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I would embrace this (wch may be ye last) Opportunity to thank you for your
great care & expressed many ways, for many years past, to promote piety & the
most useful literature, especially in the place of our nativity to the great honour
of our pious predecessors, and I trust to ye great, very great, advantages of the
present, the future, & even the latest generations. -- Tho' this has been attended,
wth much care & expense to me & my Son, yet, the first motion of the Institution
seems to have originated, with you, and the first stone in its foundations
to be laid by your hand, your continued care every way discover'd. Especially by
your late most Generous Donation, will, we hope & pray be attended with the family of
Heaven & by means thereof be made to answer you & our most [favr'd] Expectations concerning
it.

You will be kind enough to overlook, & not expose the foregoing in-
correct lines & impute them, in part at least, to a weak head, a trembling
hand & an aching heart

As I am call'd upon must conclude, wth my most earnest request that you &
my Dear Sister would remember me in ^your addresses at the Throne of Grace
that I may be prepar'd for all future Events of the Provid'r concerning

your & her Loving Brother,

Samuel Phillips

Hon'ble John Phillips Esqr