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In the year 1823 my father’s family met with a great affliction
by the death of my eldest brother, Alvin. In the month of October,
1825, I hired with an old gentleman by the name of Josiah Stoal, who
lived in Chenango county, State of New York. He had heard something of a
silver mine having been opened by the Spaniards in Harmony, Susquehanna
county, State of Pennsylvania; and had, previous to my hiring to him,
been digging, in order, if possible, to discover the mine. After I went
to live with him, he took me, with the rest of his hands, to dig for
the silver mine, at which I continued to work for nearly a month,
without success in our undertaking, and finally I prevailed with the old
gentleman to cease digging after it. Hence arose the very prevalent
story of my having been a money-digger.
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