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The old man's history is briefly this. The summer
before last Dr Brown of Caermarthen an English Physician
spending some time at Crichoff mentioned this Benson as a
man whom he might probably find an use for means to make use of useful in
some shape or other & whom [+] [+] as he was in absolute want of bread, besides being over head and ears in debt. By my Brothers consent, the Dr wrote to him accordingly it would be charity to take.
He was My Brother accordingly wrote to me to furnish
him w Benson was understanding that he was to have
a living at least was very glad to come. He came
to me with scarce a coat to his back. I supplied him
with £18 which according to my Brothers desire & the Dr's calculateaccording to Dr Brownes calculation would
be necessary for him, and I think nearly as much
again which according to Benson's calculation was
also necessary. His own account to me was that he
had was an Irishman by birth and had once had some concern
I don't know what, in the linnen manufactory:
that about 14 or 15 years ago he had had with a
Major General Philips such a quarrel as made his own
country no longer tenable to him: that he mustered up
£500 with which he came over to Caermarthern
in Wales.
There he had been lingering upon his £500 without
any employment whatsoever till every farthing of his till he had tired out every body's hospitality
money was spent and every body's hospitality as
well as generosity tired out into the bargain: and in
this condition my Dr Brown's letter found him.
When you I have told you that he has been all along
compleat Master of my brother's house, having all sorts
of keys in his possession that his great evil and even
great complaint has been the not having enough to do
for the copying now & then a letter and keeping such
indifferent accounts as he is able to keep has filled up
but a small proportion of his time, that he had never received
an angry unkind word or even look either from
my Brother or from me nor made any sort of complaint
of either of us to either of us, you will know
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