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The excitement, however, still continued, and rumor with her thousand
tongues was all the time employed in circulating falsehoods 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
Martin 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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