(Then follow accounts of an affair on Long Island
Sound, and extracts from a paper two days
old just brought from New York, describing army
matters in the North.)

I have extracted all the material News--should have
sent the Paper but its the only one in Town and every one
is Gaping for news.

===============Your sincere Friend=====
===============GILBERT SALTONSTALL=====

Another, also from Saltonstall, reads in part as
follows:

=====ESTEEMED FRIEND===============

Doctor Church is in close Custody in Norwich Gaol, the
windows boarded up, and he deny'd the use of Pen, Ink,
and Paper, to have no converse with any Person but in
presence of the Gaoler, and then to Converse in no Language
but English.....what a fall...

===============Yr&c=====
===============GILBERT SALTONSTALL=====
===============Novr. 27th 1775=====

A letter already referred to as showing Hale's
interest in New London and its people, also his
feeling as to camp life, is here given. "Betsey"
was one of his pupils in his early-morning classes.
We note the little touch of good-natured fun in
the last paragraph.

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