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When the weather permitted to which, some of the Citizens, and the Prisoners who were adjoining us attended ; and who, declared themselves happy, in having an Opportunity of hearing the Gospel preached there being no protestant Minister in the place. They were also delighted with the devotion of the Indian hearers, and with their singing. Children were also frequently baptised by the Missionaries.

While we were taking measures to remove to the River Huron, & make a beginning with the twenty eight Christian Indians, now with us, we had the joy to recieve Letters from our Brethren La Trobe and Wollin in London, dated 19th and 20th of March last (1782) & brought from thense by Sir John Johnson, who had lately arrived at Montreal; by which Letters it appeared, that the account of our being taken Prisoners on the Muskingum, and led Captives to Sandusky, had reached England thro a Philadelphia Newspaper. These Brethren, on recieving this account, immediately took measures towards relieving our wants, which they naturally supposed to be great (as indeed was the case,) by procuring permission, from the Members of the Society for the propogation of the Gospel among the Heathen, to send a Letter of Credit in our favour, for One hundred pounds Sterling, to a Trading house in Montreal. How thankful we were to that Society, and those Brethren for this valuable, and seasonable present, especially as we had now in a manner to begin the World anew, not having sufficient Cloaths and Bedding