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From the Hon. Erastus Corning.Albany, N. Y., December 3, 1842.To whom it may concern:I have known and have had intercourse with Mr. Samuel Leech, for the last twenty years, and have always found him honorable in his dealings, and consider him entitled to the confidence of the public as a man of strict integrity.ERASTUS CORNING.The undersigned, being acquainted with Mr. Samuel Leech, the author of the following work, do cheerfully vouch for his moral and Christian character; and assure the public, that the interesting volume, which he here presents to the world, may be relied upon as an honest statement of facts, with which the writer was personally conversant; and as having no fellowship whatever with those fictitious tales of the sea, which, under the garb and professions of truth, have been proffered to the reading community.CHARLES ADAMS,Principal Wes. Academy.JOHN BOWERS,Pastor Cong. Church, Wilbraham, Mass.Wilbraham, May 4, 1843.DAVID PATTEN,Pastor, Providence, R. I.REUBEN RANSOM,Presiding Elder, Springfield Dis. N. E. C.HENRY CHASE,Preacher to Seamen, N. Y.
From the Hon. Erastus Corning.
Albany, N. Y., December 3, 1842.
To whom it may concern:
I have known and have had intercourse with Mr. Samuel Leech, for the last twenty years, and have always found him honorable in his dealings, and consider him entitled to the confidence of the public as a man of strict integrity.
ERASTUS CORNING.
The undersigned, being acquainted with Mr. Samuel Leech, the author of the following work, do cheerfully vouch for his moral and Christian character; and assure the public, that the interesting volume, which he here presents to the world, may be relied upon as an honest statement of facts, with which the writer was personally conversant; and as having no fellowship whatever with those fictitious tales of the sea, which, under the garb and professions of truth, have been proffered to the reading community.
CHARLES ADAMS,Principal Wes. Academy.
JOHN BOWERS,Pastor Cong. Church, Wilbraham, Mass.
Wilbraham, May 4, 1843.
DAVID PATTEN,Pastor, Providence, R. I.
REUBEN RANSOM,Presiding Elder, Springfield Dis. N. E. C.
HENRY CHASE,Preacher to Seamen, N. Y.