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{Reverend} Sir,

I remember just now what you asked
me to think of, & I ask your pardon that I have let
so many days pass without your hearing from me.

Mr. Leveretts epitaph must, I think, speak his descent
from {Honorable} Ancestors, particularly our {Governor} Leverett whose
noble soul revived in Him.

That he gave back to their name more than he recei-
ved from them.

In his manly youth he raised an E[x]pectation of some-
thing very great & good & extraordinary in all that saw him.

He did not deceive them.

Virtue & piety, wisdom & gravity, were ye Garland
of his Youth, & ye Crown & Glory of his age.

Majesty & authority in his Eye & Voice, goodness &
courtesie in his heart.

___ years he was ye residing Head of ye College in his Youth.

___ in ye Presidents chair.

By both he became a Father to all ye learned
men (as it were) of his own generation.

Not a Father to ye college only only but to his
Country, & ye churches of N. E.

His Knowledge equal in Divinity, Phylosophy & Law.

In ye House of Representatives he sat their admir'd speaker;
[?] -- among our yeJudges, of ye Superior Court,
& Probat of Wills.

Ye Council Table was adorned by him.

In his more private relations ye most tender Husband,
indulgent Father, constant Friend, obliging Benefactor,
& generous to a fault.

Suddenly taken up from our Head, to ye astonishing
grief of all, on a Lord's -day morning.
Suddenly taken up from our Head, to the astonishing
Grief of all, on a Lords-day morning.