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A PICKLE FOR THE KNOWING
ONES,
BY LORD TIMOTHY DEXTER,
WITH AN
Introductory Preface,
BY A DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN OF "OULD NEWBERRY."
FOURTH EDITION.
NEWBURYPORT:
BLANCHARD & SARGENT.
1848.
[2]
A PICKLE FOR THE KNOWING
ONES,
BY LORD TIMOTHY DEXTER,
WITH AN
Introductory Preface,
BY A DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN OF "OULD NEWBERRY."
FOURTH EDITION.
NEWBURYPORT:
BLANCHARD & SARGENT.
1848.
[2]
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Lord Dexter and his Dog.
[3]
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PREFACE.
Timothy Dexter, the author of the following curious and unique
production, entitled "A Pickle for the Knowing Ones," which is here re-
printed verbatim et spellatim from the original edition, was born in Malden,
January 22, 1747. Having served an apprenticeship with a leather dresser,
he commenced business in Newburyport shortly after he was one and
twenty, and being industrious and economical, he soon found himself in
good circumstances. In the year 1770 he married, and receiving a
considerable amount of money with his wife, he was thus put in possession
of a moderate fortune. In 1776 he had for one of his apprentices the no less
eccentric, and afterwards the no less noted Jonathan Plumer, jun.,
"travelling preacher, physician and poet," as he was accustomed to style
himself, and of whom we shall hereafter speak. In addition to his regular
business of selling leather breeches, gloves "soutabel for wimen's ware,"
&c. he engaged in commercial speculations, and in various kinds of
business, and was unusually successful. He traded with merchants and
speculators in the then Province of Maine, was engaged to some extent in
the West India trade. He also purchased a large amount of what were called
State securities, which were eventually redeemed at prices far exceeding
their original cost. Some of his speculations in whalebone and warming
pans are mentioned by himself on page 23 of this work. Thus in various
ways he added to his property, and in a few years he became a wealthy man.
With wealth came the desire of distinction, and as his vanity was inordinate
he spared no expence in obtaining the notoriety he sought. In the first place
he purchased an elegant house in High Street, Newburyport, and
embellished it in his peculiar way. Minarets surmounted with golden balls
were placed on the roof, a large gilt eagle was placed on the top, and a great
variety of other ornaments. In front of his house and land he caused to be
erected between forty and fifty wooden statues, full length and larger than
Timothy Dexter, the author of the following curious and unique
production, entitled "A Pickle for the Knowing Ones," which is here re-
printed verbatim et spellatim from the original edition, was born in Malden,
January 22, 1747. Having served an apprenticeship with a leather dresser,
he commenced business in Newburyport shortly after he was one and
twenty, and being industrious and economical, he soon found himself in
good circumstances. In the year 1770 he married, and receiving a
considerable amount of money with his wife, he was thus put in possession
of a moderate fortune. In 1776 he had for one of his apprentices the no less
eccentric, and afterwards the no less noted Jonathan Plumer, jun.,
"travelling preacher, physician and poet," as he was accustomed to style
himself, and of whom we shall hereafter speak. In addition to his regular
business of selling leather breeches, gloves "soutabel for wimen's ware,"
&c. he engaged in commercial speculations, and in various kinds of
business, and was unusually successful. He traded with merchants and
speculators in the then Province of Maine, was engaged to some extent in
the West India trade. He also purchased a large amount of what were called
State securities, which were eventually redeemed at prices far exceeding
their original cost. Some of his speculations in whalebone and warming
pans are mentioned by himself on page 23 of this work. Thus in various
ways he added to his property, and in a few years he became a wealthy man.
With wealth came the desire of distinction, and as his vanity was inordinate
he spared no expence in obtaining the notoriety he sought. In the first place
he purchased an elegant house in High Street, Newburyport, and
embellished it in his peculiar way. Minarets surmounted with golden balls
were placed on the roof, a large gilt eagle was placed on the top, and a great
variety of other ornaments. In front of his house and land he caused to be
erected between forty and fifty wooden statues, full length and larger than
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life. The principal arch stood directly in front of his door, and on this stood
the figures of Washington, Adams and Jefferson. There were also the statues
of William Pitt, Franklin, Bonaparte, George IV, Lord Nelson, Gen.
Morgan, Cornplanter, an Indian Chief, Jack Tar, Traveling Preacher,
Maternal Affection, Two Grenadiers, Four Lions and one Lamb, and
conspicuous among them were two images of Dexter himself, one of which
held a label with the inscription "I am the first in the East, the first in the
West, and the greatest philosopher in the Western world." In order that the
interior of his house should correspond with the exterior, the most costly
furniture was imported from France, and the walls hung with paintings,
brought from Holland and other parts of Europe. A library was also
provided, but how large or valuable we are not able to say. An elegant coach
with a span of beautiful cream colored horses was procured, on which was
painted his coat of arms, with the baronial supporters, after the manner of
the English nobility. With this equipage he took the title of Lord Dexter,
because, as he said, it was "the voice of the people at Large." He was
sometimes called the Marquis of Newburyport. Having completed the
embelishments of his house and gardens, Lord Dexter busied himself in
receiving the visits of the crowds, who were drawn by curiosity to his
house. His gardens were thrown open to their inspection, and he was liberal
to all. The fame of his hospitality attracted as many visitors as the fame of
his images. To gratify his vanity he selected in imitation of European
princes, a poet laureate. This was no other than his former apprentice,
[4]
Jonathan Plumer, jun., a native of Newbury. They had once been associated
as master and apprentice, but now stood in the relation of patron and poet.
From the auto-biography of Plumer a very curious and scarce production of
244 pages, the following extract is taken, which may serve to give some
idea of the versatility of his genius.—"I had," says he, "some practice as a
physician, and earned something with my pen, but for several years was
obliged chiefly to follow various kinds of business accounted less
honorable, viz: Farming, repeating select passages from authors, selling
halibut, sawing wood, selling books and ballads in the streets, serving as
post boy, filling beds with straw and wheeling them to the owners thereof,
collecting rags, &c." He had previously served one or two campaigns as a
soldier, and on his return from the wars he taught school for some time in
New Hampshire. The ballads, which he hawked about, were generally his
own composition. Every horrid accident, bloody murder, a shipwreck, or
the figures of Washington, Adams and Jefferson. There were also the statues
of William Pitt, Franklin, Bonaparte, George IV, Lord Nelson, Gen.
Morgan, Cornplanter, an Indian Chief, Jack Tar, Traveling Preacher,
Maternal Affection, Two Grenadiers, Four Lions and one Lamb, and
conspicuous among them were two images of Dexter himself, one of which
held a label with the inscription "I am the first in the East, the first in the
West, and the greatest philosopher in the Western world." In order that the
interior of his house should correspond with the exterior, the most costly
furniture was imported from France, and the walls hung with paintings,
brought from Holland and other parts of Europe. A library was also
provided, but how large or valuable we are not able to say. An elegant coach
with a span of beautiful cream colored horses was procured, on which was
painted his coat of arms, with the baronial supporters, after the manner of
the English nobility. With this equipage he took the title of Lord Dexter,
because, as he said, it was "the voice of the people at Large." He was
sometimes called the Marquis of Newburyport. Having completed the
embelishments of his house and gardens, Lord Dexter busied himself in
receiving the visits of the crowds, who were drawn by curiosity to his
house. His gardens were thrown open to their inspection, and he was liberal
to all. The fame of his hospitality attracted as many visitors as the fame of
his images. To gratify his vanity he selected in imitation of European
princes, a poet laureate. This was no other than his former apprentice,
[4]
Jonathan Plumer, jun., a native of Newbury. They had once been associated
as master and apprentice, but now stood in the relation of patron and poet.
From the auto-biography of Plumer a very curious and scarce production of
244 pages, the following extract is taken, which may serve to give some
idea of the versatility of his genius.—"I had," says he, "some practice as a
physician, and earned something with my pen, but for several years was
obliged chiefly to follow various kinds of business accounted less
honorable, viz: Farming, repeating select passages from authors, selling
halibut, sawing wood, selling books and ballads in the streets, serving as
post boy, filling beds with straw and wheeling them to the owners thereof,
collecting rags, &c." He had previously served one or two campaigns as a
soldier, and on his return from the wars he taught school for some time in
New Hampshire. The ballads, which he hawked about, were generally his
own composition. Every horrid accident, bloody murder, a shipwreck, or
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any other dreadful catastrophe, was sure to be followed by a statement of
the facts, a sermon and a poem. In the capacity of ballad maker and monger
he attracted the notice of Dexter, in whose service he entered for a small
salary as poet laureate. He wore a livery, consisting of a black frock coat,
adorned with stars and fringes, a cocked hat and black breeches. He was
crowned in the garden of his patron with a wreath of parsley, instead of
laurel, but the ceremony was interrupted before its completion by a mob of
boys, and both patron and poet put to flight. One specimen of his laudatory
verses may be seen on page 29 of this work, which will give the reader
some idea of his qualifications for the office to which he was elected. How
well he was satisfied with the praises of the poet we are not informed, but
feeling probably that no person but himself could do justice to the ideas,
which he wished to present to the public, he commenced writing for the
press. Several of these effusions were printed in the newspapers.—The
larger part of them written at different times are embodied in the present
work, a large edition of which was published by himself and given away. In
this edition not a stop or a mark was used in any line of his writings, but in
the second edition one entire page was filled with stops and marks, with a
recommendation from the author to his readers, to use them where they
were wanted in the work, or in his own language, "to peper and soolt it as
they pleased." Dexter had two children, Samuel and Nancy, neither of
whom was distinguished for strength of intellect. The son was a dissipated
prodigal and died young. The daughter, of whom mention is made by the
father in the following pages, was married to Abraham Bishop of New
Haven, who we are informed treated her with neglect and cruelty. A divorce
followed and she became intemperate, lost what little reason she had, and is
still living, a wretched object. Lord Dexter himself, if we may judge from
his own writings and from what we have heard, was not happy in his
domestic relations. He complains much of his wife, whom he calls the
"gost," and charges the cause of his separation from her for thirteen years to
his son Bishop. His own temper was irascible, and several stories are told of
the excesses, into which it would sometimes lead him. He ordered his
painter, Mr. Babson, to place the word "Constitution" on the scroll in the
hand of the figure of Jefferson, which the latter, knowing the artist designed
it to represent the Declaration of Independence, refused to do. Dexter was
so incensed by this refusal, that he went into the house, and brought out a
pistol, which he deliberately fired at the painter; but he was a poor shot, and
the facts, a sermon and a poem. In the capacity of ballad maker and monger
he attracted the notice of Dexter, in whose service he entered for a small
salary as poet laureate. He wore a livery, consisting of a black frock coat,
adorned with stars and fringes, a cocked hat and black breeches. He was
crowned in the garden of his patron with a wreath of parsley, instead of
laurel, but the ceremony was interrupted before its completion by a mob of
boys, and both patron and poet put to flight. One specimen of his laudatory
verses may be seen on page 29 of this work, which will give the reader
some idea of his qualifications for the office to which he was elected. How
well he was satisfied with the praises of the poet we are not informed, but
feeling probably that no person but himself could do justice to the ideas,
which he wished to present to the public, he commenced writing for the
press. Several of these effusions were printed in the newspapers.—The
larger part of them written at different times are embodied in the present
work, a large edition of which was published by himself and given away. In
this edition not a stop or a mark was used in any line of his writings, but in
the second edition one entire page was filled with stops and marks, with a
recommendation from the author to his readers, to use them where they
were wanted in the work, or in his own language, "to peper and soolt it as
they pleased." Dexter had two children, Samuel and Nancy, neither of
whom was distinguished for strength of intellect. The son was a dissipated
prodigal and died young. The daughter, of whom mention is made by the
father in the following pages, was married to Abraham Bishop of New
Haven, who we are informed treated her with neglect and cruelty. A divorce
followed and she became intemperate, lost what little reason she had, and is
still living, a wretched object. Lord Dexter himself, if we may judge from
his own writings and from what we have heard, was not happy in his
domestic relations. He complains much of his wife, whom he calls the
"gost," and charges the cause of his separation from her for thirteen years to
his son Bishop. His own temper was irascible, and several stories are told of
the excesses, into which it would sometimes lead him. He ordered his
painter, Mr. Babson, to place the word "Constitution" on the scroll in the
hand of the figure of Jefferson, which the latter, knowing the artist designed
it to represent the Declaration of Independence, refused to do. Dexter was
so incensed by this refusal, that he went into the house, and brought out a
pistol, which he deliberately fired at the painter; but he was a poor shot, and
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the ball missing its object, entered the side of the house. At another time,
seeing a countryman, as he thought, rather impudently viewing his
premises, he ordered his son to fire at the stranger. He refused to do so,
when the father threatened to shoot him unless he complied. His son then
obeyed. The stranger escaped unhurt, but entered a complaint, and Lord
Timothy was, in consequence, sentenced to the house of correction for
[5]
several months. He went thither in his own coach, priding himself on being
the first man who had been to the county house in his own carriage, drawn
by two splendid horses. He soon grew tired, however, of his confinement,
and procured a release, which it was said, cost him a thousand dollars. The
individual, who exercised most influence over Dexter was a negro woman,
named Lucy Lancaster, or as she was commonly called "Black Luce," a
woman of uncommon strength of mind, great shrewdness and remarkable
for her powers of memory and knowledge of human nature, but as wicked
as she was sagacious. She thought him an honest man, and not so deficient
in intellect as many people supposed, and attributed his eccentricities to an
excess of animal spirits.—This was probably to some extent true, though it
is certain that other spirits contributed in no small degree to the excesses of
his temper and the peculiarities of his taste. He was addicted to
drunkenness, and with his son and other companions, kept up his revels in
the best apartments of his house, by which in a very short time, all his
costly furniture was ruined, or very much injured.
