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From DigitalMaine Transcription Project
� I Amos Bowden own no real Estate - Share no debts or contracts due to me except to the amount of a few shillings - I labour daily for the support of myself and Family to the extent of my ability which is trifling, and gains me but a miserable pittance, owing to the rupture in my abdomen which is of the size of a twelve Pounder and exceedingly troublesome
Amos Bowden