Mr. Meeson's Will.

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"My word, Miss, but you have a beautiful pair of shoulders! I never had such a bit of material to work on afore. Hang me if it ain't almost a pity to mark 'em!"

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[Transcriber's Notes:]

Throughout this work many end-of-line hyphens, either omitted in printing or no longer visible, were assumed to be present and the corresponding word-halves rejoined, without further note.

Many punctuation marks that were mistyped in printing or unreadable have been changed, without further note.

Aide-de-camp and Aid-de-camp both used by the author, as are Amherstburgh and Amherstburg, along with Girty and Girtie.

It's and its used interchangeably by author; this usage retained.

Several compound and hyphenated words appear in varying form, for example "artillery men" and "artillerymen"; "bear skin" and "bear-skin"; "mid-day" and "midday"; etc. Usage retained.

Spelling, including possible typographical errors, has been retained as it appears in the original publication except as follows: