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c o p y Whereas God all mite has in his Infinite wisdom cased me to liv among the sons of min and as I have wint thru many things in my days that may be instructing both to my childorn and others I cannot feel esy withoute giving a short acount of my pilgommaige in this Life and if it shoold apeersimpel to any in Rising generatians my harts desir is that they may exsept these shets as the ritings of one that has Never had much larning and has a consarn to leave sumthing for to incoraig mankind to do what is rite befor God and man and when thou com to rede this simpil but onest accounpet of my Life thou may esaly find that I have had many ups and downs acarding to the natril forting of this life and that hitherto have allwais found a blesing evin in my outward imployments in being faithful to the light of God in my one hart which has separated thousans in ages past and I believe will all ways be a seport to them that strikly atend to the same as Christ told his desipels that it was exspedent for him to go that the comfort that was the spirit of truth mite com that was to leade them into all truth then I pray Thou Redor to atend to the Spirit of Truth in thy one harte as given by God so thou may goo thru this world in pees of conchants and at the end of the day Lay down thy hed in pes and that thy sool may Reserve the ansor of well don thou good and faithful Sevent Entor into the Joy of thy Lord and soo Remain in felesety eternaly—and donte let the missteps that I have taken be any pull bac to The byt Larn that for evry idil word we must give an account. I was born in the provanc of Conatuc North Amarac in the town of Lime and my fathers name was Timothy Rogers. My berth was on the 22 day of the fifth month in the year of our Lord 1756. As my fortune was to be put out I livd among other pepil till I was about six years old and as thay told me I was yoused very hard then one of my mothers brothers John Huntby by name movd about 150 mils to the Nine pandnes in the government of New York and as he came down where I was put out to one John Tubs heiring that I was abused came and took me away and took me hum to the Nine pandnes where he had begun a new farm but being poor and having a grate famala put me out a spell to a baptis minastor wheir I lived a litil more then one yeair then took me horn a spell then when I was about ten years old he put me out to one James Griffen in said plase where I was well yousd till I was about fifteen or sixteen then being pruswaided to go from him I went away and thought to larne a tried but being disapinted I returned to said Griffen agane. The consomshun came in the famaly of my unkil and he and two of his daughtars died with it aboute the time that I was forteen years old. I haird that my mother was ded and I felt consarned to git some larning. My mastor sente me to scool to a Mistris and in about three weks I larnt so as to spell considerabil and begin to rede aftarword. I went to a nite scool aletil to larn to rite and sifar by that and what I got od spels I larnt to rede rite and sipher aletil though I have afoon found my mind loud in thanks to the Lord that he created a desior in me to strive for larning. I never got much yet I saw in my day many that had ten tims the chanse to larne that I had and did not git haff so much as I did though I hope all childorn will try to larn. I desir that all parens or gardeens will try to give ther childorn larning. I remember when I was young I ofan found the visation of God on my soul and I praid if it mite be his will that I mite be one of his servents if it was only the leste of those that should be thought fit to enter into the kingdom of his son Jesus Christ. My master was not a religus man though cold a very onest man and of a moril life and conversation. As I grew to riper age youthful lust and the pleshers of this life begin to draw me away and about this time wars between England and Amaraca the United Stats broke oute and all though at first I found a spirit of wair on my mind yet as the Lord brooke in on my sool at tims I found my minde boughte under a sens of the graite destruction of war on the airth and yet I could not so why a man mite not stand in his one defens and I hed found that the servents of God under the old covenant did fight when God did command