"Not insensible that he must share the common lot, Dexter, many years
before his death, prepared himself a tomb. It was the basement story of his
summer-house, magnificently fitted, and open to the light of day. His coffin,
made of the best mahogany which he could find, superbly lined, and
adorned with silver handles, he kept in a room of the house, and took great
pleasure in exhibiting it to visitors—at other times it was locked up. Soon
after his death apparatus was prepared, Dexter got up a mock funeral, which
with all but his family and a few associates was to pass as real. Various
people in the town were invited by card, who came and found the family
clad in mourning, and preparations for the funeral going forward. The burial
service was read by a wag, who then pronounced a bombastic eulogy upon
the deceased. The mourners moved in procession to the tomb in the garden,
the coffin was deposited, and they returned to the large hall, where a
sumptuous entertainment was provided. While the feast was going on, a
seeing a countryman, as he thought, rather impudently viewing his
premises, he ordered his son to fire at the stranger. He refused to do so,
when the father threatened to shoot him unless he complied. His son then
obeyed. The stranger escaped unhurt, but entered a complaint, and Lord
Timothy was, in consequence, sentenced to the house of correction for
[5]
several months. He went thither in his own coach, priding himself on being
the first man who had been to the county house in his own carriage, drawn
by two splendid horses. He soon grew tired, however, of his confinement,
and procured a release, which it was said, cost him a thousand dollars. The
individual, who exercised most influence over Dexter was a negro woman,
named Lucy Lancaster, or as she was commonly called "Black Luce," a
woman of uncommon strength of mind, great shrewdness and remarkable
for her powers of memory and knowledge of human nature, but as wicked
as she was sagacious. She thought him an honest man, and not so deficient
in intellect as many people supposed, and attributed his eccentricities to an
excess of animal spirits.—This was probably to some extent true, though it
is certain that other spirits contributed in no small degree to the excesses of
his temper and the peculiarities of his taste. He was addicted to
drunkenness, and with his son and other companions, kept up his revels in
the best apartments of his house, by which in a very short time, all his
costly furniture was ruined, or very much injured.
"Not insensible that he must share the common lot, Dexter, many years
before his death, prepared himself a tomb. It was the basement story of his
summer-house, magnificently fitted, and open to the light of day. His coffin,
made of the best mahogany which he could find, superbly lined, and
adorned with silver handles, he kept in a room of the house, and took great
pleasure in exhibiting it to visitors—at other times it was locked up. Soon
after his death apparatus was prepared, Dexter got up a mock funeral, which
with all but his family and a few associates was to pass as real. Various
people in the town were invited by card, who came and found the family
clad in mourning, and preparations for the funeral going forward. The burial
service was read by a wag, who then pronounced a bombastic eulogy upon
the deceased. The mourners moved in procession to the tomb in the garden,
the coffin was deposited, and they returned to the large hall, where a
sumptuous entertainment was provided. While the feast was going on, a
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loud noise attracted the guests to the kitchen, where they beheld the arisen
Lord caning his wife for not having shed a tear during the ceremony! He
entered the hall with the astonished mourners, in high spirits, joined in the
rout, threw money from the window to the crowd of boys, and expressed his
satisfaction with every thing except the indifference of his wife, and the
silence of the bells."
Lord Dexter died at his house, on the 26th of October, 1806, in his 60th
year, and by direction of the Board of Health, his remains were interred in
the common burying place. His grave is marked by a simple stone.
The Dexter mansion, is yet standing, and is a very fine tenement, but
retains few traces of the whims of its late proprietor. Of the images,
upwards of forty in number, only the three Presidents now remain, the
others having been cast down by the resistless hand of time. Some of them
were blown down in the great gale of September, 1815, and were sold at
auction.
The cut fronting the Biography gives a very excellent and faithful
representation of Lord Dexter in his walking habits, and the likeness of the
dog is equally perfect. The dog was perfectly black and the skin as entirely
free from hair as that of an elephant. He differed as much from other dogs
as did his master and his friend, the poet, differ from other people. The
likenesses of all three were drawn with great accuracy by James Aiken, Esq.
now a resident of Philadelphia, and could the patron and the poet be seen in
proper person, dressed in the costume of that day, they would be objects of
great curiosity. But they are gone, and of each it may be truly said,
We ne'er shall look upon his like again.
[6]
Lord caning his wife for not having shed a tear during the ceremony! He
entered the hall with the astonished mourners, in high spirits, joined in the
rout, threw money from the window to the crowd of boys, and expressed his
satisfaction with every thing except the indifference of his wife, and the
silence of the bells."
Lord Dexter died at his house, on the 26th of October, 1806, in his 60th
year, and by direction of the Board of Health, his remains were interred in
the common burying place. His grave is marked by a simple stone.
The Dexter mansion, is yet standing, and is a very fine tenement, but
retains few traces of the whims of its late proprietor. Of the images,
upwards of forty in number, only the three Presidents now remain, the
others having been cast down by the resistless hand of time. Some of them
were blown down in the great gale of September, 1815, and were sold at
auction.
The cut fronting the Biography gives a very excellent and faithful
representation of Lord Dexter in his walking habits, and the likeness of the
dog is equally perfect. The dog was perfectly black and the skin as entirely
free from hair as that of an elephant. He differed as much from other dogs
as did his master and his friend, the poet, differ from other people. The
likenesses of all three were drawn with great accuracy by James Aiken, Esq.
now a resident of Philadelphia, and could the patron and the poet be seen in
proper person, dressed in the costume of that day, they would be objects of
great curiosity. But they are gone, and of each it may be truly said,
We ne'er shall look upon his like again.
[6]
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View of Lord Dexter's Mansion, High Street, Newburyport,
1806.
[7]
1806.
[7]
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A PICKLE
FOR THE KNOWING ONES.
To mankind at Large the time is Com at Last the grat day of Regoising
what is that why I will tell you thous three kings is Rased Rased you meane
should know Rased on the first Royal Arch in the world olmost Not quite
but very hiw up upon so thay are good mark to be scene so the womans Lik
to see the frount and all people Loves to see them as the quakers will Com
and peape slyly and feele glad and say houe the doue frind father Jorge
washeton is in the senter king Addoms is at the Rite hand the present king at
the Left hand father gorge with his hat on the other hats of the middel king
with his sword king Addoms with his Cane in a grand poster Adtetoude
turning his fass towards the first king as if they was on sum politicks king
our present king he is stands hearing being younger and very deafe in short
being one grat felosfer Looks well East & west and North & south deafe &
very deafe the god of Natur has dun very much for our present king and all
our former ones they are all good I want them to Live for Ever and I
beleave thay will it is hard work to be A king—I say it is hardar than tilling
the ground I know it is for I find it is hard work to be A Lord I dont desier
the sound but to pleas the peopel at Large Let it gou to brak the way it dus
for Asort ment to help a good Lafe to Cour the sick spleney goutey dul
frames Lik my selfe with the goute and so on make merry a Chealy
Christen is for me only be onnest No matter what they worshep son moune
or [8]
stars or there wife or miss if onnest Live forever money wont gitt thous
figers so fast as I wish I have sent to Leg horn for many mr bourr is one
Amonks others I sent in the grand Crecham thous 3 kings Are plane white
colow at present the Royal Arch & figers cost 39 pound wate silver the hiest
Councaton order in the world so it is sade by the knowing one I have only 4
Lions & 1 Lam up the spred Eagel has bin up 3 years upon the Coupelay I
have 13 billors front in strat Row for 13 states when we begun 3 in the Rear
FOR THE KNOWING ONES.
To mankind at Large the time is Com at Last the grat day of Regoising
what is that why I will tell you thous three kings is Rased Rased you meane
should know Rased on the first Royal Arch in the world olmost Not quite
but very hiw up upon so thay are good mark to be scene so the womans Lik
to see the frount and all people Loves to see them as the quakers will Com
and peape slyly and feele glad and say houe the doue frind father Jorge
washeton is in the senter king Addoms is at the Rite hand the present king at
the Left hand father gorge with his hat on the other hats of the middel king
with his sword king Addoms with his Cane in a grand poster Adtetoude
turning his fass towards the first king as if they was on sum politicks king
our present king he is stands hearing being younger and very deafe in short
being one grat felosfer Looks well East & west and North & south deafe &
very deafe the god of Natur has dun very much for our present king and all
our former ones they are all good I want them to Live for Ever and I
beleave thay will it is hard work to be A king—I say it is hardar than tilling
the ground I know it is for I find it is hard work to be A Lord I dont desier
the sound but to pleas the peopel at Large Let it gou to brak the way it dus
for Asort ment to help a good Lafe to Cour the sick spleney goutey dul
frames Lik my selfe with the goute and so on make merry a Chealy
Christen is for me only be onnest No matter what they worshep son moune
or [8]
stars or there wife or miss if onnest Live forever money wont gitt thous
figers so fast as I wish I have sent to Leg horn for many mr bourr is one
Amonks others I sent in the grand Crecham thous 3 kings Are plane white
colow at present the Royal Arch & figers cost 39 pound wate silver the hiest
Councaton order in the world so it is sade by the knowing one I have only 4
Lions & 1 Lam up the spred Eagel has bin up 3 years upon the Coupelay I
have 13 billors front in strat Row for 13 states when we begun 3 in the Rear
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15 foot hie 4 more on the grass see 2 the same hath at the Rite of the grand
Arch 2 at the left wing 15 foot hie the Arch 17 foot hie the my hous is 3
sorey upwards of 290 feet round the hous Nater has formed the ground
Eaquel to what you would wish for the Art by man Eaquel to a Solomun the
onerabel Jonathan Jackson one of the first in this Country for tast borne A
grat man by Nater then the best Lurning what sot me fored for my plan
having so gran spot the hool of the world Cant Excead this to thous that
dont know would think I was Like halfe the world A Lier I have traveled
good deale but old steady men sayeth it is the first that it is the first best in
this Contry & others Contrey I tell you this the trouth that None of you grat
men wodent be A frunted at my preseadens & I spare Now Cost in the work
I have the tempel of Reason in my garding 3 years past with a toume under
it on the Eage of the grass see it cost 98 gineys besides the Coffen panted
whit in side and out side tuched with green Nobel trimings uncommon Lock
so I can tak the kee in side and haye fier works in the toume pipes and
tobacker & A speaking trumpet and & bibel to Read & sum good songs
What is a presedent answer A king bonne partey the grate has as much
power as A king and ort to have & it is a massey he has for the good of
mankind he has as much power as Any king for grat ways back there must
be A head sum whare or the peopel is Lost Lik wild gees when thay Lous
the gander two Leged want A head if fore Leged both & 2 Leged fouls the
Name of presedent is to pleas the peopel at Large the sound souts best Now
in the south give way to the North the North give way to the south or by &
by you will brake what falers be wise on keep the Links to gether and if you
cant A gree Consoalated to A kingly power for you must keep together at
the wost hear it Labers ye les see there is so many men wants be the all
offesers & Now sogers poor king Every day wants A bone sum more then
others the king cant Live without the feald wee have had our turne grat
[9]
good father Addoms turne & turne About Rest Easey you all will be pleased
with the present king give time all did I say Now but the magor part fore
fifths at least.
TIMOTHY DEXTER
Arch 2 at the left wing 15 foot hie the Arch 17 foot hie the my hous is 3
sorey upwards of 290 feet round the hous Nater has formed the ground
Eaquel to what you would wish for the Art by man Eaquel to a Solomun the
onerabel Jonathan Jackson one of the first in this Country for tast borne A
grat man by Nater then the best Lurning what sot me fored for my plan
having so gran spot the hool of the world Cant Excead this to thous that
dont know would think I was Like halfe the world A Lier I have traveled
good deale but old steady men sayeth it is the first that it is the first best in
this Contry & others Contrey I tell you this the trouth that None of you grat
men wodent be A frunted at my preseadens & I spare Now Cost in the work
I have the tempel of Reason in my garding 3 years past with a toume under
it on the Eage of the grass see it cost 98 gineys besides the Coffen panted
whit in side and out side tuched with green Nobel trimings uncommon Lock
so I can tak the kee in side and haye fier works in the toume pipes and
tobacker & A speaking trumpet and & bibel to Read & sum good songs
What is a presedent answer A king bonne partey the grate has as much
power as A king and ort to have & it is a massey he has for the good of
mankind he has as much power as Any king for grat ways back there must
be A head sum whare or the peopel is Lost Lik wild gees when thay Lous
the gander two Leged want A head if fore Leged both & 2 Leged fouls the
Name of presedent is to pleas the peopel at Large the sound souts best Now
in the south give way to the North the North give way to the south or by &
by you will brake what falers be wise on keep the Links to gether and if you
cant A gree Consoalated to A kingly power for you must keep together at
the wost hear it Labers ye les see there is so many men wants be the all
offesers & Now sogers poor king Every day wants A bone sum more then
others the king cant Live without the feald wee have had our turne grat
[9]
good father Addoms turne & turne About Rest Easey you all will be pleased
with the present king give time all did I say Now but the magor part fore
fifths at least.
TIMOTHY DEXTER
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Frinds hear me 2 granadears goss up in 20 days fourder frinds I will tell
the A tipe of man kind what is that 35 or 36 years gone A town caled
Noubry all won the Younited states Noubry peopel kept to gether quiet till
the Larned groed strong the farmers was 12 out of 20 thay wanted to have
the offesers in the Contry the Eaned in the see port wanted to have them
there geering A Rose groued warme fite thay wood in Law thay went the
Jnrel Cort to be sot of finely thay go there Eands Answered the see port
caled Newbury Port 600 Eakers of Land out of thirty thousand Eakers of
good Land so much for mad peopel of Larning makes them mad if thay had
kept to gether they wood have bin the sekent town in this stat A bout halfe
of boston Now men mad to be in offess it hurts the peopel ot Large Like
Carying the Innegent Lam to the slarter Now it would done to dewide the
North from the south all won what I have Leade down but now keep to
gether it is Like man and wife in troue Love Now guving death in the
grander you will sous the glory I say keep to gether dont brak the Chane
Renoue brotherle Love Never fade Like my box in my garding be one grat
familey give way to one A Nother thous changes is the tide hie warter &
Loue warte hie tids & Loue tids for my part I have Liked all the kings all
three all our broken marchants cant have beaths of proffett gone and till the
ground goue to work is all that has bin to Coleage goue with slipers and
promis to pay and Never pay only with A Lye I gess 4 fifths is Coleage Lant
or devel Lant or pretended to be onnest free masions but are to the Contrey
for give me for gessing I hope it is Not so the Leaned is for Leovs & Littel
fishes moses was but A man and Aaron thay had sum devel like my selfe
man is the same give him power I say the Cloak Cukement maters the worst
of cheats we hant got ony N Port wee are Noted to be the first in the North
sabed Day is Not halfe A Nuf Night meatens it maks work for the Docters
and Nuses Caaching Could but them Lives breed fast to mak up for them
that dies poor creaters I pittey them so preast Riden it is wickard to leave
poor sols in to the grave all our minesters are imported Very good men foull
of Love of Crist I kep them A mit Amen at present.
