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at present, and through the Blessing of Superintending Good-ness, have been mostly preserved in a good Degree so, since we left home, tho’ not without some Exceptions: We feel ourselves now a little revived in our spirits, by the arrival of our friend Jacob Taylor; of whom we had heard nothing since we left home, ‘till he came to us yesterday, at Stockbridge: It appears he has had a safe, tho’ tedious passage; has safely landed, at fort Schuyler about 22 Miles from this place, all the Goods committed to his Care: and notwithstanding we have been between two and