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My dearest Son. I should not do my feeling Justice if I employed one of Your Sisters to Convey my thanks to You for the agreable News Your letters Contained of the Attention You have shewn towards my beloved Country by Numbering it amongst those who are to be benefitted by the Generous Subscription of this Nation for the relief of the wretched Sufferers in this long & deplorable War: I feel it the more as I well informed that Meerklenbourg Strelity without many resources has quietly laboured under very heavy distresses without Complaining, & yet is come forward with Heart & Soul & no Assistance whatever to