It hapens so that I Cant at this time Come my Self and thefore must rely on your own Goodness : but I have sent by as trusty a hand I thinck as any I Could Geet for indeed he seems to be the truest to me of any of them and he is a Christian if there is one any where amongst them: St. I owe to the value of three pounds which I have taken up since I begun to teach these people: and I have had no opertunity of Earning any thing for myself for these people will give nothing. $*I tell your honor of all that has hapened me. There is here two sorts people the one is for the religion and the other is not and that Party is allways striving to hurt me by words and some times allmost to the taking of my life but with the help of God I stand it though with Great Difficulty and Danger. S'I have been at onidia and had there 18 Scholars and I have teached so long that the are Come to 4 Shurly s*. you know as well as I that at this Time of the year the are scattered Every where, but I believe when the minister Comes there will be a Great many more that will Learn our tongue. but St there has been here at onidia som o the other sort of people which told them that the English wanted these to take up with our religion and then the land willbe all theirs But I have told to the Contrary and tell them that it [is] for the Good of their Souls that the English wants to learn them and not for lands for they have Jand Enough I Beg St your honour will Give no heed to fals storeys for the bearer of this will [convince] you to your own satisfaction.