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Hopkinton May 4: 1756

May it please your Honours
your past kindness to me and especially your
last Benefaction was so liberal that I was
in hope of not being under necessity of making
any further application for Reliefe, but being
burdened with an obligation to Col Hutchinson
late Treasurer to the Colledge and the Honourable
Trustees, which [?] hath been of some years
standing and not demanded of me for many
years before the Death of the Colonal. I was not
concerned as perhaps I ought to have been about
it; But soon after the Honourable Thomas Hub
bard came into the Treasurers office, he acquaint
ed me with the account of the sum [of?] borrowed and
of the amount of it by reason of the Interest &
fall of money which greatly surprised me and
gave me great concern about discharging the Debt
I should not have [?] suffered this Matter [I?] [?]
have laid so long had I not taken encouragement from
Col. Hutchinson to have [?] the matter laid
before the Trustees for their consideration. Had I
borrowed the money with an intent to enlarge
my Estate and to have laid it out for that purpose
It would not have been so difficult to discharge
the Debt, but on the contrary it was not borrowed to supply
me with [necessary?] for my Family in a Time when my
Sallery being of very small would not more than [halfe?]
Suffice for that end, and upon the account of my Ex