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1983.030.0078

LettersRanger Family

Dear Brother & Sister

After our regards to you & yours I readily embrace an opportunity of writing to I would inform

you that through the Goodness of God we enjoy a comfortable state of health at present and hope

that these few lines will find you all enjoying the same Blessing I would inform you that I have

wrote once to you since we receivd anny from you we have not heard from daddys since you was

here but we fell anxious to hear from you all

I Would inform you that I was at a meeting the last sabbath of March Mr Beecher Discoursed

from the second Book of Samuel 23 chap verse 5 he hath made with me an everlasting Covenant

well [or]dered in all things and sure wherein he [e]xplained the nature of the Covenant after

which [a]ll the Church that was then present Stood up [an]d the Confession of faith & the

Covenant was read [and] renewed at the close of which the Lords supper was [a]dministered one

person was receivd into communion there has been several persons receivd into the Church since

you was here

I feel anxious to se you & all the rest of my friends but I donot no when I shal I want that you

should write as often as you can there are Great and precious promisses in the Bible to any that

will accept of the offers of [li]fe and savation in and through Jesus Christ as he is offered in the

Gospel for he is the way the Truth and life by me if any man enter he shal go in & out and find &

pasture

are the words of our Saviour

Give our love to all enquireing friends and accept same to your selves these lines in haste from

your affectionate brother & sister

Abraham & Martha Ranger

Longisland Easthampton April 8 1808

to Parsons & Naomi Ranger

ps there is a general Complaint of a Cough among the people in genreal which some calls the

whooping Cough

Betsey Cough considerable