_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,