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rsRelief Harris - Alpheus Spear’s Son
Mrs Harris is an old woman, residing at Stoughton,
widow of a Revolutionary Soldier named Oliver Harris, who enjoyed a
Pension for a year and a half before he died, but she thinks he was
wronged, and was entitled to it for a longer time than he received it—
General Dearborn presented a Petition for her at the last Session of
Congress and it was referred to a Committee, I suppose the Widows
Committee, but they did not report. She wished me to see to its being
revived, which I promised to do. She left with me two Papers, and told
me a long Story with which it will be impossible for me to charge my
Memory— But she promised that either Genl. Dearborn,
or Squire Tolman should write me a statement of the facts in the case.
Alpheus Spear sent his Sons with his last Quarter’s Rent— I planted
several short rows of Apple-seeds Pear Cores, Nuts and Cherries in the
Nursery and found that the Apple of the central tree, just now ripe is
an excellent fruit— I was occupied great part of the day in copying
Stanzd. Edition of Dermot MacMorrogh;
and wrote a short Letter to Saml. N. Sweet—at Adams
Jefferson County New-York— The autumnal rains have commenced and there
is a prospect that the Springs will be replenished— I wasted part of the
Evening in meditation upon the signs of the Zodiac in the fourth Book of
the Astronomics of Manilius.