SerjeantLetters-05_04
Collection: Serjeant Family Letters, 1769-1840
Item: Letter to Elizabeth Browne Rogers Roche from Winwood Serjeant (15 June 1774)
Transcription:
be in our power to come to Portsmouth; Your
Sister seems fearful of trusting the baby so far, she
is amazingly fond of it as bearing the strongest re
semblance of poor Father that a child can be
supposed; for my own part, prudence & the love
of peace makes me unwilling to give my parish
the least room of complaint, otherwise I should be
glad to spend a Sunday at Portsmouth, if it was
only to see my Dear Sister. — Mrs. Phenton paid us
a short visit yesterday morning & expressed her
concern that you did not treat her like an old ac-
quaintance, seldome saw you but upon a formal
invitation, & wished you were more assured of her
friendship from the regard she ever retained for the
family & missed poor Father in the Town very much.
Boston is in a terrible situation, & will be much more
so if they do not submit to Government before the
Fall: the poor will be most miserably distressed,
& the Town must be absolutely ruined. I have
not room to add a line more except to express our
earnest wishes of seeing you soon, & that Heaven wo’d
bless you wth all peace & happiness. I am my Dearest
yrs most afftly W. Serjeant.
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