Honored Sir-- It wall be five years the last day of next month since my most honored patrons the Venerable Society were pleased to order me to embark to proceed on my Mission tlie w^hi9h I obeyed and embarked that same day but there were more hindrance than one that detained the Fleet 'till the 10^^ of April and in the interim I w^as tossed about from one expensive harbour to another with my family having my Wife visited on board wdth two fits of sickness and obliged each fit to bring jier asliore for the help of a Doctor which was not a little trouble & charge to me and besides all this the j£20 I was forced to pay

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274 PAPERS RELATIKG TO CHURCHES IN QUEENS COUNTY.

for our passage & the twice laying in of sea Stores put me to very great straits the lO^h of April we left tlie Lands end of England and had a very tedious and uneasy passage of 13 weeks lacking two or three days. In this passage I had great experience of the goodness of God and often liad ocasion to reflect on the Royal Psalmist's expressions in Psalm 10.7. 23 &'^ where he has these woj-ds -- They that go down to tlie Sea in ships and occupy their business in great waters these men see the works of tlie Lord and his wonders in tlie dee]> L" I saw indeed & wondered and often expected in the great tempests we had to have been swallowed up of tlie merciless waves, but when we Avere in our trouble and almost brouglit to our wit's end We cried unto the Lord and he was graciously pleased to hear us and bring us tho' not into the haven where we would have been yet unto a Ciiristian s'>ore yea unto the Island where my Mission was to terminate about 100 miles from my Parish Here the ship and part of her Ladhig was lost on the 7'^ July but not the life of one person.