And from that day to this my life has been one continual scene of trouble for not to mention a great many of my afflictions a bare relation of which would take up too much of your Lordships precious moments, besides my being many years kept out of my allowance from the Country a great [part] of which I shall never receive because some in whose hands part of the money was are dead & ho effects left behind 'em to pay it & others run awiiy & a great deal of sickness I had myself & in my family all of us being seldom in liealth at the same time, I have buried two Wives & 2 cliildren in less than five years and am now eleven in fcimily the eldest of my family being little more than 16 years of age, there is tlie expence of every otiier Sunday when I go to Newtown & Flushing to be borne for myself and those of the children I take with me, there are all necessaries to be bought £16 yearly to be paid fur house rent & all this to come out of my stipend, no one of them being able to get & indeed too young to know how to save what is gotten this my Lord is too great burthen upon me.
But there is yet a great addition to my troubles by my Bills not being accepted of and paid by the Ven^'i^ Society's Ti-easurer for my h years Stipend due & payable Sept 9 1718, and because