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gone. Little Moll had a large double tooth drawn yesterday. She 

 has had a great deal of the tooth ache since we came to Carlisle. 

 That the Lord may protect and preserve you all and incline your 

 hearts to know and to love him is the prayer of your 



Affectionate father 



SAMUEL BAIRD. 



Samuel Baird died on the 27th of that July, aged 

 forty-seven. In 1834 young Spencer was sent to a Friends' 

 boarding school five miles from Port Deposit, Maryland, 

 kept by a Dr. McGraw. At the end of six months he 

 joined his mother, who had removed to Carlisle after 

 the death of her husband, and in 1835 attended the Car- 

 lisle grammar school, an adjunct, or, as it would now be 

 called, a preparatory school, of Dickinson College, of 

 which the Rev. Stephen G. Roszel was principal. At 

 that time the school contained about seventy pupils. 



As it is certain that conditions which prevailed at 

 Carlisle had much to do with the formation of his early 

 tastes, some details in regard to the place where young 

 Baird and his brothers grew to manhood and were edu- 

 cated may properly be recorded here. 2 



The town of Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsyl- 

 vania, was laid out in 1751 by Nicholas Scull, Surveyor 

 General, pursuant to orders from Governor James Hamil- 

 ton, acting for the Proprietaries of Penn's purchase. 

 It consisted originally of sixteen rectangular plots with 

 a central open square situated between Conodoquinet 

 Creek on the north and a stream flowing on the east 

 from a fine source, called after an Indian interpreter who 

 settled there about 1720, Le Tort's spring. 



2 See "Charter and ordinances of the Borough of Carlisle, to 

 which are prefixed incidents of the early history of the town," etc. 

 Carlisle, printed at the Herald office, 1841. 8vo., 64 pp., 2 maps. 