[10]
The yong man that doth most all my Carving his work is much Liked by
our grat men I felt founney one day I thort I would ask sade young man
whare he was bone he sade Now whare what is all that Now whare was
your mother over shaderd I says my mother was if I was to gess No I tell in
Now town borne o on the water I says you beat me and so wee Lafed and it
the A tipe of man kind what is that 35 or 36 years gone A town caled
Noubry all won the Younited states Noubry peopel kept to gether quiet till
the Larned groed strong the farmers was 12 out of 20 thay wanted to have
the offesers in the Contry the Eaned in the see port wanted to have them
there geering A Rose groued warme fite thay wood in Law thay went the
Jnrel Cort to be sot of finely thay go there Eands Answered the see port
caled Newbury Port 600 Eakers of Land out of thirty thousand Eakers of
good Land so much for mad peopel of Larning makes them mad if thay had
kept to gether they wood have bin the sekent town in this stat A bout halfe
of boston Now men mad to be in offess it hurts the peopel ot Large Like
Carying the Innegent Lam to the slarter Now it would done to dewide the
North from the south all won what I have Leade down but now keep to
gether it is Like man and wife in troue Love Now guving death in the
grander you will sous the glory I say keep to gether dont brak the Chane
Renoue brotherle Love Never fade Like my box in my garding be one grat
familey give way to one A Nother thous changes is the tide hie warter &
Loue warte hie tids & Loue tids for my part I have Liked all the kings all
three all our broken marchants cant have beaths of proffett gone and till the
ground goue to work is all that has bin to Coleage goue with slipers and
promis to pay and Never pay only with A Lye I gess 4 fifths is Coleage Lant
or devel Lant or pretended to be onnest free masions but are to the Contrey
for give me for gessing I hope it is Not so the Leaned is for Leovs & Littel
fishes moses was but A man and Aaron thay had sum devel like my selfe
man is the same give him power I say the Cloak Cukement maters the worst
of cheats we hant got ony N Port wee are Noted to be the first in the North
sabed Day is Not halfe A Nuf Night meatens it maks work for the Docters
and Nuses Caaching Could but them Lives breed fast to mak up for them
that dies poor creaters I pittey them so preast Riden it is wickard to leave
poor sols in to the grave all our minesters are imported Very good men foull
of Love of Crist I kep them A mit Amen at present.
[10]
The yong man that doth most all my Carving his work is much Liked by
our grat men I felt founney one day I thort I would ask sade young man
whare he was bone he sade Now whare what is all that Now whare was
your mother over shaderd I says my mother was if I was to gess No I tell in
Now town borne o on the water I says you beat me and so wee Lafed and it
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shuk of the spleane shoue him A Crows Neast he can carve one A fine
fellow—I shold had all marbel if any bodey could to me the prise so I have
sent for 8 busts for kings and grat men and 1 Lion & 2 gray hounds I hope
to hear in foue Days to all onnest men
TIMOTHY DEXTER.
mister printter I must goue sum fourder I have got one good pen my
fortin has bin hard very hard that is I have hard Noks on my head 4 difrent
times from A boy to this Day twice taken up for dead two beating was a
Lawyer then he was mad be Case the peopel at Large Declared me Lord
Dexter king of Chester this at my Contrey seet 26 mils from N Port my
plase there is the fist from solt water to Canedy——this Lawyer that
broused me was Judg Livermore son Arther the same Creater borid 200
dolors sum monts be fore this & then Oaded me he beat his bene factter it
has bin my Luck to be yoused ten times wos by them I doue the most for I
have Lost first and Last as much as A tun of silver grose my wife that was
had 400 wut of silver Abraham bishup that married my dafter ten years
gone him & shee sence then & my son Samuel L Dexter upwards of
seventeene thousand Dolors the Rest by hamsher Col by Rougs has gokbey
sekkent handed preasts Deakens gruntters whimers Every foue minnets A
sith or Christ wee must be Leave in Crist o o Jeases will save us I thinks
sum times the saving solt & smoak & solt peater will in time be very dear if
it is yous the more smoak or the preasts will be out of work Littel Like
fister france I Lade out A blan to have holerdays one Day in ten 24 years
gone I thort it would save the Natision grat Deale of money sir in one
sentrey then the preasts wood have time to studdery then hamer Down
smartly make the sulffer smoak in their Nostils under the Cloak of bread &
wine the hipecricks Cloven foots thay Doue it to get power to Lie and Not
be mistruested all wars mostly by the suf the broken marchents are fond of
war for thay hant Nothing to Lous & the minesters in all wars the Case o
[11]
god Leave the Divel out when it is all Divel If you can bare the trouth I will
tell the trouth man is the best Annemel and the worst all men are more or
less the Divel but there is sit of ods sum halfe sum three qurters the other
part beast of Difrent kind of beasts sum one thing and sum a Nother sum
Like a Dog sum Lik horses sum bare sum Cat sum Lion sum lik ouls sum a
fellow—I shold had all marbel if any bodey could to me the prise so I have
sent for 8 busts for kings and grat men and 1 Lion & 2 gray hounds I hope
to hear in foue Days to all onnest men
TIMOTHY DEXTER.
mister printter I must goue sum fourder I have got one good pen my
fortin has bin hard very hard that is I have hard Noks on my head 4 difrent
times from A boy to this Day twice taken up for dead two beating was a
Lawyer then he was mad be Case the peopel at Large Declared me Lord
Dexter king of Chester this at my Contrey seet 26 mils from N Port my
plase there is the fist from solt water to Canedy——this Lawyer that
broused me was Judg Livermore son Arther the same Creater borid 200
dolors sum monts be fore this & then Oaded me he beat his bene factter it
has bin my Luck to be yoused ten times wos by them I doue the most for I
have Lost first and Last as much as A tun of silver grose my wife that was
had 400 wut of silver Abraham bishup that married my dafter ten years
gone him & shee sence then & my son Samuel L Dexter upwards of
seventeene thousand Dolors the Rest by hamsher Col by Rougs has gokbey
sekkent handed preasts Deakens gruntters whimers Every foue minnets A
sith or Christ wee must be Leave in Crist o o Jeases will save us I thinks
sum times the saving solt & smoak & solt peater will in time be very dear if
it is yous the more smoak or the preasts will be out of work Littel Like
fister france I Lade out A blan to have holerdays one Day in ten 24 years
gone I thort it would save the Natision grat Deale of money sir in one
sentrey then the preasts wood have time to studdery then hamer Down
smartly make the sulffer smoak in their Nostils under the Cloak of bread &
wine the hipecricks Cloven foots thay Doue it to get power to Lie and Not
be mistruested all wars mostly by the suf the broken marchents are fond of
war for thay hant Nothing to Lous & the minesters in all wars the Case o
[11]
god Leave the Divel out when it is all Divel If you can bare the trouth I will
tell the trouth man is the best Annemel and the worst all men are more or
less the Divel but there is sit of ods sum halfe sum three qurters the other
part beast of Difrent kind of beasts sum one thing and sum a Nother sum
Like a Dog sum Lik horses sum bare sum Cat sum Lion sum lik ouls sum a
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monkey sum wild Cat sum Lam sum A Dove sum a hogg sum a oxe sum a
snake I want Desepons to be Dun A way but thay wont Never be as Long os
prist Riden what Doue the preast prech to the Divel for all there hearaes old
& youn more or Less the Divel I Liked to sade so Divel preaches to Divels
Rebouking sin keep it up up up sayeth the hipacrits mockers of god habits
an Costom is the ods ods maks the diffrence I sees god in all plases the god
of Nater in all things wee Live and move in god he is the god of Nateer all
Nater is god take one Ellement from us one of the fore take the fier or the
water or or Eare or Earth wee are gone so wee Live in god Now Less us all
be good children doue all things Rite the strong must bare the Infremiteys
of the wicked shildren keep up tite Laws Draw the Ranes Littel harder stop
theavs as fast as you can bad trade sheuuing Nine Numbers was Rot in 23
owers when I had hold of the pen five owers & 35 minnets A sort ment A
sort ment is good in A shop————
The preasts fixes there goods six days then thay open shop on sundays to
sell there goods sum sets them of better than others bolerhed when a man is
so week he wont doue for A Lawyer mak a preast of him for week thing to
goue with week things the blind to Lead the blind so thay may fall into one
Dich and so thay goue throue the world darkiness but foue peopel have A
pinion of there one Not one in twenty as to this world goods and so it is as
to the other world to Inquire the way goue to a fryer our peopel A bout the
same thing only call it sumthing Else in Rum of a king call it presedent but
preasts have money to save sols I want to know what a sole is I wish to see
one Not a gizard I thinks the sole is the thinking part there is grat minds &
Littel minds grat sols & Littel sols grat minds & littel minds According to
the hevdey boddeys that has the power of our boddeys the same mother and
the same father and six children how thay will differ in Looks complexions
and axons sum for grat thing sum for littel things sumthing Nouw I say I
say my figers will pay Intress money prove it first going over my brige sum
more tole then helping the markett of the town Leeting hoses tavern keepers
costom the honner to the town & my self.
TIMOTHY DEXTER.
[12]
snake I want Desepons to be Dun A way but thay wont Never be as Long os
prist Riden what Doue the preast prech to the Divel for all there hearaes old
& youn more or Less the Divel I Liked to sade so Divel preaches to Divels
Rebouking sin keep it up up up sayeth the hipacrits mockers of god habits
an Costom is the ods ods maks the diffrence I sees god in all plases the god
of Nater in all things wee Live and move in god he is the god of Nateer all
Nater is god take one Ellement from us one of the fore take the fier or the
water or or Eare or Earth wee are gone so wee Live in god Now Less us all
be good children doue all things Rite the strong must bare the Infremiteys
of the wicked shildren keep up tite Laws Draw the Ranes Littel harder stop
theavs as fast as you can bad trade sheuuing Nine Numbers was Rot in 23
owers when I had hold of the pen five owers & 35 minnets A sort ment A
sort ment is good in A shop————
The preasts fixes there goods six days then thay open shop on sundays to
sell there goods sum sets them of better than others bolerhed when a man is
so week he wont doue for A Lawyer mak a preast of him for week thing to
goue with week things the blind to Lead the blind so thay may fall into one
Dich and so thay goue throue the world darkiness but foue peopel have A
pinion of there one Not one in twenty as to this world goods and so it is as
to the other world to Inquire the way goue to a fryer our peopel A bout the
same thing only call it sumthing Else in Rum of a king call it presedent but
preasts have money to save sols I want to know what a sole is I wish to see
one Not a gizard I thinks the sole is the thinking part there is grat minds &
Littel minds grat sols & Littel sols grat minds & littel minds According to
the hevdey boddeys that has the power of our boddeys the same mother and
the same father and six children how thay will differ in Looks complexions
and axons sum for grat thing sum for littel things sumthing Nouw I say I
say my figers will pay Intress money prove it first going over my brige sum
more tole then helping the markett of the town Leeting hoses tavern keepers
costom the honner to the town & my self.
TIMOTHY DEXTER.
