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will make it appear that there was something doing in town in former 

 days as well [as] at present. 



Yours truly, 



Alpheus Richardson. 



P. S. Please to give our best respects to your father and mother 

 and to all of our inquiring friends ; say to them that we are all well 

 hoping they enjoy the same. 



A. R. 



The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ : translated 



out of the Original Greek ; and with the former translations 



diligently compared and revised. Stereotype edition. Groton, 



Mass. Printed and published by Alpheus Richardson. 1833. 



i6mo. pp. 335, (i). 



The frontispiece is a rude cut representing Christ and little 

 children ; the following Revelation is " An account of the 

 Lives, Sufferings, and Martyrdom, of the Apostles and Evan- 

 gelists," and also " A table of Kindred and Affinity, wherein 

 whatsoever are related are forbidden in Scripture, and by 

 our Laws, to marry together." 



The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, translated 

 out of the Original Greek ; and with the former translation dili- 

 gently compared and revised. Stereotyped by Luther Roby, 

 Concord, N. H. Groton, Ms. Published by A. Richardson. 

 1846. i6mo. pp. 254. 



Luther Roby, who made the stereotype plates of this later 

 edition, was the youngest son of James and Lucy (Cutter) 

 Roby, of Amherst, New Hampshire, where he was born on 

 January 8, 1801. 



During my boyhood these two editions of the Testament 

 were common, particularly in the public schools where they 

 were used, but now they are very rarely seen. At that pe- 

 riod the first exercise of the scholars in the morning was the 

 reading of one or two verses from the New Testament. 



Mr. Richardson took up his abode in the town of Methuen 

 about the year 1850. 



