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 CORRESPONDENCE

Oregon

To

Rev. Benjamin M.

City,

101

O. Ten, Jan.

1st,

1855.

Hill,

Am. Bapt. Home Mission Soc. send you my report of labor under the appointment of the Home Mission Society as General Itinerant for Cor. Sec. of

Herein



I

I have the 3rd quarter ending the 31st day of Dec., 1854. labored thirteen weeks in the quarter; preached 20 sermons;

attended six prayer meetings, two church covenant meetings and one council of three days visited religiously fifty- four families and other persons, one common school traveled to



and from my appointments six hundred and seventeen miles. Connected with the churches I have visited are three Sabbath schools, one in Pleasant Butte Church on Calapooia River, Lynn Co., one in West Union Church, Washington County, and one in Oregon City, numbering each about twenty-five scholars and four teachers. Respectfully submitted,

EZRA FISHER. General Itinerant.

Received Feb.

9.

Oregon

City,

O. Ter., Jan. 15th, 1855.

Rev. Benjamin M. Hill,

Am. Bap. Home Mission

Cor. Sec.

Dear Br.

Society.



my

pen to give you a brief account of my late tour The Dalles, a rising town and a military post on the Columbia near the east base of the Cascade Mountains. I left home on the 17th of Nov. and traveled twenty-two I take

from

this place to

mouth of the Sandy, a stream nearly Mohawk, which rises in the eternal snows

miles north to the large as the

Mount Hood and

as

of

flows into the Columbia at the west base

Cascade Range, twenty-five miles west from the Cascade Falls. Having failed of reaching the Columbia in time to take the regular steamer, I was detained

of

the

celebrated