This is the twelfth Day ſince I began to keep this School, and I have put eight of my Scholars into
third Page ^of the ſpelling book^; ſome
almoſt got down to the Bottom of the ^ſame^ third;— I never ſaw Children exceed these in learning. The Number of ^my^ Scholars are twenty ſix when they are all ^preſent^
togather: but ^it is difficult^ I cant keep them
togather: they are always ^often^ roving about from Place to Place
to get
ſome thing to live upon. Proviſion is very ſcarce with them.—
I am alſo teaching a ſinging School: they take great
Pleaſure in learning to ſing: We can already carry three Parts of ſeveral Tunes.
My Friends are always looking for the Miniſters there is ſcarce a Day paſssover but that ſome Body will aſk me when ^will^ the Miniſters
^will^ come: all ^that^ what I
can tell them, is, I expect they will come middle of this Month. I have been
treated very kindly. ſince
^I^ came to this Place, I beleive I ſhould want for nothing if they ^had^ wherewith to beſtow it.
I find it very hard to live here without the other
Rib, for I am oblig'd to eat with Dogs, I ſay, with Dogs be‐
cauſe they are continually liking Water out off their Pales
and Kettles: Yea, I have often ſeen Dogs eating their
Victuals when they ſet
thein
^Diſhes^ down, they'll only make
a little Noiſe to ſhow their Diſpleaſure to Dogs and take
up the Diſh. finiſh
of
f what was left. My Cooks are
naſty as Hogs: their Cloaths are black and greaſy as my
Shoes. their Hands are dirty as my Feet, but they cleanſe
^them^ by kneading Bread: their Hands will be very clean after
they have kneaded three or four Loves of Bread. I am ob‐
lig'd to eat whatſoever they give me for
^fear^ they will be diſ‐
pleaſd with me: after this Month I ſhall try to clean
ſome of them. for I muſt move along by Degrees,
if they once
^get^ out with
me it is all over with me.
I I ſhall have a Houſe built me next Week, then I ſhall have my Victuals cleaner.
I think 30£
^lawful money ^per
Annum^ as the leaſt that will be neciſsary^ will not be too much for my Support
for the
^firſt Year or two^ three firſt Years: It is
very
coſtly to
^living^ live here,
^[left]being^
be‐
cauſe it is ſo far from an Engliſh Settlement; and I deter
mine to live better than a Hog, for my
Food
is now is not
fit for any Man, that has been uſed to have his Victuals
dreſt clean: I am almost ſick now for want of ſome
Refreſhment that is nouriſhing. I wiſh I had ſome
of
Mrs. Wheelock's Bread & Milk, little ſweet Cake and good
boild Meat, I could eat those things gready as a Hog that
has been kept in a Pen
two Days without it's Swill.—
^I now & then drink ſome^ My daily Meat is Tea ^which I carried with me^
and ^eat^ dry Bread ^which I bought^, little Fiſh which I cetch out of a ſmall River and their Pottage which is ^made of^ pounded
Corn.
If you
^could obtain the Favour to^ can get me
Writing that will draw
Proviſion
^now & then^ from
^out of the^
Kings Stores I wiſh you would do it:
for I
^am^ obliged to go forty
Miles to buy my Proviſion.—
I heard from
M.r Kirtland
^a^ few Days ago.
he is well and teaching Children to read. "Pleaſe to
give my kind Reſpects to
Madam
&
Maſter and Love
to all the reſt of your Family, eſſpecially to your Chil‐
dren." I aſk the Continuance of your Prayers, that
God would give me Grace and fill my
^Heart^ with the Love of
God and Compaſſion to periſhing Souls and that God
^would^ make me an Inſtrument of wining many
^Souls^ to Chriſt
before I leave this World.— Pleaſe to accept much
Love &
Reſpects from,
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