[illegible][guess: Aa] After
much Warry and Fatigue about my
Houſe and Journeys after alſo hungry Belly I began to keep my School
ſteadily
ſometime in
November. My Scholars learn very well:
I
find it is impoſſible to keep the Children ſteadily to School.
[illegible] Men labour and work as Engliſh do: They are lazy and inh
[illegible]u-
man pack of Creatures as I ever ſaw. in the World; They have ſeen
me working and tuging Day after Day and never offerd to help
me in the leaſt thing I had
^to do^ in my Houſe only finiſhd covering it
and
[illegible] left me. I was oblig'd
^to^ eat with Dogs near two Months & I
ſay with Dogs because they are allways licking Water out off the
Pails and Kettles we uſe: Now I live like a Gentleman, I have a
planly of Corn, Flour, Meat, and rotten Fiſh.— I applied to
Sir William for Proviſion; accordingly, he order the Commading
Officer at the
Royal Block Houſe to give me out Priviſion as
long as I ſhould want.
I am exceeding ſorry as well as my poor Friends that
Mr Chamberlain does not return
^to^ us this
Winter.— The In-
di
[illegible]ans
cannot conceive what care be the Reaſon why he don't
return. But I told them three Reaſon, why he dont, return: and af-
ter they heard them they were eaſy.
I never ſaw
ſuch general Dispoſition of hearing
the Word of God amongſt these poor People as I do now: moſt
every one of the Adults of this Place, have openly renouc'd their
Liquor, and ſaid that they will devote themſelves in hearing
the Word of God. Now is the Time for Miniſters to come
up whilſt they are in ſuch
Diſpoſition.— O for a Mini
ſter
whoſe Heart is full of Love to God and Compaſſion to poor
Sinners, one who is meak and lowly and crafty in wining
Souls to Chriſt. who has a real Sence and worth of Immortal
Souls would greatly weaken the ſtrong Holds of Satan in this
Place. — Dear Sir, do all that is in your
Power to get
up a Miniſter early in the Spring. for the poor Creatures
are rearly
deſirous to hear the Word of God, we have no Mini
ſter and yet we have a full Aſſembly every Sabbath. I have
nothing New to acquaint you; I enjoyy a good ſtate of Health and
am contented.
I cant come down till
ſome of y
e Scholars come up and
take my School. If
Jacob is to come up; do let him take a School
near me ſo
[illegible] that I may take care of him. — I want all my
Cloaths in readineſs, for I ſhall be in a very
^great^
Haſt when I do
come. I determine to ſee my poor Parents before I re
turn; for I ſerv'd them baſely
laſt Fall. If they ſuffer
I cant tell how I can come up. Joseph dertermines to
come down and pay you Viſit
alſo
Thomas who has done
me more Service than all
the
Town. He tells me; that he
deſigns to go down with me and ſet
my Rib on his Horſe
and he will come up with own
^his^
Horſes or Legs, that, is
if I ſhall find one. I rejoi
[illegible][guess: c] greatly because I could
^[left]not^
^no^ get one laſt Year. eſpicially for
Wooley. I hear he
has no Houſe.
I Juſt now heard of
Mr
Kirtland he is
poor for
gſaken Man. The
Indians have drove him out
off their Houſes and now he lives in a poor House
[illegible] in
the
Woods my Friends cant conceive what he keeps them
for: the
Indians dont want him there; for they all
hat him. It ſeems to me by what
Mr Gray has
w
[illegible]rote to him
that he is uneaſy.
fo
Capt Buller
cre-
ceivd
^a Letter^ from him whilſt I was at his Houſe. and immediatly
ask'd me how many Letters I
[illegible] brought for
Mr
Kirtland I
tol
[illegible]d him one. &c Tell y.
r
oldeſt Boy who went
^down^ the laſt
that
^went down^ both his Parents left
off geting dr
iunk.
I forgot to tell you what ſort of Cloth I would have
for my Cloaths.
^I want blue Broad Cloth [illegible] and that which is good.^ Give my kind Regards to
Madam,
alſo to
Sir Wheelock, and Maſter. and Love to the reſt of the
Family alſo to all the Scholars. — That the Lord would
prolong your worthy Live, and make you a rich Bleſsing
in the World, alſo an Inſtrument of ſpreading the Gospel
amongſt the poor Heathen in this Continent and after
we
[gap: hole][guess: ll]
ſpent Li
vfe here receive your in the Manſions
Joy and there to ſhine as the Stars in the Firmament
forever and ever is the Deſire and Prayer.
P.S. I hope
^you will^
[illegible] you will
overlook all my im
[illegible]per
fections in This Letter
for I wrote the bigeſt Part
of it in Darkneſs.