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by May Chapman

A Miner. A man, the product of whose toil warmed many hearths and cooked many meals. A man in whom the Love of God was implanted with heated zeal. In the midst of his numerous aspirations to Heaven the material (coal) passed through his hard-worked hands. Men who were deeply religious, Dissenters from the Church of England.

Living in a society with very little material possessions, looking after each other, as far as their circumstances allowed. Never looking for the manners of the miner cottager, than might be expected from a courtier, and knowledge from the uneducated person, as from a scholar. He was the origin of a kind. He did not have an estate, but in his small, fertile garden would be fruit and vegetables, not flowers, the harvest could not be large, but God's air was there, this would be looked on as God's bounty.
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