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ADDENDA.

Christopher Sower Third.—The following article,
handed to the author from a gentleman in Philadelphia,
reflects much honor on the character of Christopher Sower,
the third.

Capt. Coleman, who took Sower prisoner in his excursion
to Germantown, was himself, sometime after Sower's release,
taken prisoner by the British, and confined on board
a prison-ship in New York, with others from Germantown
who were acquainted with Sower. Some time after their
confinement, Sower, with some of his British friends, went
on board of the prison-ship, but did not know of the capture
and confinement of his Germantown acquaintance. Sower
soon recognized Coleman and the others, who rather
shunned than courted an interview with him. However,
Sower went to them, familiarly accosted them, and expressed
his surprise at finding them in their present situation.
He told them, particularly Coleman, that they had
nothing to fear from his resentment, but that, on the contrary,
he was disposed to befriend them as much as lay in
his power; and for that purpose inquired into their present
circumstances. Soon after Sower left the prison-ship he
supplied Coleman with linen and other necessaries, and in
the course of a few days effected his liberation, and that of
the two others, his companions, without an exchange.

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