To Command, Will. Hillhouse Invoise of one bag of Cotton shiped by Edw...