_To Mr. D――――n, &c._
_New-York, December 7, 1763._
_My very dear Friends_,
WHAT a mortification do you think it must be to me, to part thus from,
and not to accompany my dear Mr. _H――――m_ to _Bethesda_? Thus it was
near twenty years ago, and yet I came, though he left me so ill at
_New-England_. Assure yourselves, I shall come as soon as possible. In
the mean while, I have desired Mr. _H――――m_ to assist in supervising
and settling the accompts, and to give his advice in respect to the
house, plantation, &c. &c. I beg you will be so good as to let me
have an inventory of every individual thing, the names and number of
the negroes, and what you think is necessary to be done every way. I
would only observe in general, that I would have the family lessened
as much as may be, and all things contracted into as small a compass
as possible. And now once more adieu, though I trust but for a short
season. My heart is too full to enlarge. I have not got the account of
the children taken in since the first institution; it is left I believe
in _New-England_. I purpose going thither now from the southward. But
it will be better to go to heaven. Come, LORD JESUS, come quickly! Dear
Mr. _H――――m_ will inform you of all particulars concerning the gospel
ministrations of, my very dear friends,
Yours, ever yours, &c. &c. in CHRIST,
_G. W._