61 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 ourjourney. 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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