Re: Reuben Rowzee letter to Geo Washington is online!
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Reuben Rowzee letter to Geo Washington is online!
Matt 3/20/02
Hi, here is my transcription of the letter to the best of my ability: Sir, the Petition, which I had the honor to transmit to you, by W.R.Lewis, about this time last year, signed by many worthy gentlemen, in the vicinity where I resided, on the subject of my deplorable situation, has never yet been finally answered. The gentleman who was pleased toconvey the memorial to you, has never yet had it in his power, I have learned, to afford me those communications, which could only palliate the miseries I have so long suffered through the wicked artifices of a man I wished to serve. I hope in Heaven by this time you have considered the documents, which I took the liberty to send you; and that I may as soon as public convenience, and private leisure, will permit, receive an answer that will be decisive.Believe me Sir, candid, when I declare, that I cannot satisfy the claim, or even a part of it, without being incapable of answering for a violence, to my pitiful family, before a just and almighty God from whose mercy only, I look and hope for a glorious, and happy immortality. If I were a single man, I could not hesitate on moment to part with my little all, to satisfy the debt, but such has not been the will of providence, and even under my present woeful circumstances, I _______happenings, on the occasional interludes I have with my children, in burly walls of a loathsome prison.In the course of human affairs, my residence in this world cannot be very long, and rather would I consume the remaining ______ in captive misery, than for my poor children, after I am cold in the ground, to be obliged to beg the little, which ________________from door to door.Pardon, good Sir, this______ it is the overflowing of a heart, of an old grey headed affectionate Father.I will only, may your answer, as soon, as your absence from the _______avocations of busy life will admit, and when your private business may be not importunate for your attention.I am with _________Respect ______Sir,Your most obedient Servant(?),
Reuben Rowzee.
That is the best I can do in transcribing this....sounds like his family fortune was in peril!