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(seq. 11)
May it please your honour, I have [??]lately made application for Reliefe that I [?] not presume to make any further application (at least at present) [?] that I apprehended you might not have a thorough understanding of my circumstances. So informed your Honour of my misfortunate of loosing my Barn by a violent storm a few years ago, which I have not been able to rebuild, as [?] of the [uneasing?] of mind with respects to a Bond which I I gave to [?] [?] [?] for some money which I took up upon [?] not well considering that the money that I had of him was of Treasurer for the College, because he acted as Treasurer also for the Honourable Trustees for Hopkinton I neglected to pay the money and the [?] never calling on me for it, I was in hopes that he had according to encouragement applyed in my behalfe to the Trustees for Help. I [is?] [greatly?] [?] together with the on the Interest and fall of money which I was in no Wise [?] [?] of and am not able to discharge by my [?] which will not maintain my family it being but four Hundred pound old [Jennor?], having had fifty pound taken off by the Town for then these years on the acct {account} of the War and the number of poor people in the Town, and my [?] [?] meanby paid that, I am under very great difficulty, which I would not trouble your Honours with the [?] of several of your Honour Honourable Society being already acquainted to these with to whom I shall refer your Honours for futher Information and shall [rest?] on y'r Honours, Goodness and Charity
Y'r Hon'smost Humblest oblidged Serv't, Sam'l Barrett Dates at Boston May 5, 1757.
(seq. 13)
May it please {your} {Honor}
I expected the last time your grant made me for subsistance [sic] to my family would have finished my application to you for further Releife [sic], but by reason of my paying the chiefe [sic] part of that to the Honourable [?] Hubbard toward a Debt long since contracted for [?] for my fa [-] mily, and all that God hath visited me with sick [-] ness in the Family[?] [?] Winter past, and the loss of one of the Honestest [sic] and faithfullest [sic] negro man-servant [?] had great care of my [?] [?], and therefore very valluable [sic], as well as the [?] [?] of commodity by [?] of [???] which I am [?] [???] to great and diffi[-] culty (my sallery [sic] being no way equal thereto, bring only 400 old [?]. I therefore pray your [?] compassionate consideration of my circumstances and that further Reliefe [sic] your Wisdom and charity shall suggest----
I am {your} {?} most obliged [&?] very Humble {Servant}
{Samuel} Barrett
Hopkinton April 30: 1759