[12]
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one thing fourder I have bin convarted upwards 30 years quite Resined
for the day the grat day I wish the preast Node as much as I think I doue
there harts would Leap up to glory to be so Reader for the time of Rejoisng
to goue to goue to be maried to what a fine widow with hur lamp bourning
the Lamps trimed with glorey the shaking quickers after thay git convarted
and there sins washed A way thay stay at home & Let theus goue unclene
and so it is much so with me I stay at home praying for theavs and Rougs to
be saved Day and Night praying for siners poour creaters my hous keeper is
in the dark was then bad Crasey to be saved shee says shee has sind against
the holey gost I have Asked her what is shee says it is sumthing but cant
find out way sends for the preast coms what is the mater gost gost Dear sir
& the minester makes a prayer the gost went of mostly not all part stayed
behind shee has bin Crasey Ever sence the prest cant Lay the sepont houe
many Nick Names three things have so sayeth the preacher Amen Amen see
fath I du
Noue mister printer sir I was at Noue haven 7 years and seven monts past
at commencent Degrees going on 40 boys was tuck degrees to doue good or
Not good the ole man with the hat on told them to suddey houeman Nater &
walk as A band of brothers from that day I thort that all thous that was baot
up to Coleage the meaning was to git there Liveing out of the Labeer If the
Coleages was to continer one sentrey & keep up the game recken the cost of
All from there cradel to 22 years old all there fathers and gurd inands to Lay
out one houndred years intress & intress upon intress atress gess at it & cast
it see houe many houndred thousand millons of Dolors it would Com to to
mad Rougs and theavs to plunder the Labering man that sweats to git his
bread good common Laning is the best sum good books is best well under
stoud be onnest dont be preast Riden it is a cheat all be onnest in all things
Now feare Let this goue as you find it my way speling houe is the strangest
man
T DEXTER
for the day the grat day I wish the preast Node as much as I think I doue
there harts would Leap up to glory to be so Reader for the time of Rejoisng
to goue to goue to be maried to what a fine widow with hur lamp bourning
the Lamps trimed with glorey the shaking quickers after thay git convarted
and there sins washed A way thay stay at home & Let theus goue unclene
and so it is much so with me I stay at home praying for theavs and Rougs to
be saved Day and Night praying for siners poour creaters my hous keeper is
in the dark was then bad Crasey to be saved shee says shee has sind against
the holey gost I have Asked her what is shee says it is sumthing but cant
find out way sends for the preast coms what is the mater gost gost Dear sir
& the minester makes a prayer the gost went of mostly not all part stayed
behind shee has bin Crasey Ever sence the prest cant Lay the sepont houe
many Nick Names three things have so sayeth the preacher Amen Amen see
fath I du
Noue mister printer sir I was at Noue haven 7 years and seven monts past
at commencent Degrees going on 40 boys was tuck degrees to doue good or
Not good the ole man with the hat on told them to suddey houeman Nater &
walk as A band of brothers from that day I thort that all thous that was baot
up to Coleage the meaning was to git there Liveing out of the Labeer If the
Coleages was to continer one sentrey & keep up the game recken the cost of
All from there cradel to 22 years old all there fathers and gurd inands to Lay
out one houndred years intress & intress upon intress atress gess at it & cast
it see houe many houndred thousand millons of Dolors it would Com to to
mad Rougs and theavs to plunder the Labering man that sweats to git his
bread good common Laning is the best sum good books is best well under
stoud be onnest dont be preast Riden it is a cheat all be onnest in all things
Now feare Let this goue as you find it my way speling houe is the strangest
man
T DEXTER
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fourder mister for A minester to git the tone is a grat pint when I lived in
hamsher one Noue Lit babstis babler sobed A way just fineshing his sermon
he [13]
says o good Lord I hop you will consider what foue hints I have given
and I will cleare it up sum time hence I am much wore down now the
wether being very worme to day Less bray & so went on fire fire &
brimstone & grunting & fithing and tried to cry & snufel & blow the sconks
horne & sum the old souls & yong fouls sot to crying I tuck my hat and
went out houe mankind & women kind is imposed upon all over the world
more or less by preast craft o for shame o for shame I pittey them be onnest
doue as you would wish others to doue unto you in all things Now fear of
Death Amen
T D'r
fourder what difrent wous wee have of this world & the other world two
good women Lived in A town whare I once lived one was sick of a
consumson Near Death both belonged to the Church very onnest only the
well woman was week in wous & thing says unto the sik woman I thinks
you will see my housbon doue tell him I and my son A greus very well and
wee are all well and the sow is piged and got seaven prittey pigs and fare
you well sister this I beleave is serting troue & so fare the well—I shall com
A gane in Littel while
and fourdermore I am for sum foue Decephons but very foue fouer then
Deathe preast craft is very good for what to make old women gront and
yong children cry and old fouls fling snort o ye's and brak up farimeys
Doun by untrouths Lying and swaring to A Lye stop I am a Live old me I
have heard your wickard stuff you have ingerd my frinds a plenty and if you
dont stop I will call forth one Abraham bishup to put Niklos and all that trys
to keep up Lying if there should be any such stuf in the Land Church
members pant to be fonnd of Desepchon thay are perfect but if there is any
put them with the tufe bourne the Roubege pise on it or that feare Not wind
or filth go by the Rackel breed and wos then tourd I Like to sade Now shite
stink strong bread & wine master botill houe is the boull a black man a frind
to John mekel jentel man from A Crows Nest Whare Now where ass Cole
cole ass whare whare Now whare o yefs sum whare deare oilen Now the
hamsher one Noue Lit babstis babler sobed A way just fineshing his sermon
he [13]
says o good Lord I hop you will consider what foue hints I have given
and I will cleare it up sum time hence I am much wore down now the
wether being very worme to day Less bray & so went on fire fire &
brimstone & grunting & fithing and tried to cry & snufel & blow the sconks
horne & sum the old souls & yong fouls sot to crying I tuck my hat and
went out houe mankind & women kind is imposed upon all over the world
more or less by preast craft o for shame o for shame I pittey them be onnest
doue as you would wish others to doue unto you in all things Now fear of
Death Amen
T D'r
fourder what difrent wous wee have of this world & the other world two
good women Lived in A town whare I once lived one was sick of a
consumson Near Death both belonged to the Church very onnest only the
well woman was week in wous & thing says unto the sik woman I thinks
you will see my housbon doue tell him I and my son A greus very well and
wee are all well and the sow is piged and got seaven prittey pigs and fare
you well sister this I beleave is serting troue & so fare the well—I shall com
A gane in Littel while
and fourdermore I am for sum foue Decephons but very foue fouer then
Deathe preast craft is very good for what to make old women gront and
yong children cry and old fouls fling snort o ye's and brak up farimeys
Doun by untrouths Lying and swaring to A Lye stop I am a Live old me I
have heard your wickard stuff you have ingerd my frinds a plenty and if you
dont stop I will call forth one Abraham bishup to put Niklos and all that trys
to keep up Lying if there should be any such stuf in the Land Church
members pant to be fonnd of Desepchon thay are perfect but if there is any
put them with the tufe bourne the Roubege pise on it or that feare Not wind
or filth go by the Rackel breed and wos then tourd I Like to sade Now shite
stink strong bread & wine master botill houe is the boull a black man a frind
to John mekel jentel man from A Crows Nest Whare Now where ass Cole
cole ass whare whare Now whare o yefs sum whare deare oilen Now the
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Ingons Lived there onle that Cant be he was from hell whare his or was
brother came from oyes oyess o yess a Crows Neast or orgen pouler Down
[14]
FROM THE MUSEUM OF
TIMOTHY DEXTER, ESQ.
Ime the first Lord in the younited States of A mercary Now of
Newburyport it is the voise of the peopel and I cant Help it and so Let it
goue Now as I must be Lord there will foler many more Lords prittey soune
for it Dont hurt A Cat Nor the mouse Nor the son Nor the water Nor the
Eare then goue on all in Easey Now bons broaken all is well all in Love
Now I be gin to Lay the Corner ston with grat Remembrence of my father
Jorge Washington the grate herow 17 sentreys past before we found so good
A father to his children and Now gone to Rest Now to shoue my Love to
my father and grate Carieters I will shoue the world one of the grate
Wonders of the world in 15 months if Now man mourders me in Dors or out
Dors such A mouserum on Earth will annonce O Lord thou knowest to be
troue fourder hear me good Lord I am A goueing to Let or shildren know
Now to see good Lord what has bin in the world grat wase back to own fore
fathers Not old plimeth but stop to Addom & Eve to shoue 45 figers two
Leged and fore Leged becose we Cant Doue well without fore Legd in the
first plase they are our foude in the Next plase to make out Dexters
mouseum I wants 4 Lions to defend thous grat and mistry men from East to
wist from North to South which Now are at the plases Rased the Lam is Not
Readey in short meater if Agreabel I forme A good and peasabel govement
on my Land in Newburyport Compleat I take 3 presedents hamsher govener
all to Noue York and the grate mister John Jay is one, that maks 2 in that
state the king of grat britton mister pitt Roufus King Cros over to france
Loues the 16 and then the grate bonnepartey the grate and there segnetoure
Crow biddey—I Command pease and the gratest brotherly Love and Not
fade be Linked to gether with that best of troue Love so as to govern all
nasions on the fass of the gloub not to tiranize over them but to put them to
order if any Despout shall A Rise as to boundreys or Any maturs of
Importence it is Left france and grat britton and Amacarey to be setteled A
brother came from oyes oyess o yess a Crows Neast or orgen pouler Down
[14]
FROM THE MUSEUM OF
TIMOTHY DEXTER, ESQ.
Ime the first Lord in the younited States of A mercary Now of
Newburyport it is the voise of the peopel and I cant Help it and so Let it
goue Now as I must be Lord there will foler many more Lords prittey soune
for it Dont hurt A Cat Nor the mouse Nor the son Nor the water Nor the
Eare then goue on all in Easey Now bons broaken all is well all in Love
Now I be gin to Lay the Corner ston with grat Remembrence of my father
Jorge Washington the grate herow 17 sentreys past before we found so good
A father to his children and Now gone to Rest Now to shoue my Love to
my father and grate Carieters I will shoue the world one of the grate
Wonders of the world in 15 months if Now man mourders me in Dors or out
Dors such A mouserum on Earth will annonce O Lord thou knowest to be
troue fourder hear me good Lord I am A goueing to Let or shildren know
Now to see good Lord what has bin in the world grat wase back to own fore
fathers Not old plimeth but stop to Addom & Eve to shoue 45 figers two
Leged and fore Leged becose we Cant Doue well without fore Legd in the
first plase they are our foude in the Next plase to make out Dexters
mouseum I wants 4 Lions to defend thous grat and mistry men from East to
wist from North to South which Now are at the plases Rased the Lam is Not
Readey in short meater if Agreabel I forme A good and peasabel govement
on my Land in Newburyport Compleat I take 3 presedents hamsher govener
all to Noue York and the grate mister John Jay is one, that maks 2 in that
state the king of grat britton mister pitt Roufus King Cros over to france
Loues the 16 and then the grate bonnepartey the grate and there segnetoure
Crow biddey—I Command pease and the gratest brotherly Love and Not
fade be Linked to gether with that best of troue Love so as to govern all
nasions on the fass of the gloub not to tiranize over them but to put them to
order if any Despout shall A Rise as to boundreys or Any maturs of
Importence it is Left france and grat britton and Amacarey to be setteled A
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Congress to be always in france all Despouts is to be thare seteled and this
[15]
may be Dun this will balless powers and then all wars Dun A way there fore
I have the Lam to lay Dow with the Lion Now this may be Dun if thos three
powers would A geray to Lay what is called Devel one side and Not Carry
the gentelman pack hors Any longer but shake him off as dust on your feet
and Laff at him there is a grate noise aboute a toue Leged Creter he says I
am going to set sade black Divel there stop he would scare the womans so
there would be No youse for the bilding I should have to E rect sum Noue
won Now I stop hear I puts the Devil Long with the bull for he is a bulling
2 Leged Annemal stop put him one side Near Soloman Looking with
Soloman to Ladey venus Now stop wind up there is grat ods in froute I will
Let you know the sekret houe you may see the Devel stand on your head
before a Loucking glass and take a bibel in to your bousom fast 40 owers
and look in the loucking glass there is no Devilif you dont see the ould
fellow but I affirm you will see that ould Devel
Unto you all mankind Com to my hous to mock and sneare whi ye Dont
you Lafe be fore god or I meane your betters think the heir power Dont
know thorts and Axsions Now I will tell you good and bad it is Not pelite to
Com to see what the bare walls keep of my ground if you are gentel men
you would stay Away when all is Dun in marble I expect to goue out myself
to Help if thous grat men will send on there Likeness all over the younited
States I wish all the printers to give Notis if pleases to in form by printen in
the Nouspapers for the good of the holl of man kind———
I waus to make my Enemys grin in time Lik A Cat over a hot puding and
goue Away and hang there heads Doun Like a Dogg bin After sheep gilty
stop see I am Afrade I Rite toue hash my peopel Complane of backker
spittel maks work to Cleane it up——in the women skouls A bout it spit in
ther hankershif or not spit A tall I must say sumthing or I should say
Nothing therefore make sum Noise in the world when I git so ouely to Nash
my goms and grising for water and that is salt water when brot A yong
Devel to bring it and A Scoyer to wate and tend on gentelmen A black Suier
his breth Smelt wos then bram stone by far but Let the Devel goue in to
Darknes an takeld his due to Descare mankind for A Littel while this
Cloven foot is seen be sum but the trap will over hall the Devel in tim I
pittey this poore black man I thinc his master wants purging a Littel to har
ber mr Devel A most but I did Not say Let him Run A way good Nit mr
[15]
may be Dun this will balless powers and then all wars Dun A way there fore
I have the Lam to lay Dow with the Lion Now this may be Dun if thos three
powers would A geray to Lay what is called Devel one side and Not Carry
the gentelman pack hors Any longer but shake him off as dust on your feet
and Laff at him there is a grate noise aboute a toue Leged Creter he says I
am going to set sade black Divel there stop he would scare the womans so
there would be No youse for the bilding I should have to E rect sum Noue
won Now I stop hear I puts the Devil Long with the bull for he is a bulling
2 Leged Annemal stop put him one side Near Soloman Looking with
Soloman to Ladey venus Now stop wind up there is grat ods in froute I will
Let you know the sekret houe you may see the Devel stand on your head
before a Loucking glass and take a bibel in to your bousom fast 40 owers
and look in the loucking glass there is no Devilif you dont see the ould
fellow but I affirm you will see that ould Devel
Unto you all mankind Com to my hous to mock and sneare whi ye Dont
you Lafe be fore god or I meane your betters think the heir power Dont
know thorts and Axsions Now I will tell you good and bad it is Not pelite to
Com to see what the bare walls keep of my ground if you are gentel men
you would stay Away when all is Dun in marble I expect to goue out myself
to Help if thous grat men will send on there Likeness all over the younited
States I wish all the printers to give Notis if pleases to in form by printen in
the Nouspapers for the good of the holl of man kind———
I waus to make my Enemys grin in time Lik A Cat over a hot puding and
goue Away and hang there heads Doun Like a Dogg bin After sheep gilty
stop see I am Afrade I Rite toue hash my peopel Complane of backker
spittel maks work to Cleane it up——in the women skouls A bout it spit in
ther hankershif or not spit A tall I must say sumthing or I should say
Nothing therefore make sum Noise in the world when I git so ouely to Nash
my goms and grising for water and that is salt water when brot A yong
Devel to bring it and A Scoyer to wate and tend on gentelmen A black Suier
his breth Smelt wos then bram stone by far but Let the Devel goue in to
Darknes an takeld his due to Descare mankind for A Littel while this
Cloven foot is seen be sum but the trap will over hall the Devel in tim I
pittey this poore black man I thinc his master wants purging a Littel to har
ber mr Devel A most but I did Not say Let him Run A way good Nit mr
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Devel Cary the sword and mwney with you tak John mekel Jentel man good
Not
T DEXTER
[16]
THIS COMETH GREETING
mister printers the Igrent or the Nowing wons says I ort to Doue as thay
doue to keep up Cheats or the same thing Desephons to Deseave the Igrent
so wee may Cheat and Likewise have wars and plunder my wish is all Liers
may have there part of fier and brimstone in this world or at least sum part
of it or Else the gouement is Not good it will want pourging soone if A
Lawyer is to way Lay a man and brouse him unmassely All most to Death A
sitteson that pays twentey fore Dolors for Careags and not more then one
Dolor A week to ment the hiways and my being Libperel is in part of this
bloddey Afare No sauage would beat a man as I was beaten almost to Death
I Did not know houe these men Came to keep sade Lawyer from quit killing
of me till sum time After three men saw the Axon of the blodey seene
without massey and carried sade Dexter in to the house sun fanting or Neare
to se and behold the orful site bleading and blind of one Eye twoue
brousings in two hours at Least Now Laws in this part of the world for A
man of money to Live those I lend money to and A Lawyer and others thay
youse me the wost it maks Inemys then these Rogs if there is Any that call
me A soull and pick a Qualrel with me A bout my Nous papers so as to pay
the Lawyer Craft to make up the molton Calf A molton Calfe Not an Ox
Now the town of Chester has Lost two Hundred wate of Siver at Least I
beleuv more money Now thay may have me in the town or A Lawyer
Chouse for yourselves my frinds and felow mortels pease be with you All A
men selagh finely brethren sum thing more Coming——
Chester, Sept. 29, 1796.
