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S the dealings of the Almighty with me from my youth have been fingular, and are worthy to be retained in remembrance with thankfulness, I have committed to writing fome remarkable circumftances of my life; tending to awaken future thanksgiving and watchfulness in myself; and, confidering how wonderfully the divine arm has been manifefted for my help, to encourage me to a steady trust therein, and perfeverance in fubmiffion thereto and in order to leave to my furviving relations, fome memorials of the various exercifes and dangers which I have paffed through, and of the merciful support and prefervation vouchfafed from the Lord therein.

But first it appears proper for me to leave a tef timony to my parents, who not only profeffed the truth, but had it in poffeffion. My father, Henry Payton,

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