Jabez Bingham, letter, to Eleazar Wheelock, 1770 September 5

haveing a Convenient oppo^r^tunity by Captain Wright to write to the Docttor I am told to Improve it I had a long and fiteaging Jurny home but thru Divine goodneſs I am well and got a Long well the former letter which the doctor wrote to Madam Reſpecting the removal Dated August the 21 Came ſafe by Mr. Jones but the folks here Not thinking to remove So So^o^n as they are now Certified they therefore made no preparation for a Removal the Last Letter the Doctor Wrot dated 27 August came a little before I arrived Which was the third & Inst and Length^neſs^ of time from the date of the letter to the reception of it retards our removal one week later than the proposed time I have procured 3 box^es^ of — Glas at Old Hadley it is 6 by 8 and no other Iſ to be had Sir Unces has got a barrel of rum and a barrel of molasses a cog of Wine and half a barrel of Shuggar and Sundry other thing the knifes and forks Ware put into the box of books Left at Nov 4; Exetor is very hys in the insteph and Sas he Wont go Without peggy goes and all His things put by and Elezer give Duty to there father pleas to give my Love to nipty and Except much Duty from my Self

To The Revd. Eleazar Wheelock D. D— President of Dartmouth College