_To C―――― H――――y, Esq._
_Portsmouth, March 23, 1764._
_Very dear Sir_,
HOW was my heart eased by receiving yesterday your kind letter, dated _October 22d_? If you and dear Mr. _K――――n_ will continue to manage when I am present, as well as when I am absent, it may give another turn to my mind. Who knows what a never-failing GOD may do in a few months! At present, my way is clear to go on preaching till I can journey southward. The inclosed will inform you what hath been done by one sermon at _Providence_, formerly a most ungodly place, forty miles south of _Boston_. At _Newbury_, which I left yesterday, is a stir indeed. On Lord’s-day I shall begin here. O for daily fresh gales! That they may every day more and more increase with you and all your dear relations, and all dear friends, is the hearty prayer of, very dear Sir, in great haste, but greater love,
Yours, &c. &c. &c. in JESUS,