Respected Friend
M. Rogers[1] Newport, the 8th month 1814
By the request of thy niece Sarah Rogers[2] I am about to meet a proposition of thine thro’ the medium of a letter from my sister A Greene[3] several months past respecting a removal of Sarah from this place to thy place of residence, where it appears thou wishes to make a home for her and which is certainly a proof of that tender regard and gratitude that thy mind is impressed with towards her, she who has been no doubt to thee a kind affectionate Aunt in infant years and still feels it for thee, but her feeble state of health together with a desolate situation renders a subject of this nature a trial, and she claims the tender sympathy of her friends herein I can state to thee with freedom her situation having long known it. Thou has been in times past some resource from connections, but those resources have for some time been lost for want of the power in those individuals who have lent their aid and at the present she has no dependence in her infirm state except she becomes as object of our poor, those friends who are under appointment as overseers (?) of the poor desire thee to write Sarah fully about her coming that her mind may be more inclined in that point and when thou dost write and she receives the letter, friends authorize me to say to thee there will be a way provided and her expences paid up to thy country. I hope thou will excuse my urging thou not to delay as the season is approaching when the weather will be most suitable for travelling and the roads good.
If there should be no peace this Fall, many must remove from our island[4] on account of fire wood, and such who have no home of their own must feel it doubly exercising in looking forward to the period of Winter.
In case Sarah should go this Fall, she can be landed at my brother Jonathan Greene’s[5] from whence they can advise thee of her being there and thou canst come and meet her, which will brighten the scene a little to see some of her Newport friends by the way.
I subscribe thy friend
Sarah Earl[6]
Please accept Sarah’s love.
(On the opposite side of this letter is the following note, I would assume written by Matthew Rogers after the letter was received…)
A being thought best to commit the bargain made some time past with BT[7] by the trustees for building Galen (Meeting) House to everything which follows
Said BT agreed to build said house the frames of which is put up for three hundred dollars $230 to be paid by the first of 12 month in such manner as the members of Galen meeting have subscribed the remaining $70 in one year from that time agreeable to a subscription to raise the said sum said house is to be finished in such manlike manner suitable for such a building and furnished with a stove in each room sufficient to warm the same further said BT is to have $50 more with putting shutter to the windows provided such sum shall be raised by subscription now in circulation in Scipio & Farmington for that purpose or any other sum under $50 that may be raised for that purpose in said place.
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