Letter in Elias Boudinot, Life of the Rev. William Tennent, Late Pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Freehold, N. J., improved ed. (Trenton: E. B. Adams, 1833), p. 64

It is now above fifty years since my soul resigned itself to God in Jesus Christ. I had then neither son nor daughter; I was completely satisfied with him, and, blessed be his name, I am so now. Have I then reason to cry…