Collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Vo...
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Excerpt from Collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. 1Herc now this people lived peaceably for several years without preachers or magistrates. Each one did as he thought proper. About this time I became very sick and expected to die, and was willing to die, for my stepmother was indeed a stepmother to me. By her in¿uence my father treated me very harshly, I had no other friend, and had to bear hunger and cold. I often thoug...