TIMOTHY DEXTER
Not
T DEXTER
[16]
THIS COMETH GREETING
mister printers the Igrent or the Nowing wons says I ort to Doue as thay
doue to keep up Cheats or the same thing Desephons to Deseave the Igrent
so wee may Cheat and Likewise have wars and plunder my wish is all Liers
may have there part of fier and brimstone in this world or at least sum part
of it or Else the gouement is Not good it will want pourging soone if A
Lawyer is to way Lay a man and brouse him unmassely All most to Death A
sitteson that pays twentey fore Dolors for Careags and not more then one
Dolor A week to ment the hiways and my being Libperel is in part of this
bloddey Afare No sauage would beat a man as I was beaten almost to Death
I Did not know houe these men Came to keep sade Lawyer from quit killing
of me till sum time After three men saw the Axon of the blodey seene
without massey and carried sade Dexter in to the house sun fanting or Neare
to se and behold the orful site bleading and blind of one Eye twoue
brousings in two hours at Least Now Laws in this part of the world for A
man of money to Live those I lend money to and A Lawyer and others thay
youse me the wost it maks Inemys then these Rogs if there is Any that call
me A soull and pick a Qualrel with me A bout my Nous papers so as to pay
the Lawyer Craft to make up the molton Calf A molton Calfe Not an Ox
Now the town of Chester has Lost two Hundred wate of Siver at Least I
beleuv more money Now thay may have me in the town or A Lawyer
Chouse for yourselves my frinds and felow mortels pease be with you All A
men selagh finely brethren sum thing more Coming——
Chester, Sept. 29, 1796.
TIMOTHY DEXTER
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For the Impartial Herald.
Messrs. Blunt & March,
I say to whom it may concern—to the majesty of the people of
Newburyport, Greeting—
It costs Eight hundred Dollars a year to support a watch in this town, and
yer gentlemen's windows are broken, fences pulled down and Cellars
broken open, and much other misdemeanors done at night. Are the watch
asleep, or are they afraid to detect those who are guilty of such practises?
Boast not of it if you call this Liberty and Equality. Newburyport has had
the[17]name of being a very civil worthy place; it is a great pity some bad boys
or young men should disgrace it. I hope our worthy and honorable rulers
will bring those rude lads to see themselves and lick the dust like serpents,
and ask forgiveness of their betters, and do so no more, but repent and live.
Now fellow citizens is it wisdom, is it policy, to use a man or men so
shocking bad as to oblige them to leave the town where they paid one
Dollar a day to support government?
A friend to good order, honor to whom it belongs—to great men a friend
—to all good citizens and honest men good bye.
Whereas many philosophers has judged or guessed at many things about
this world, and so on. Now I suppose I may guess, as it is guessing times. I
guess the world is one very large living creature, and always was, and
always will be without any end from everlasting to everlasting, and no end.
What grows on this large creature is trees and many other things. In the
room of hair the rocks is moulds. This is called land where the hair grows,
the belly the sea—all kinds of fish is the worms in the belly. This large body
wants dressing to get our living of this creature and by industry we get a
living—we and all the animal creation is less than fleas in comparison on
the back or belly of this very large immense body. Among the hairs to work
Messrs. Blunt & March,
I say to whom it may concern—to the majesty of the people of
Newburyport, Greeting—
It costs Eight hundred Dollars a year to support a watch in this town, and
yer gentlemen's windows are broken, fences pulled down and Cellars
broken open, and much other misdemeanors done at night. Are the watch
asleep, or are they afraid to detect those who are guilty of such practises?
Boast not of it if you call this Liberty and Equality. Newburyport has had
the[17]name of being a very civil worthy place; it is a great pity some bad boys
or young men should disgrace it. I hope our worthy and honorable rulers
will bring those rude lads to see themselves and lick the dust like serpents,
and ask forgiveness of their betters, and do so no more, but repent and live.
Now fellow citizens is it wisdom, is it policy, to use a man or men so
shocking bad as to oblige them to leave the town where they paid one
Dollar a day to support government?
A friend to good order, honor to whom it belongs—to great men a friend
—to all good citizens and honest men good bye.
Whereas many philosophers has judged or guessed at many things about
this world, and so on. Now I suppose I may guess, as it is guessing times. I
guess the world is one very large living creature, and always was, and
always will be without any end from everlasting to everlasting, and no end.
What grows on this large creature is trees and many other things. In the
room of hair the rocks is moulds. This is called land where the hair grows,
the belly the sea—all kinds of fish is the worms in the belly. This large body
wants dressing to get our living of this creature and by industry we get a
living—we and all the animal creation is less than fleas in comparison on
the back or belly of this very large immense body. Among the hairs to work
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this great body is that of nature, past finding out.—All we know is we are
here, we come into the world crying and go out groaning. Mankind is the
master beast on the earth—in the sea, the whale is the head fish—the minim
is the smallest fish—the great fish eat up the little ones, and so not only
destroy one another, but they are master over the whole of beasts and fish,
even over a lion, therefore man is the masterly beast and the worst of the
whole—they know the most, and act the worst according to what they
know. Seeing mankind so bad by nature, I think when the candle goes out,
men and women is done, they will lay as dirt or rocks till the great gun
fires, and when that goes off the gun will be so large that the gun will
contain nine hundred million tons of the best of good powder, then that will
shake and bring all the bones together, then the world will be to an end. All
[18]
kinds of music will be going on, funding systems will be laid aside, the
melody will be very great. Now why cant you all believe the above written
as well as many other things to be true; as well as what was set forth in the
last Centinel concerning digging up a frog twenty five feet below the
surface, where it was most as hard as a rock—there was his shape like
taking a stone out of a rock—This is from a minister. Now why wont you
believe me as well.
WONDER OF WONDERS!
How great the soul is! Do not you all wonder & admire to see and behold
and hear? Can you all believe half the truth, and admire to hear the wonders
how great the soul is—only behold—past finding out! Only see how large
the soul is!—that if a man is drowned in the sea, what a great bubble comes
up out of the top of the water! the last of the man dying under water—this is
wind—is the soul that is the last to ascend out of the deep to glory—it is the
breath from on high doth go on high to glory. The bubble is the soul. A
young fellow's for gunning for the good of bodies and souls.
here, we come into the world crying and go out groaning. Mankind is the
master beast on the earth—in the sea, the whale is the head fish—the minim
is the smallest fish—the great fish eat up the little ones, and so not only
destroy one another, but they are master over the whole of beasts and fish,
even over a lion, therefore man is the masterly beast and the worst of the
whole—they know the most, and act the worst according to what they
know. Seeing mankind so bad by nature, I think when the candle goes out,
men and women is done, they will lay as dirt or rocks till the great gun
fires, and when that goes off the gun will be so large that the gun will
contain nine hundred million tons of the best of good powder, then that will
shake and bring all the bones together, then the world will be to an end. All
[18]
kinds of music will be going on, funding systems will be laid aside, the
melody will be very great. Now why cant you all believe the above written
as well as many other things to be true; as well as what was set forth in the
last Centinel concerning digging up a frog twenty five feet below the
surface, where it was most as hard as a rock—there was his shape like
taking a stone out of a rock—This is from a minister. Now why wont you
believe me as well.
WONDER OF WONDERS!
How great the soul is! Do not you all wonder & admire to see and behold
and hear? Can you all believe half the truth, and admire to hear the wonders
how great the soul is—only behold—past finding out! Only see how large
the soul is!—that if a man is drowned in the sea, what a great bubble comes
up out of the top of the water! the last of the man dying under water—this is
wind—is the soul that is the last to ascend out of the deep to glory—it is the
breath from on high doth go on high to glory. The bubble is the soul. A
young fellow's for gunning for the good of bodies and souls.
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My frinds & felow mortals there is A first Cose of all things most Comle
so it Came to pass that one Abraham bish up got A qanted with my Dafter—
shee A babey he Old in Eage and Larning and Colage Lant & Lawyer Lant
and preast Lant and masonik Lant and Divel Lant he was then Nothing as
for Cash he being A fox and A old fox he was After the graps he tasted of
them he Cryed out fower this Anne meal sent my Dafter home he sad A b
did Not git all the Lovs & Littel fishes but got A part and Now 9 years I
have Now had my Dafter Crasey in & by the Cose of this wild A & b hell
on Earth o o pittey me All good felow mortels sade Creater A b mad with
Larning & as pour as A snake and as proud as Lousfer he sade his father
was worth twenty thosand Dolors & he was Not more than five thousand
Dolors he send for bishup bass to be mared befor dublessed & Insisted to be
maried he says Daxter may Crye them Down in the Lore Reogon After sum
[19]
time thay got published then he in sisted Not to have Any witness went and
hid finly my gost my wife that was the gost 13 yearst Last march thay
where maried I was maried to the gost thirtey five Last may I have bin in
hell all the time more so sence Abraham bishup got in to my house he hurt
me and familey one tun of silver it was the Cose of my parting with mis
Dexter Now I Am free Now for A wife that has A sole the gost was A gisard
& A Cose all Round her A b striking my Dafter on hur side as shee swares
to grat Lawyer Dexter and to many others I be Leave it that knows the
trouth the bloue he gave hur on the side shee had to put plasters on her side
Neare three years when Likker is in the wit is scattered A b is the beast or
Creater two Leged Conekett boull short Nek boull head thik hare big
sholders black Corlley hare he wants to be A god but what I sot sade Creater
Down at short A quatence I Can prove it my selfe by men of the sekent
magentoude my gesing of the Creater it tourned out According to my
gessing and when I see my father the grat good man father Thomas gefsion
I will Let the Cat out of the bag and give Lite to the blind sade A b will
Doue for sum offess Everye Annemel will Doue for sumthing A b will mak
a midling good CAMP COLLEMON A thing hier if I am a Roug in grane
so be it A Lepard Cant Alter hur spots Nor beaver wont groue on A houk
back I be Leave if my father the presente koue the holl trouth of A b
treatment to my Dafter from her mouth the grat man woul shead tears with
greafe and all good peopel Like wise shocking is the A fare
I am
so it Came to pass that one Abraham bish up got A qanted with my Dafter—
shee A babey he Old in Eage and Larning and Colage Lant & Lawyer Lant
and preast Lant and masonik Lant and Divel Lant he was then Nothing as
for Cash he being A fox and A old fox he was After the graps he tasted of
them he Cryed out fower this Anne meal sent my Dafter home he sad A b
did Not git all the Lovs & Littel fishes but got A part and Now 9 years I
have Now had my Dafter Crasey in & by the Cose of this wild A & b hell
on Earth o o pittey me All good felow mortels sade Creater A b mad with
Larning & as pour as A snake and as proud as Lousfer he sade his father
was worth twenty thosand Dolors & he was Not more than five thousand
Dolors he send for bishup bass to be mared befor dublessed & Insisted to be
maried he says Daxter may Crye them Down in the Lore Reogon After sum
[19]
time thay got published then he in sisted Not to have Any witness went and
hid finly my gost my wife that was the gost 13 yearst Last march thay
where maried I was maried to the gost thirtey five Last may I have bin in
hell all the time more so sence Abraham bishup got in to my house he hurt
me and familey one tun of silver it was the Cose of my parting with mis
Dexter Now I Am free Now for A wife that has A sole the gost was A gisard
& A Cose all Round her A b striking my Dafter on hur side as shee swares
to grat Lawyer Dexter and to many others I be Leave it that knows the
trouth the bloue he gave hur on the side shee had to put plasters on her side
Neare three years when Likker is in the wit is scattered A b is the beast or
Creater two Leged Conekett boull short Nek boull head thik hare big
sholders black Corlley hare he wants to be A god but what I sot sade Creater
Down at short A quatence I Can prove it my selfe by men of the sekent
magentoude my gesing of the Creater it tourned out According to my
gessing and when I see my father the grat good man father Thomas gefsion
I will Let the Cat out of the bag and give Lite to the blind sade A b will
Doue for sum offess Everye Annemel will Doue for sumthing A b will mak
a midling good CAMP COLLEMON A thing hier if I am a Roug in grane
so be it A Lepard Cant Alter hur spots Nor beaver wont groue on A houk
back I be Leave if my father the presente koue the holl trouth of A b
treatment to my Dafter from her mouth the grat man woul shead tears with
greafe and all good peopel Like wise shocking is the A fare
I am
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TIMOTHY DEXTER
To man kind at Large I Never had the honour to be Long I meane to that
onerabel mesonek Order I Noked once once twise three times & the gohst
Apeared sade thou shall Not enter be Cose I have toue much knowledge in
my head—I sopose had I bin one then should bin to keep open Dors for
thives & Robers I have Rougs plentey without keeping tavern I Dont wont
Now Abrahams Nor Aney of the order only fict Ladeys mared and grat
gentil men that belongs out of the town mared peopol and fine widders I
wish to see with pleasur for I wonts to marey A fine wider for I hant had
Now wife for thirteene years Next orgest I gave the gost fore hundred wate
of silver to quit the state grat Lawyer passons the gient of the Law Rote the
