Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III
Friday, Uh. -- Spent the day in visiting a number of families, and a School of about 35 children. Appointed a communion lecture.
Saturday 1th. -- Visited various families. Afternoon, preached to an attentive audience. Appearances agreeable.
Sunday, 8th. -- Communion. Most of the baptists present. Baptised 6 children -- had a chh. meeting after services -- and apparently, and I hope effectually, settled an unhappy difficulty which has subsisted in the chh. with one of its members for nearly a year. Appointed a lecture on Monday among the baptists.
Monday 9th. -- Visited some of the Welsh people. They appear to be a religious and regular body, a few excepted. Spent a few moments at the grave of the enterprising Stuben. He lies in a thick Swamp, under a small Hemlock, witiiout a monument. Alas! where is the sensibility of his heirs -- or of the Americans]
Afternoon -- Preached to a very attentive audience-- visited a school of 20 children -- engaged some books.
Tuesday 10//i.-- Spent the day in visiting-- called upon 9 differ-
IIIG inSSIOXARV TOUR TflROCGll THE
cnt (ainilies. Tlie people appear to be poor, but very considerate; and I lia^ e reason to believe there is more i^iety in Stuben, in proportion to the N" of inhabitants, than in any town on Connecticut Eiver. I iind the schools very destitute of books of all kinds. This people are progressing, however, very rapidly towards good order and good schooling. No meeting-liouse. The chh. being in want of Eooks suitable to be read upon the Sabbath, I gave them one volume of the Select Sermons. I think it proper to return to this place again.