A Pickle for the Knowing Ones
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.
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
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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
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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 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 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
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 Congress
to be always in france all Despouts is to be thare seteled and this 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
Devel Cary the sword and mwney with you tak John mekel Jentel man good Not
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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