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that the overplus shall be equally divided between the three 

 heirs. It is further agreed, that whereas the said deceased had 

 hired a man for the summer past, that the said Snow shall pay 

 his wages out of the crop, and the remaining part of the crop is 

 to be Hiram's. 



" In witness whereof the said parties to these presents have 

 each of them hereunto set their hands this day and year first 

 above written. 



" ISAAC SNOW, Guardian. 



" Signed and delivered in presence of us, 



EBENEZER CONVERSE, HANNAH x r FLAGG, 



mark. 



ZEBADIAH WYMAN, RUTH THOMPSON, 



CALEB BROOKS, JOSHUA SIMONDS." 



BENJAMIN FLAGG, 



(See page 45.) 



The following are fragments of letters written by 

 Benjamin Thompson to his mother, while he was living 

 at Concord, New Hampshire. 



[No date.] 



" I would inform you that I have been very well as to my 

 health since I saw you, as I hope you have been. 



" I can't tell the exact time I shall come to Woburn ; it may 

 be a week sooner or a week later than I have set, for aught I 

 know. When I do come I shall tell you all about my coming to 

 Pennicook [Concord], for 't is too long a story to write in a letter. 



" So I believe I shall write no more at present, only that I 

 am Your dutiful Son, 



"BENJAMIN THOMPSON. 



"I have had 106 Scholars at my School [hiatus] only have 

 70 at once. 



" To MRS. RUTH PIERCE, in Woburn." 



