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              Papers from the Historical Seminary
                      of Brown University

  Edited by J. FRANKLIN JAMESON, Ph. D., Professor of History


                              II

               THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE COLONIAL
                          POST-OFFICE


                              by
                        MARY E. WOOLLEY


            Reprinted from the Publications of the
               Rhode Island Historical Society


                       PROVIDENCE, R. I.
                             1894




EARLY HISTORY OF THE COLONIAL POST OFFICE.


A letter written in 1652, by Samuel Symonds of Ipswich, to John
Winthrop, Jr., at Pequot, says: "I cannot say but its besides my
intentions that I write not more frequently unto you; I can onely plead
this for my excuse (soe farr as it will goe)... and the uncertainty
when and how to convey letters."[1]

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