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The excitement, however, still continued, and rumor with her thousand tongues was all the time employed in circulating
afalsehoods
about my father’s family, and about myself. If I were to relate a
thousandth part of them, it would fill up volumes. The persecution,
however, became so intolerable
that I was
under the necessity of leaving Manchester, and going with my wife to
Susquehanna county, in the State of Pennsylvania. While preparing to
start—being very poor, and the persecution so heavy upon
us that there was no probability
that we would ever be otherwise—in the midst of our afflictions we found a friend in a gentleman by the name of
bMartin Harris, who came to
us and gave me fifty dollars to assist
us
on our journey. Mr. Harris was a resident of Palmyra township, Wayne
county, in the State of New York, and a farmer of respectability.
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