1761 Stephen Seavey to Joseph Garrish Plans for payment he missed Kittery Maine

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“It is
my Misforting by the frowns of Providence that I cannotcoply with Promes that I made to you when you was so good as to releve me in my Destres and I am Disappointed for raising Money the way I Proposed I now am engaged in ——to receive my pay in Boston which I hope will answer the engagements I have made…..
Stephen Seavey 1712 - 1809 Kittery, Maine son of Captain Stephen Seavey
Col. Joseph
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Gerrish was born 13 September 1732 in Maine and graduated from Harvard in 1752. He was a farmer and representative. He married 1
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Anna Thompson on 28 February 1764, the daughter of Rev. Wm. Thompson of Scarboro, whose sister married Stephen Longfellow, the grandfather of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). Ann died 11 August 1772 aged 34. Colonel Joseph
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Gerrish died 1812 in Kittery, Maine aged 80 years.