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* When in the Highlands of Scotland (the first time I
believe) by some mischance a Bill drawn on his
Father-in-law was protested & among his papers was
a parcel marked Letters of Horror, shewing his great
sensitivity & delicate feeling for his credit & honor
fearing it might be suspected that he had drawn
without authority.

o= who not being of the Society of Friends, was the cause of
his being read out of meeting - (See a letter to his worthy Cousin
Dorcas Lillie on the Subject.). His wife being very young
(only sixteen) he usd to say he had only stepped out of the
fold to fetch in a stray lamb - & hoped to return with it ‘ere long.