Now, are all the traitors present?

Let's get started, shall we?

From rags to riches.

I'm so sick of this.

Working like a dog and being treated worse.

Yorkshire to New York.

Poor climbers, you and me.

A life dedicated to revenge.

Let's make this an occasion to remember.

A woman of substance on Channel 4.

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I'm Mary Catherine, and I'm celebrating America 250 by reading primary documents written for or by the founders for as many of the days of the year as I can.

Thanks for joining me for this mini episode of Getting Hammered.

Today in 1776 we have a letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams. She is on the home front, still back in Braintree, trying to figure out rumors and giving news of home to John

and wondering when the heck he's coming back. April 7th, 1776. I received two letters from you this week, one of the 13th and the other of the 19th of March. I know not where one of my letters is gone, unless you have since received it. I certainly wrote you in February, and the first letter I wrote, I mentioned that I had not wrote before. I have written four letters before this. Believe I have received all yours except one you mentioned

writing from Framingham, which I never heard of before. Have received all the papers you sent,

the oration and the magazines. In the small papers, I sometimes find pieces begun and continued,

for instance, Johnstone's speech, but I'm so unlucky as not to get the papers in order and

miss of seeing the whole.

The removal of the army seems to have stopped the current of news.

I want to know to what part of America they are now wondering.

Tis reported and credited that Manley has taken a schooner belonging to the richly laden

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