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july [?] fifty Six year of our inderpendence hailed the
auspicious morning with joy. the spirit that roused our
beloved Washington remains in this genration the Love
of there country remain [?] the Young
Salvation let the echo fly.
the spacious earth around: While all the armies of the sky
conspire to raise the Sound;
I desire to be thankfull that my life is Spared to
See this morning, and I am a [?] better in my
health, when So manny of my Dear family are
numbered with the dead
and I now professed myself a disciple of christ and
covenanted with him on the lords day at his Sacred
table. I am now renewedly bound to key his commdments,
and walk in his [?], O may his [?] covenant [?]
be broken,