Adin ballou autobiography of miss

The labors of a duly settled minister of the Christian religion, though many and various, are much the same, generally speaking, from year to year, and to mention them in chronological order and detail would involve wearisome and needless repetition.

Only those, therefore, of special interest and importance in themselves considered, or in their relation to the personality of the writer or to the thought and life of the world at large, will be chronicled at length or more than hinted at in these pages, although months and even years may be passed over without reference to anything transpiring in them.

In a narrative like this one here given, the omitted particulars are so well known as to be easily supplied, if necessary, by the reader.

On August 3, 1825, my friend, Lebbeus Gaskill of South Mendon, colonel of the Second Regiment, First Brigade, Sixth Division M