[20]
Contract the Cose of it was that mis Dexter that was would have my Dafter
marey to A bishup Cosed the A greement the sole Cose she has two
trousteays which have the money to deal out the intress and shee is so
ginress shee bys hur Neadels I bys the pins & sisers & all things Else shee
Leaves the in tress in the hands of the trosteys I must have A Companon
soun good by all At present with glorey
TIMOTHY DEXTER
I ask for giveness of the world of mankind for teling the trouth I meane
No hurt to A flie only when he bits me then I kils the flye if I can I have bin
my one tromter fore teene years my tromter is Dead my haveing so many
wounds in fas and on my head I Doue it to make a good Lafe to keep my
sperets from sinking pittey me all good peopel A men
and fourder I maried widder frothingham shee had fore Children the holl
of all there stats was short of thirteene houndred Dolors this woman groed
mad shee sade shee must goue to hell goue ferting for I have fined A ganst
the holey goast un pardinbell sin shee was for making way with hur selfe in
To man kind at Large I Never had the honour to be Long I meane to that
onerabel mesonek Order I Noked once once twise three times & the gohst
Apeared sade thou shall Not enter be Cose I have toue much knowledge in
my head—I sopose had I bin one then should bin to keep open Dors for
thives & Robers I have Rougs plentey without keeping tavern I Dont wont
Now Abrahams Nor Aney of the order only fict Ladeys mared and grat
gentil men that belongs out of the town mared peopol and fine widders I
wish to see with pleasur for I wonts to marey A fine wider for I hant had
Now wife for thirteene years Next orgest I gave the gost fore hundred wate
of silver to quit the state grat Lawyer passons the gient of the Law Rote the
[20]
Contract the Cose of it was that mis Dexter that was would have my Dafter
marey to A bishup Cosed the A greement the sole Cose she has two
trousteays which have the money to deal out the intress and shee is so
ginress shee bys hur Neadels I bys the pins & sisers & all things Else shee
Leaves the in tress in the hands of the trosteys I must have A Companon
soun good by all At present with glorey
TIMOTHY DEXTER
I ask for giveness of the world of mankind for teling the trouth I meane
No hurt to A flie only when he bits me then I kils the flye if I can I have bin
my one tromter fore teene years my tromter is Dead my haveing so many
wounds in fas and on my head I Doue it to make a good Lafe to keep my
sperets from sinking pittey me all good peopel A men
and fourder I maried widder frothingham shee had fore Children the holl
of all there stats was short of thirteene houndred Dolors this woman groed
mad shee sade shee must goue to hell goue ferting for I have fined A ganst
the holey goast un pardinbell sin shee was for making way with hur selfe in
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three monts I got the best minister in town to Lay the gost he prayed hartey
but Could Not Laye the serpent only in part shee has bin Cracey Every
sence it is A wonder I am A Live two children suked hur brest—it is
heretarey two Children maried now Live upon me being disorded thay beat
me offen with Death Cloube & the old gost toue bad to say I be silent under
serkoumstanes I mus Cout & Roum sell the one of the first plases all most
in the world for I am in grat fear of my Life being taken A way such blows I
have had from toue or three gost in my familey is worth twelve hundred
hoxets of geamator best shougers Even A saxton to take the blows I wodent
for fifty milon Dollors words cant Express the bloddey war in my familey
three gosts all Noys Robing of me I must sell with tears in my Eys I Cant
see to Rite Aany more fare well I say good bye
T DEXTER
[21]
How Did Dexter make his money Inw ye says bying whale bone for stain
for ships in grosing three houndred & 40 tuns bort all in boston salum and
all in Noue york under Cover oppenly told them for my ships thay all Lafed
so I had at my one prise I had four Couning men for Rouners thay souned
the horne as I told them to Act the fool I was foull of Cash I had Nine tun of
silver on hand at that time all that time the Creaters more or Less Lafing it
but Could Not Laye the serpent only in part shee has bin Cracey Every
sence it is A wonder I am A Live two children suked hur brest—it is
heretarey two Children maried now Live upon me being disorded thay beat
me offen with Death Cloube & the old gost toue bad to say I be silent under
serkoumstanes I mus Cout & Roum sell the one of the first plases all most
in the world for I am in grat fear of my Life being taken A way such blows I
have had from toue or three gost in my familey is worth twelve hundred
hoxets of geamator best shougers Even A saxton to take the blows I wodent
for fifty milon Dollors words cant Express the bloddey war in my familey
three gosts all Noys Robing of me I must sell with tears in my Eys I Cant
see to Rite Aany more fare well I say good bye
T DEXTER
[21]
How Did Dexter make his money Inw ye says bying whale bone for stain
for ships in grosing three houndred & 40 tuns bort all in boston salum and
all in Noue york under Cover oppenly told them for my ships thay all Lafed
so I had at my one prise I had four Couning men for Rouners thay souned
the horne as I told them to Act the fool I was foull of Cash I had Nine tun of
silver on hand at that time all that time the Creaters more or Less Lafing it
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spread very fast heare is the Rub in fifty Days thay smelt A Rat found whare
it was gone to Nouebry Port speklaters swarmed Like hell houns to be short
with it I made seventey five per sent one tun and halfe of silver and over
one more spect Drole A Nouf I Dreamed of warming pans three Nits that
thay would doue in the west ingas I got not more than fortey two thousand
put them in Nine vessele for difrent ports that tuck good hold———I
cleared sevinty nine per sent———the pans thay mad yous of them for
Coucking very good master for Coukey blessed good in Deade missey got
Nise handed Now bourn my fase the best thing I Ever see in borne days I
found I was very luckkey in spekkelasion I Dreamed that the good book
was Run Down in this Countrey Nine years gone so Low az halfe prise and
Dull at that the bibbel I means I had the Readey Cash by holl sale I bort
twelve per sent under halfe prise thay Cost forty one sents Each bibels
twenty one thousand I put them into twenty one vessels for the westinges
and sent A text that all of them must have one bibel in Every familey or if
not thay would goue to hell and if thay had Dun wiked flie to the bibel and
on thare Neas and kiss the bibel three times and Look up to heaven Annest
for giveness my Capttens all had Compleat orders heare Coms the good
Luck I made one hundred per sent & Littel over then I found I had made
money A Nuf I hant speck A Lated sence old times by goverment secourties
I made or cleared forty seven thousands Dolors that is the old A fare Now I
toald the all the sekrett Now be still Let me A Lone Dont wonder Now more
houe I got my money boaz
T DEXTER
Now to all onnest men to pittey me that I have bin in hell: 35 years in this
world with the gost A woman I maried and have two Children Now Liveing
Abram bishup mared my Dafter sence the troubel is such that words Cant
be [22]
Exprexed Nine years disorded for a tun of silver for three months I could
Not have the gost in my pallas sleep Not have to be had Now to save my
Life I will sell if Not I will Let the house it is as Notted as Any hous in the
it was gone to Nouebry Port speklaters swarmed Like hell houns to be short
with it I made seventey five per sent one tun and halfe of silver and over
one more spect Drole A Nouf I Dreamed of warming pans three Nits that
thay would doue in the west ingas I got not more than fortey two thousand
put them in Nine vessele for difrent ports that tuck good hold———I
cleared sevinty nine per sent———the pans thay mad yous of them for
Coucking very good master for Coukey blessed good in Deade missey got
Nise handed Now bourn my fase the best thing I Ever see in borne days I
found I was very luckkey in spekkelasion I Dreamed that the good book
was Run Down in this Countrey Nine years gone so Low az halfe prise and
Dull at that the bibbel I means I had the Readey Cash by holl sale I bort
twelve per sent under halfe prise thay Cost forty one sents Each bibels
twenty one thousand I put them into twenty one vessels for the westinges
and sent A text that all of them must have one bibel in Every familey or if
not thay would goue to hell and if thay had Dun wiked flie to the bibel and
on thare Neas and kiss the bibel three times and Look up to heaven Annest
for giveness my Capttens all had Compleat orders heare Coms the good
Luck I made one hundred per sent & Littel over then I found I had made
money A Nuf I hant speck A Lated sence old times by goverment secourties
I made or cleared forty seven thousands Dolors that is the old A fare Now I
toald the all the sekrett Now be still Let me A Lone Dont wonder Now more
houe I got my money boaz
T DEXTER
Now to all onnest men to pittey me that I have bin in hell: 35 years in this
world with the gost A woman I maried and have two Children Now Liveing
Abram bishup mared my Dafter sence the troubel is such that words Cant
be [22]
Exprexed Nine years disorded for a tun of silver for three months I could
Not have the gost in my pallas sleep Not have to be had Now to save my
Life I will sell if Not I will Let the house it is as Notted as Any hous in the
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oile shouls and furder in the world or sence Noers Arke & sence the floud
taking in my self finly such A plase No whare in the world all gous with it
hoses chareags all but plate & gouels A Reserve the holey bybel and one
bouck more my old head has wore out three boddeys it would take a
journey of Docters one our to find and Count the scars on my head given by
the goust & others Amen
Joune 12- 1805 Clean trouth
T DEXTER
I say the grate mister Divel that has so maney Nick Names a frind to the
preasts Now is dead all and the pope Likewise and the founders of mesonic
A Cheat foull of war and gratness of hell Dead preasts Dead and Lawyers
Damede Deade A braham b bi Ass Dead and All the frinds of mankind sings
prasses that wee are the grat familey of mankind Now out of hell Deleured
from fire and smoak bourning for Ever Now all in heaven uppon Earth Now
all frinds Now for A Day of Regoising all over the world as one grate
familey all Nasions to be ounited No more wars for fifty years and Longer I
Recommend pease A Congress in france and when wee are Ripe for A
Emper in this Contrey Call for me to take the helm or a Consler in the Afare
of trouth Amen and Amen
TIMOTHY DEXTER
P S—one thing further I happened not to think of that grate Creature
which some fools Call the Goast and others say that he is wanted—But I
thing that it will be of searvice to let the Thanttron Dye
T DEXTER
taking in my self finly such A plase No whare in the world all gous with it
hoses chareags all but plate & gouels A Reserve the holey bybel and one
bouck more my old head has wore out three boddeys it would take a
journey of Docters one our to find and Count the scars on my head given by
the goust & others Amen
Joune 12- 1805 Clean trouth
T DEXTER
I say the grate mister Divel that has so maney Nick Names a frind to the
preasts Now is dead all and the pope Likewise and the founders of mesonic
A Cheat foull of war and gratness of hell Dead preasts Dead and Lawyers
Damede Deade A braham b bi Ass Dead and All the frinds of mankind sings
prasses that wee are the grat familey of mankind Now out of hell Deleured
from fire and smoak bourning for Ever Now all in heaven uppon Earth Now
all frinds Now for A Day of Regoising all over the world as one grate
familey all Nasions to be ounited No more wars for fifty years and Longer I
Recommend pease A Congress in france and when wee are Ripe for A
Emper in this Contrey Call for me to take the helm or a Consler in the Afare
of trouth Amen and Amen
TIMOTHY DEXTER
P S—one thing further I happened not to think of that grate Creature
which some fools Call the Goast and others say that he is wanted—But I
thing that it will be of searvice to let the Thanttron Dye
T DEXTER
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Scarting trouths fortey six years gone old french war to git men and Lads
to List the prests told them thay would Live as Long as if thay staed at
home for Every boulitt had its Commison from the Lord he directed them
one time when old good mister Emmerson had A gurnemon to preach I
heard him say for Addom sin there was Now in hell milons of milons of
[23]
Children Not more than A span Long all this is troue and when there was a
A Drouth most over thay would Call A fast and pray very Annest for the
bottels of heaven to be on Corked so the Rane mit Com Down the minester
did Not say how Larg thay whare I gess they held five hundred hoxetts
Each
1805 may 27
TIMOTHY DEXTER
Trouth I afirme I am so much of A foule the Rougs want to git my Jouels
& Loavs & Littel fishes without my Leave Leave is Lit thay all Caled me A
foull forty years Now I will Call all fouls but onnes men Now to brove me
A foull I Never Could sing Nor play Cards Nor Dance Nor tell A Long
storey Nor play on Any mouskel Nor pray Nor make A pen when I was
young I Could play on A Jous harp it would mak my mouth warter and the
Ladeys sumthing warter gess what I sade Nothing A good Lafe is beter than
Crying A Clam will Cry And warter wen thay are out of there Ellemen so
wee the same if I had Not the gost in my house I would I mean give Lite to
my brothers & sisters and have A pease all over the world and beat the
trouthe into my frinds houe goud it is houe onnest it would be and houe
man kind has bin in posed upon & houe thay have bin blinded with
untrouths gosts and mister Divels there is Now None of that order all Lye
the mesonek if thay wilt make a book of trouth I will give the Creaters but I
to List the prests told them thay would Live as Long as if thay staed at
home for Every boulitt had its Commison from the Lord he directed them
one time when old good mister Emmerson had A gurnemon to preach I
heard him say for Addom sin there was Now in hell milons of milons of
[23]
Children Not more than A span Long all this is troue and when there was a
A Drouth most over thay would Call A fast and pray very Annest for the
bottels of heaven to be on Corked so the Rane mit Com Down the minester
did Not say how Larg thay whare I gess they held five hundred hoxetts
Each
1805 may 27
TIMOTHY DEXTER
Trouth I afirme I am so much of A foule the Rougs want to git my Jouels
& Loavs & Littel fishes without my Leave Leave is Lit thay all Caled me A
foull forty years Now I will Call all fouls but onnes men Now to brove me
A foull I Never Could sing Nor play Cards Nor Dance Nor tell A Long
storey Nor play on Any mouskel Nor pray Nor make A pen when I was
