In order to bestow on principal People, I would chuse:to have 2) Setts out of the beforementioned 400 printed on a fine Paper & type and neatly bound, Lettered on the back and gilt, of two Setts of which I must beg your acceptance, & that you will make any alterations or additions which you may think necessary thro'out the work ordering the same to be bound in such manner as you shall judge most fitting.

Tam convinced you will have particular pleasure in taking under your inspection a performance calculated for the instruction of the ignorant, & the promoting of Christianity which with my experience of your abilities are the principal inducemts to offer you this trouble by recommending the whole to your care.

. Tam, The Revd Dr Barclay with Sincerity, Dear Sir, &c.

REV? M® WHEELOCK TO SIR W™ JOHNSON.

' Lebanon 20th Jany A D 1763. ir

The inclosed from M* Charles J effery Smith! is not the Fruit of an Enthusiastic turn of Mind or any Freak'of a heated Imagi-

- 1 Rev. C. J. Surrm was a descendant of Col. William Smith of St. George's Manor, L.I. It is surmised that his father was Henry §., who died in 1747, He was ordained at Lebanon in J une, 1763, and was ordered to proceed to Onohoghquage asa missionary, but he had not time to effect much good in that quarter, as his labors were interrupted by the Pontiac war. He returned in consequence, and went to Brookhaven where he resided in 1766. He afterwards itinerated in the south and was very successful as a preacher among the colored population of Virginia. He devoted much of his means to charitable purposes, Ep.