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�on Sabattus but I am at it in earnest now and before long hope to have something to send to you for your criticism. Undoubtedly your Sabattus and the one at Fryeburg were different persons,--with quite different personalities. I believe that yours was, unquestionably, with Arnold, and I am inclined to the opinion that ours was also. That is what I am now working on.
One reference--which you sent me I have been so unfortunate as to lose,--the reference for the statement about the death of the Sabattus who was taken prisoner by Col. Rogers at St. Francis,--and for the statement of Mrs. Susanna Johnson that she regarded him as her brother. That is, I have the reference you gave me in a letter, from memory, to Farmer and Moore's Historical Monthly Magazine, Concord, 1822-5 but later you sent me the reference, which you had formed, on a post-card, and that I was so u unfortunate as to lose. You may recall just what it was; if not don't take the trouble to look it up again, as I may be in Concord working sometime, and can undoubtedly hunt it out for myself. It doesn't affect my work