I wonder to have Rec.
d
non Line from you
for ſo long Time; and Eſpecially
ſince we had ſo early Intell=
=igence of the ſafe Arrival of
M.r Wyllys, to whoſe Care
I Committed a Number of Letters to Friends in ſeveral
Parts of
England, and Cover’d and Directed them unſeald
to your Care.
I Expect theſe
Miſsionaries, and School-Maſters
will ſet out on their Tour as ſoon as I get Home —
You may.
D. V. Expect
M.r Occom with you, Accom=
panie’d by
M.r Whitaker or
M.r Charles Jeffery Smith, or
ſome other Miniſters appointed by
this Board, between this
and Winter, or as ſoon as we can make them ready, in
Order to make this Deſign and the Importance of it
known to the People of God who have ability to
promote
and help forward the ſame.
I want much to hear what Proſpect
Gen.l Lyman has in his Affair, and wheather there be any Hope at all
of Succeſs in any Suit. my Hope is only in God. I
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Time to add, Save that I am with much Esſteem
P.S. Our dear
M.r Smith’s
going to
England at this Juncture
appears to me with a moſt favourable
^is affords a moſt agreeable Proſpect
^
Aſpect
^it looks^ as though
^God^ Was preparing
the
Way for much Good
towards that great
^to Come to the poor Creatures^
deſign — and though his Intigrity, and
Steadfaſtneſs in the Cause of Truth will not
permitt that preferment among his people which
his merit requires yet I truſt It will not
leſsen the Eſteem or Influence of his Superior
among Abilities among Such as have a
good
^right^
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