my Removal thither may be favorable to my Design of entering into Holy Orders: for which office may I be better prepared--I Tam now engaged by the Rev' Mr Avery in the Service of the Society for propagating the Gosple in foreign Parts--from which Venerable Society I understand that you St have Instructions with Respect to Fort Johnson,--Now all things considered it is my Resolve with Respect to leaving Rye to hearken to yours & Mr. Avery's Advice and that no one have Occasion to repent of favor granted to me shall be the steady purpose of your humble servant Joun Rann.

Rye April 3.1769 | To the Revd D*. Achmuty

P. S. Rey4 Sir, in the above Letter you have Mt Rand's sentiments respecting Sir William Johnsons Request--Mr. Rand is complaisant enough to leave the whole affair to our judgment and will chearfully comply with our Directions, please therefore to act your own Discretion Jetting me know, very soon (by a Line) your Determination. kind Respects to Mts Auchmuty and Family conclude me, Rev Sir,

Your Friend and Brother | Erum Avery.1

REV. HARRY MUNRO TO SIR WM. JOHNSON.

Honourable Sir, Being just now returned from New York, I

beg Leave to send you inclosed a Letter from Doctor Auchmuty.

1 Rev. Epuraim Avery, of Pomfret, Conn., obtained the degree of A. B. from Yale College, and in 1767 received that of Master of Arts from the King's College, New York. His mother, it is said, was Deborah Avery, afterwards wife of John Gardiner, of Gardiner's Island, and subsequently married to Major Gen. Putnam. Mr. Avery succeeded Mr, Punderson as minister of Rye in 1765, and continued in charge of that church until the Revolution, when he became so obnoxious to the whigs that his horses were seized, his cattle driven off and his property plundered.