young I Could play on A Jous harp it would mak my mouth warter and the
Ladeys sumthing warter gess what I sade Nothing A good Lafe is beter than
Crying A Clam will Cry And warter wen thay are out of there Ellemen so
wee the same if I had Not the gost in my house I would I mean give Lite to
my brothers & sisters and have A pease all over the world and beat the
trouthe into my frinds houe goud it is houe onnest it would be and houe
man kind has bin in posed upon & houe thay have bin blinded with
untrouths gosts and mister Divels there is Now None of that order all Lye
the mesonek if thay wilt make a book of trouth I will give the Creaters but I
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will take the Chare and put my frind bonne partey on my Rte hand And the
grat ginrel meroue on my Left hand A Nuf to give the sword is in the banks
A Emper only be still I will take the helm in Love I am A quaker No blod
spiled all in the Love of A Emper you will have in fortey years I may Com
back & see houe you all goue on & what you ware when the gost is gone
and mister Divel pease on Earth be fore I will have a war in my Day I will
be your frind the Emper and if I want help I will Call my frind boneypartey
and gorge the third & Dewide the Lose Now take Care peas I say Except of
what is Rewealed to me for it will Com to pass I was born when grat
powers Rouled I was borne in 1747 Janeuarey 22 on this day in the morning
A grat snow storme the sines in the seventh house wives mars Came fored
Joupeter stud by houlding the Candel I was to be one grat man mars got the
beth to be onnest man to Doue good to my felow mortelz I think I am A
[24]
quaker but I have so Littel sense I Cant Deseave I Can swep my hous & git
all A Noue gelt & goue out of hell is bless Law and trouth and Reason on
my side it must be done when I git my worthy widdow it is Dun Not one
word of Anger as Long as I Live to a A good woman I a firme
TIMOTHY DEXTER
fourder I Dont have Aney of the Ladeys of prinsbell spend the Intress I
will spend Day and Nite All I have and Doue all the good to please I can
make as much heaven upon Earth as posbel and then Dye in peas A men
and Amen for A Companon I must have to make out this heaven then I am
happy the goue in the dark in pease when the Candel gous out in the—Lord
god of Nater one more A men good bye
T DEXTER
forder A grate good man Came to see me Not Long sence I told sade man
I had many Innemys he says be Cos you are toue onnest to be beloved you
Dont gine in Comon ways with Rougs bibel making mesonik order to
promes to pay & Never pay only with A Lye and gine heell on Earth Cheat
all you Can gine the mob then you are A brother Now I am glad I did Not
grat ginrel meroue on my Left hand A Nuf to give the sword is in the banks
A Emper only be still I will take the helm in Love I am A quaker No blod
spiled all in the Love of A Emper you will have in fortey years I may Com
back & see houe you all goue on & what you ware when the gost is gone
and mister Divel pease on Earth be fore I will have a war in my Day I will
be your frind the Emper and if I want help I will Call my frind boneypartey
and gorge the third & Dewide the Lose Now take Care peas I say Except of
what is Rewealed to me for it will Com to pass I was born when grat
powers Rouled I was borne in 1747 Janeuarey 22 on this day in the morning
A grat snow storme the sines in the seventh house wives mars Came fored
Joupeter stud by houlding the Candel I was to be one grat man mars got the
beth to be onnest man to Doue good to my felow mortelz I think I am A
[24]
quaker but I have so Littel sense I Cant Deseave I Can swep my hous & git
all A Noue gelt & goue out of hell is bless Law and trouth and Reason on
my side it must be done when I git my worthy widdow it is Dun Not one
word of Anger as Long as I Live to a A good woman I a firme
TIMOTHY DEXTER
fourder I Dont have Aney of the Ladeys of prinsbell spend the Intress I
will spend Day and Nite All I have and Doue all the good to please I can
make as much heaven upon Earth as posbel and then Dye in peas A men
and Amen for A Companon I must have to make out this heaven then I am
happy the goue in the dark in pease when the Candel gous out in the—Lord
god of Nater one more A men good bye
T DEXTER
forder A grate good man Came to see me Not Long sence I told sade man
I had many Innemys he says be Cos you are toue onnest to be beloved you
Dont gine in Comon ways with Rougs bibel making mesonik order to
promes to pay & Never pay only with A Lye and gine heell on Earth Cheat
all you Can gine the mob then you are A brother Now I am glad I did Not
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Nock the Doer Down my good Louck my god and my god blessed be my
good Luch
T DEXTER
sum more sweet meats & trouths I say Now man sence Noers Ark Dare
to Rite of so Littel Laning I begon when abrham was in my hous I then
Rote this world was hell & men was Divels sum better then others sum
white Divels sum black & sum Copper Divels I for got them bloue Divels
this spred far was printed in many papers a bishop Cosed my blood to bile
thirteene years last March as when I begun to Rite I sade the grat Rougs
was the best men o o for shame the onnest man was Lafed at & a b being
foull of Larning it maks him mad to be a Lousefer his Rane is short I hope
to see my father the grat felosfer the presedent before I die the trouth he
must know a men
T DEXTER
I Crys Crys Lik a babey when I Rits my trobel is so grat to have my
Dafter so Crasey the Rick of our Lives such blows with such weapons of a
[25]
sudden & strike such brouses is worth thirty millon of Dolors for a pouer
man to have and others o brous me thay wont my Life to git my money &
so I must seel & be a sitteson of the world it is a wonder I am a Live the
burds will Chip offen before I Can git to sleep the Noys is so grate all hell
No more a b bishups he wants to be Deatey Let sade beast goue once &
twise act so Now toue much Laning make Rougs and fouls in the Eand Dig
a Dich & fall in to it white Rop or a hare Rop taks them in time
trouth
good Luch
T DEXTER
sum more sweet meats & trouths I say Now man sence Noers Ark Dare
to Rite of so Littel Laning I begon when abrham was in my hous I then
Rote this world was hell & men was Divels sum better then others sum
white Divels sum black & sum Copper Divels I for got them bloue Divels
this spred far was printed in many papers a bishop Cosed my blood to bile
thirteene years last March as when I begun to Rite I sade the grat Rougs
was the best men o o for shame the onnest man was Lafed at & a b being
foull of Larning it maks him mad to be a Lousefer his Rane is short I hope
to see my father the grat felosfer the presedent before I die the trouth he
must know a men
T DEXTER
I Crys Crys Lik a babey when I Rits my trobel is so grat to have my
Dafter so Crasey the Rick of our Lives such blows with such weapons of a
[25]
sudden & strike such brouses is worth thirty millon of Dolors for a pouer
man to have and others o brous me thay wont my Life to git my money &
so I must seel & be a sitteson of the world it is a wonder I am a Live the
burds will Chip offen before I Can git to sleep the Noys is so grate all hell
No more a b bishups he wants to be Deatey Let sade beast goue once &
twise act so Now toue much Laning make Rougs and fouls in the Eand Dig
a Dich & fall in to it white Rop or a hare Rop taks them in time
trouth
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This is revealed to me how the world was made with what stuff it was
made with is the question Now I tell the with paper pen and ink and type
the Anemels to be the founders of it with a Lye & Lyes upon Lyes wose
then beasts or Snaks or wouls or bars tigers Divils and ten times wose with
all Lyes untrouths the world allways was and is Look out for trouth a men I
TIMOTHY DEXTER
fourder in six Days and verey good and harde Laber I Cant gitt my
monement Dun in sixty Days and work hard very hard & sweet it was for
want of maney hands I had No hiram Nor Solomon only my selfe
T DEXTER
World makers mankind with marbel and parchment and paper pen & ink
and printers tips and Lyes upon Lyes amen and amen the world was made in
six Days out of Nothing o yess o lye Now all troue Lye yess all the world
over
TIMOTHY DEXTER
[26]
made with is the question Now I tell the with paper pen and ink and type
the Anemels to be the founders of it with a Lye & Lyes upon Lyes wose
then beasts or Snaks or wouls or bars tigers Divils and ten times wose with
all Lyes untrouths the world allways was and is Look out for trouth a men I
TIMOTHY DEXTER
fourder in six Days and verey good and harde Laber I Cant gitt my
monement Dun in sixty Days and work hard very hard & sweet it was for
want of maney hands I had No hiram Nor Solomon only my selfe
T DEXTER
World makers mankind with marbel and parchment and paper pen & ink
and printers tips and Lyes upon Lyes amen and amen the world was made in
six Days out of Nothing o yess o lye Now all troue Lye yess all the world
over
TIMOTHY DEXTER
[26]
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APPENDIX.
IN HONOR OF
TIMOTHY DEXTER, ESQ.
This great philosopher may indeed be styled a phenomenon in nature!
The many literary qualifications he possesses rank him foremost among
literary characters.——That unequalled production from the pen of this
wonderful philosopher, denominated "A Pickle for the Knowing Ones," has
not only received universal applause, and been ranked as of the first
magnitude in the literary world, but has had such rapidity in its sale, that a
copy cannot be procured, though diligently sought after by men of the most
transcendant merit.
Where can we find a man so extensively useful, and so eminently
calculated to diffuse light to a dark and ignorant multitude, as this rare
philosopher? How penetrating his understanding! How deep his ideas!
What a multitude of discoveries which before were hid in embryo, have
made their appearance at the nod of his genius! Surely we may say, Blessed
are the people who are highly favored with the greatest Luminary that ever
gave light to an existing world!!
While aiming at a just portrait of this remarkable Naturalist and
Philosopher, his generosity is no less a subject of admiration, than his
literary and philosophical abilities. The readiness with which his benevolent
soul bestows donations calls forth the grateful acknowledgement of all who
have been liberally assisted from his bountiful hand.
See him the first to assist in building a church for the worship of God!
See him liberally give for the purchase of bells, the ready cash, without
hesitation! See him expending his fortune to preserve in everlasting
[27]
romembrance, characters who have shone with unexampled greatness in
IN HONOR OF
TIMOTHY DEXTER, ESQ.
This great philosopher may indeed be styled a phenomenon in nature!
The many literary qualifications he possesses rank him foremost among
literary characters.——That unequalled production from the pen of this
wonderful philosopher, denominated "A Pickle for the Knowing Ones," has
not only received universal applause, and been ranked as of the first
magnitude in the literary world, but has had such rapidity in its sale, that a
copy cannot be procured, though diligently sought after by men of the most
transcendant merit.
Where can we find a man so extensively useful, and so eminently
calculated to diffuse light to a dark and ignorant multitude, as this rare
philosopher? How penetrating his understanding! How deep his ideas!
What a multitude of discoveries which before were hid in embryo, have
made their appearance at the nod of his genius! Surely we may say, Blessed
are the people who are highly favored with the greatest Luminary that ever
gave light to an existing world!!
While aiming at a just portrait of this remarkable Naturalist and
Philosopher, his generosity is no less a subject of admiration, than his
literary and philosophical abilities. The readiness with which his benevolent
soul bestows donations calls forth the grateful acknowledgement of all who
have been liberally assisted from his bountiful hand.
See him the first to assist in building a church for the worship of God!
See him liberally give for the purchase of bells, the ready cash, without
hesitation! See him expending his fortune to preserve in everlasting
[27]
romembrance, characters who have shone with unexampled greatness in
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Europe and America! Here the subject fails. Vain man may as well attempt
to stop the course of nature, as to do ample justice to this wonderful man!
Behold all nature stands aghast
To hear thy fame from east to west!
How great how grand of thee we hear,
Thou man of sense—thou eastern star!
All men inquire—but few can tell
How thou in science doth excel!
Great philosophic genius, we,
The meanest reptiles, bow the knee.
At thy majestic shrine we shrink!
What can we do, or say, or think!
When contemplating on thy worth.
Which hath astonish'd all the earth.
Great DEXTER, did the world do right,
Thy name would shine with brilliant light!
Each would declare thy wond'rous fame,
And shout at DEXTER'S mighty name!
Salem, June 14, 1805
My Lord Dexter,
By the politeness of Mr. Emerson I received the very valuable contents of
your package. A new edition of that unprecedented performance, entitled "A
Pickle for the Knowing Ones," &c. is very urgently called for by the friends
of literature in this country and in England—and I presume with the
additions and improvements intended to accompany the second edition,
to stop the course of nature, as to do ample justice to this wonderful man!
Behold all nature stands aghast
To hear thy fame from east to west!
How great how grand of thee we hear,
Thou man of sense—thou eastern star!
All men inquire—but few can tell
How thou in science doth excel!
Great philosophic genius, we,
The meanest reptiles, bow the knee.
At thy majestic shrine we shrink!
What can we do, or say, or think!
When contemplating on thy worth.
Which hath astonish'd all the earth.
Great DEXTER, did the world do right,
Thy name would shine with brilliant light!
Each would declare thy wond'rous fame,
And shout at DEXTER'S mighty name!
Salem, June 14, 1805
My Lord Dexter,
By the politeness of Mr. Emerson I received the very valuable contents of
your package. A new edition of that unprecedented performance, entitled "A
Pickle for the Knowing Ones," &c. is very urgently called for by the friends
of literature in this country and in England—and I presume with the
additions and improvements intended to accompany the second edition,
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provided it should be well printed, would entitle the author to a seat with
the Disciples of Sir Joseph Banks, if not to a place in Bonaparte's Legion of
Honor—for my Lord DEXTER is an honorable man. But, sir, the work
cannot be executed for the sum named—nor in the time specified.—I will
print an edition of 500 copies with the additions, for fifty dollars, and
cannot possibly do them for less.
