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A letter to the author of the pamphlet called An answer [sic] to the…A letter to the author of the pamphlet called An answeer [sic] to the…
A letter to the author of the pamphlet called An answer [sic] to the Hampshire narrative. : [Three lines from Proverbs]A letter to the author of the pamphlet called An answeer [sic] to the Hampshire narrative. : [Three lines from Proverbs]
Boston: : s.n., Printed in the year 1737
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
In Page 18, you charge Mr. Williams of Long-Meadow with being the Means that the Contents of the Reverend Dr. Colman's Letter, was spread about Springfield before it reached where it was directed. How did you know that it was before it had reached where it was directed? Have you not ventured positively to assert this before the World on mere Conjecture? For what is asserted is contrary to Fact, for the Letter was sent from Brookfield to the Rev. Mr. Williams of Hatfield, to whom it was directed, by his Daughter, and reached to him the same Day that Mr. Williams of Long-Meadow got Home himself.
In Page 18, you charge Mr. Williams of Long-Meadow with being the Means that the Contents of the Reverend Dr. Colman's Letter, was spread about Springfield before it reach'd where it was directed. How did you know that it was before it had reach'd where it was directed? Have you not ventur'd positively to assert this before the World on meer Conjecture? For what is asserted is contrary to Fact, for the Letter was sent from Brookfield to the Rev. Mr. Williams of Hatfield, to whom it was directed, by his Daughter, and reach'd to him the same Day that Mr. Williams of Long-Meadow got Home himself.
Again, 'Tis there represented as tho' the Author of that Letter had written to Mr. Williams, manifesting his Dislike of letting the Contents of that Letter be known; which is quite wrong. The Words of the Doctor's Letter are these, Mr. Cooper tells me of my Letter's being put into the Hands of a mean Person, I think a Shoe maker, who carried it from House to House. The Reverend Doctor never blamed Mr. Williams for letting the Contents of the Letter be known, nor did Mr. Williams go about to excuse himself for so doing; but to let the Doctor know that the Report was not true which the Rev. Mr. Cooper had told him, of his doing so ungentlemanly a Thing, as to put a Letter of his, that was committed to his Care, into the Hands of a Shoe-maker, to be carried from House to House.
Again, 'Tis there represented as tho' the Author of that Letter had written to Mr. Williams, manifesting his Dislike of letting the Contents of that Letter be known; which is quite wrong. The Words of the Doctor's Letter are these, Mr. Cooper tells me of my Letter's being put into the Hands of a mean Person, I think a Shoe maker, who carried it from House to House. The Reverend Doctor never blam'd Mr. Williams for letting the Contents of the Letter be known, nor did Mr. Williams go about to excuse himself for so doing; but to let the Doctor know that the Report was not true which the Rev. Mr. Cooper had told him, of his doing so ungentlemanly a Thing, as to put a Letter of his, that was committed to his Care, into the Hands of a Shoe-maker, to be carried from House to House.