Fogg, Samuel. Advantages and disadvantages of the marriage state, etc. : manuscript, ca. 1761. MS Am 2371. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

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A Person hires a Servant for a year his Wages 24 £ and a Suit of Cloaths the Servant goes away at the End of [illegible torn] 13 L. and A Suit of Cloaths w:t was y:e worth

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