Wishing your Lordship health in perpetuity—a continuance of your
admirable reasoning faculties—good spirits, and an abundance of wealth—
and finally a safe passage over any river not with Sticks, but a pleasure boat,
I remain yours with the utmost profundity.
W. CARLTON.
The Right Honorable Lord Dexter,
Kt. Newburyport.
[28]
The follering peases are not my Riting but very drole
TIMOTHY DEXTER
Mr. Melcher,
Your publishing the following extract from a letter said to be from a trader among the
Indians to a friend, may amuse some of your customers for the Gazette.
A few days ago one of the Indians paid me a visit. After some
conversation, he said that a minister from the United States had been with
his tribe to teach them the Christian religion. He says that there is but one
only living and true God, who is a good, wise, and powerful spirit (this
Indian say too) and that there are three persons in the god head, of one
the Disciples of Sir Joseph Banks, if not to a place in Bonaparte's Legion of
Honor—for my Lord DEXTER is an honorable man. But, sir, the work
cannot be executed for the sum named—nor in the time specified.—I will
print an edition of 500 copies with the additions, for fifty dollars, and
cannot possibly do them for less.
Wishing your Lordship health in perpetuity—a continuance of your
admirable reasoning faculties—good spirits, and an abundance of wealth—
and finally a safe passage over any river not with Sticks, but a pleasure boat,
I remain yours with the utmost profundity.
W. CARLTON.
The Right Honorable Lord Dexter,
Kt. Newburyport.
[28]
The follering peases are not my Riting but very drole
TIMOTHY DEXTER
Mr. Melcher,
Your publishing the following extract from a letter said to be from a trader among the
Indians to a friend, may amuse some of your customers for the Gazette.
A few days ago one of the Indians paid me a visit. After some
conversation, he said that a minister from the United States had been with
his tribe to teach them the Christian religion. He says that there is but one
only living and true God, who is a good, wise, and powerful spirit (this
Indian say too) and that there are three persons in the god head, of one
Page 36
substance and power, God the father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost,
that the Father is of none, neither begotten, or proceeding, the Son is
eternally begotten of the Father, the Holy Ghost eternally proceeding from
the Father and the Son, and that the Holy Ghost visited a virgin, and
conveyed the Son into her; where he continued nine moons and then was
born like other children, was born God and man, that when he was about
thirty years old began to preach, but the great men no like his preaching,
sent their warriors, who took and killed him.
Indians ask what all this talk mean, he say that the first man and woman
broke God's law in eating what God had forbidden, that therefore they and
all the children that should proceed from them must die, and be punished
after death forever; that the Son came and died to save some of mankind
from being punished after death. Oh! 'trange that man could kill God the
Son, and that his death be of service to mankind—great many people die
before the Son of God, and did not know any thing about him—it was then
asked whether his dying would do poor Indians any good; he say yes, if
they believe; then me say that pappoose no believe them do no good; he say
you must leave that with God, and believe for yourself—one say it is hard
to believe such 'tories; if Indian tell such 'trange things, the white people no
believe um.
[29]
A curious Sermon, by the Rev. Mr. Hyberdin, which he made at the request of certain
thieves that robbed him on a hill near Hartlgrow, in Hampshire, (England) in their
presence and at that instant.
I greatly marvel that any man will disgrace thieving, and think that the
doers thereof are worthy of death, considering it as a thing that cometh near
unto virtue, being used in all countries, and allowed by God himself; the
thing which I cannot compendiously show unto you at so short a warning,
and on so sharp an occasion. I must desire you, gentle audience of thieves,
to take in good part what at this time cometh into my mind, not doubting
but that you, through your good knowledge, are able to add much more unto
it, than this which I shall now offer unto you.
First, Fortitude and stoutness of courage, and also boldness of mind, is
commended of some men to be a virtue; which being granted, who is there
then that will not judge thieves to be virtuous? For they are of all men the
that the Father is of none, neither begotten, or proceeding, the Son is
eternally begotten of the Father, the Holy Ghost eternally proceeding from
the Father and the Son, and that the Holy Ghost visited a virgin, and
conveyed the Son into her; where he continued nine moons and then was
born like other children, was born God and man, that when he was about
thirty years old began to preach, but the great men no like his preaching,
sent their warriors, who took and killed him.
Indians ask what all this talk mean, he say that the first man and woman
broke God's law in eating what God had forbidden, that therefore they and
all the children that should proceed from them must die, and be punished
after death forever; that the Son came and died to save some of mankind
from being punished after death. Oh! 'trange that man could kill God the
Son, and that his death be of service to mankind—great many people die
before the Son of God, and did not know any thing about him—it was then
asked whether his dying would do poor Indians any good; he say yes, if
they believe; then me say that pappoose no believe them do no good; he say
you must leave that with God, and believe for yourself—one say it is hard
to believe such 'tories; if Indian tell such 'trange things, the white people no
believe um.
[29]
A curious Sermon, by the Rev. Mr. Hyberdin, which he made at the request of certain
thieves that robbed him on a hill near Hartlgrow, in Hampshire, (England) in their
presence and at that instant.
I greatly marvel that any man will disgrace thieving, and think that the
doers thereof are worthy of death, considering it as a thing that cometh near
unto virtue, being used in all countries, and allowed by God himself; the
thing which I cannot compendiously show unto you at so short a warning,
and on so sharp an occasion. I must desire you, gentle audience of thieves,
to take in good part what at this time cometh into my mind, not doubting
but that you, through your good knowledge, are able to add much more unto
it, than this which I shall now offer unto you.
First, Fortitude and stoutness of courage, and also boldness of mind, is
commended of some men to be a virtue; which being granted, who is there
then that will not judge thieves to be virtuous? For they are of all men the
Page 37
most stout and hardy, and the most void of fear; for thieving is a thing usual
among all men; for not only you that are here present, but also many others
in divers places, both men, women and children, rich and poor, are daily of
the faculty, as the hangman at Newgate can testify; and that it is allowed of
by God himself is evident from Scripture; For if you examine the whole
course of the Bible you will find that thieves have been beloved of God; for
Jacob, when he came out of Mesopotamia, did steal his uncle Laban's kids.
The same Jacob did also steal his brother Esau's blessing; and yet God said,
I have chosen Jacob and refused Esau. The children of Israel, when they
came out of Egypt, did steal the Egyptian's jewels of silver and jewels of
gold, as God commanded them to do.
David, in the days of Abiathar, the high priest, came into the temple and
stole the hallowed bread; and yet God said, "David is a man after my own
heart." Christ himself, when he was here on earth, did take an ass and colt
that was none of his; and yet God said, "This is my beloved son, in whom I
am well pleased." Thus you see that God delighted in thieves.
But most of all I marvel that men can despise thieves, whereas in many
points you be like Christ himself; for Christ had no dwelling place no more
than you—Christ at length was caught, and so will you—he went to hell
and so will you. In this you differ from him, for he rose and went into
[30]
heaven—so you will never do without God's great mercy, which God grant
you. To whom with the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, be all honor and glory,
for ever and ever. Amen.
From the Providence Phœnix of December, 1804.
MARQUIS OF NEWBURYPORT!!
[On Monday last arrived in this town the most noble and illustrious Lord TIMOTHY
DEXTER, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, who has since his arrival requested the
publication of the following stanzas in this day's paper, as a humble tribute to the
among all men; for not only you that are here present, but also many others
in divers places, both men, women and children, rich and poor, are daily of
the faculty, as the hangman at Newgate can testify; and that it is allowed of
by God himself is evident from Scripture; For if you examine the whole
course of the Bible you will find that thieves have been beloved of God; for
Jacob, when he came out of Mesopotamia, did steal his uncle Laban's kids.
The same Jacob did also steal his brother Esau's blessing; and yet God said,
I have chosen Jacob and refused Esau. The children of Israel, when they
came out of Egypt, did steal the Egyptian's jewels of silver and jewels of
gold, as God commanded them to do.
David, in the days of Abiathar, the high priest, came into the temple and
stole the hallowed bread; and yet God said, "David is a man after my own
heart." Christ himself, when he was here on earth, did take an ass and colt
that was none of his; and yet God said, "This is my beloved son, in whom I
am well pleased." Thus you see that God delighted in thieves.
But most of all I marvel that men can despise thieves, whereas in many
points you be like Christ himself; for Christ had no dwelling place no more
than you—Christ at length was caught, and so will you—he went to hell
and so will you. In this you differ from him, for he rose and went into
[30]
heaven—so you will never do without God's great mercy, which God grant
you. To whom with the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, be all honor and glory,
for ever and ever. Amen.
From the Providence Phœnix of December, 1804.
MARQUIS OF NEWBURYPORT!!
[On Monday last arrived in this town the most noble and illustrious Lord TIMOTHY
DEXTER, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, who has since his arrival requested the
publication of the following stanzas in this day's paper, as a humble tribute to the
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incomprehensible majesty of his name! While they serve as a brilliant specimen of the
gifted talents and admirable sublimity of the Laureat, from whose pen they flowed, the
virtuoso in genealogies, and the worshippers of noble rank and boundless fortune may
derive a rich and delicious satisfaction from the subject to which they are devoted!
ADVERTISEMENT EXTRA.
OF THE CELEBRATED
LORD DEXTER.
LORD DEXTER is a man of fame,
Most celebrated is his name;
More precious far than gold that's pure,
Lord Dexter live for evermore.
His noble house it shines more bright
Than Lebanon's most pleasant height,
Never was one who step'd therein
Who wanted to come out again.
His house is fill'd with sweet perfumes,
Rich furniture doth fill his rooms;
Inside and out it is adorn'd,
And on the top an eagle's form'd.
His house is white and trimm'd with green,
For many miles it may be seen;
It shines as bright as any star,
The fame of it has spread afar.
Lord Dexter, thou, whose name alone
Shines brighter than king George's throne;
Thy name shall stand in books of fame,
And Princes shall his name proclaim.
Lord Dexter hath a coach beside,
gifted talents and admirable sublimity of the Laureat, from whose pen they flowed, the
virtuoso in genealogies, and the worshippers of noble rank and boundless fortune may
derive a rich and delicious satisfaction from the subject to which they are devoted!
ADVERTISEMENT EXTRA.
OF THE CELEBRATED
LORD DEXTER.
LORD DEXTER is a man of fame,
Most celebrated is his name;
More precious far than gold that's pure,
Lord Dexter live for evermore.
His noble house it shines more bright
Than Lebanon's most pleasant height,
Never was one who step'd therein
Who wanted to come out again.
His house is fill'd with sweet perfumes,
Rich furniture doth fill his rooms;
Inside and out it is adorn'd,
And on the top an eagle's form'd.
His house is white and trimm'd with green,
For many miles it may be seen;
It shines as bright as any star,
The fame of it has spread afar.
Lord Dexter, thou, whose name alone
Shines brighter than king George's throne;
Thy name shall stand in books of fame,
And Princes shall his name proclaim.
Lord Dexter hath a coach beside,
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In pomp and splendor he doth ride;
The horses champ the silver bitt,
And throw the foam around their feet.
The images around him stand,
For they were made by his command;
Looking to see Lord Dexter come,
With fixed eyes they see him home.
Four lions stand to guard the door,
With their mouths open to devour
All enemies who do disturb
Lord Dexter or his shady grove.
Lord Dexter, like king Solomon,
Hath gold and silver by the ton,
And bells to churches he hath given,
To worship the great king of heaven.
His mighty deeds they are so great,
He's honor'd both by church and state,
And when he comes all must give way,
To let Lord Dexter bear the sway.
When Dexter dies all things shall droop,
Lord East, Lord West, Lord North shall stoop,
And then Lord South with pomp shall come,
And bear his body to the tomb.
His tomb most charming to behold,
A thousand sweets it doth unfold;
When Dexter dies shall willows weep,
And mourning friends shall fill the street.
May Washington immortal stand,
May Jefferson by God's command
Support the right of all mankind,
John Adams not a whit behind.
The horses champ the silver bitt,
And throw the foam around their feet.
The images around him stand,
For they were made by his command;
Looking to see Lord Dexter come,
With fixed eyes they see him home.
Four lions stand to guard the door,
With their mouths open to devour
All enemies who do disturb
Lord Dexter or his shady grove.
Lord Dexter, like king Solomon,
Hath gold and silver by the ton,
And bells to churches he hath given,
To worship the great king of heaven.
His mighty deeds they are so great,
He's honor'd both by church and state,
And when he comes all must give way,
To let Lord Dexter bear the sway.
When Dexter dies all things shall droop,
Lord East, Lord West, Lord North shall stoop,
And then Lord South with pomp shall come,
And bear his body to the tomb.
His tomb most charming to behold,
A thousand sweets it doth unfold;
When Dexter dies shall willows weep,
And mourning friends shall fill the street.
May Washington immortal stand,
May Jefferson by God's command
Support the right of all mankind,
John Adams not a whit behind.
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America with all your host,
Lord Dexter in a bumper toast;
May he enjoy his life in peace,
And when he's dead his name not cease.
In heaven may he always reign,
For there's no sorrow, sin, nor pain:
Unto the world I leave the rest,
For to pronounce Lord Dexter blest.
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May he enjoy his life in peace,
And when he's dead his name not cease.
In heaven may he always reign,
For there's no sorrow, sin, nor pain:
Unto the world I leave the rest,
For to pronounce Lord Dexter blest.
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Transcriber's Note: The block of punctuation (on a page by itself) is
inexplicably left unexplained in this edition. Dexter wrote before it in the
second edition:
"fouder mister printer the Nowing ones complane of my book the fust
edition had no stops I put in A Nuf here and thay may peper and solt it as
they plese"
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Transcriber's Note: The block of punctuation (on a page by itself) is
inexplicably left unexplained in this edition. Dexter wrote before it in the
second edition:
"fouder mister printer the Nowing ones complane of my book the fust
edition had no stops I put in A Nuf here and thay may peper and solt it as
they plese"
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