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will bid you hearty welcome, and the faithful will pray, that great grace may rest upon you; and that you may be burning & shining light in your day. - May your conduct, in future life, be worthy of it. Your friends justly expect much of you. Be careful not to disappoint them.

 Such a council as this, had a great effect upon my mind, and no doubt contributed much of my having afterwards formed with such attachment to the clergy & their sacred office. I was at this time, much notice by them & I was as equally fond of their company as they were conversing with me. From the circumstance of my being a descended of the famous of the Rev. John Williams, whose captivity, sufferings & the destruction of his whole parish by the french & indians, being so noted, in that part of the country, that it excited a curiosity