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Bedding to secure ourselves against the Cold of this climate. Even the Commandant rejoiced with us and suggested a way to obtain the Money, although it would probably not be before the following Spring; as the distance was great and no passage to Montreal during the Winter Season. But Mr. John Askin, the Gentleman to whom the Governor advised us to apply, to procure the money, very generously offered, to pay us the whole immediately on our bare word, that such a Letter of credit had been sent to the house in Montreal: and which he accordingly did.

The Commandant, having also liberally assisted us in various ways, furnishing us with Provisions; a Boat; a quantity of plants together with some necessary utensils, 2 Milch Cows & some Horses; at the same time his kind Lady presented us with Roots, and an assortment of Garden seeds &c The Brethren Zeisberger and Youngman with their Wives, and the single Brethren Edwards and Young, set out with Nineteen of our Indians on the 20th of July, for the new place, and arrived there the next day in the evening; while the Missionaries Senseman and Heckewelder (the writer of this) with their families, and the remainder of the Christian Indians who had come on, remained at Detroit, to attend to the concerns of the [?recovering?] Mission. The new place they were gone to, they called Gnadenhutten. The