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Leland sent him a great cheese, presumably as a present. Mr. Jefferson was not in the habit "of deadheading at hotels," nor of receiving presents, however inconsiderable in value, which would place him under any obligation to the donor. The diary contains the following minute regarding the cheese: 1802. Gave Rev'd Mr. Leland, bearer of the cheese of 1235 Ibs weight, 200 D.
He found it wildly droll to puzzle out those "crossed" four sheets of trivialities written in an Italian hand so minute and orderly that the finished page suggested a fly-screen. He had so often remonstrated with Agatha about her penuriousness as concerned stationery. "Selina Brice & the Rev'd Henry Anstruther, who now has a church in Seattle, have announced their engagement.
CHARLESTOWN, December 23, 1806. REV'D AND RESPECTED SIR, I presume that it might be agreeable to you to know the precise state of the property which originally belonged to the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia. I have with some pains obtained the law of that State respecting this singular business. I make no comments on the above.
Immediately afterwards the family wigwam was struck and removed into the thickest part of the village that the parents might be the better consoled for the loss of their child. The important services rendered by Father Bourg to government during the American Revolution will be told in another chapter. The first clergyman of the Church of England to visit the River St. John was the Rev'd.
I have hitherto been a zealous opponent of the Circean herb, but I shall now reexamine the question without bias. I am aware that the Rev'd Jonas Tutchel, in a recent communication to the Bogus Four Corners Weekly Meridian, has endeavoured to show that this is the sepulchral inscription of Thorwald Eriksson, who, as is well known, was slain in Vinland by the natives.
We shall have something more to say of their first resident minister, the Rev'd. Seth Noble, when we come to deal with events on the river at the time of the American Revolution. As already stated the first Protestant church on the river was erected at Maugerville in the year 1775.
Wood was a very simple one, and if there were any hymns they were sung from memory, for there is reason to believe that there was not a single hymn book in the community, with the exception of a copy of Watt's psalms and hymns owned by James White. Notwithstanding the difficulties of the situation, the Rev'd. Thomas Wood on the occasion of his first Sunday at St.
Included in the number were the Burpees, Barkers, Perleys, Jewetts, Palmers and others whose decendants are quite numerous in the province today. Rowley was a stronghold of New England puritanism and, if we are to credit the testimony of the Rev'd.
If you would be so good as to suggest anything that you thought useful for me to know or to examine into, I shall receive your directions with great respect and gratitude. "I am, with sincere esteem, "Rev'd Sir, Y'r m. ob. & m. h. S'r, "Wm. "Edinburgh, 1 Jan. 1759.
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