Extract from the Gazette, 1742
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette, December 21, 1742.

Friend Benjamin Franklin, I desire thee to stop the Advertisement in thy last Week’s Paper, concerning my Wife; and Print to the Contrary, that my Friends may give her Credit on my Account as usual. I acknowledge I had no Reason to do what I have done: For what I did was entirely thro’ others Perswasions, and my own Passion.

Richard Leadame

Dec. 21. 1742. [December 21]
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