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CORRESPONDENCE

come back to Oregon owed a man over $200 failed of

meeting

Now

time.

sinned as

I

if

I

have never in my public life any given time, and never but once I

so.

at

pecuniary liabilities punctually at the have sinned in drawing this draft, I have

my

have done before, unadmonished.

I

sincerely re-

Board any trouble on that account

gret to occasion you or the

or in any measure to occasion Abernathy to doubt my integIf your Board should protest the order, will they do rity.

me

the favor to issue a draft in favor of

me

to that

amount

and pass it over to Abernathy & Co. and pay it immediately, as I have received the money and been obliged to pay out a part of it already to keep up my family. The remaining part Will you do me the favor is passing away in the same way. hereafter to settle my accounts at the end of each quarter, on the receipt of my quarterly report, and within three weeks from that time forward me a draft covering the amount due me at the time and let this be a standing order except when otherwise directed.

Rest assured, dear brother, that through any unkind feelings. .

I

do not make

As

ever yours,

this request

.

EZRA FISHER, Exploring Agent. Received June

8.

Oregon

To

Rev. Benjamin M.

City,

O. Ter., July

1st,

1855.

Hill,

Am. Bap. Home Mission Soc. send you my report of labor under the appointment of the Home Mission Society for the first quarter of Cor. Sec. of

Herein



I

the year, ending June 30th as General Itinerant. I have labored 13 weeks in the quarter; preached 23 ser?

mons

12 prayer meetings, nine church covenant have assisted at the organization of the church in meeting's; the city of Portland 367 have traveled to and from my appoint;

attended



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367 This was organized by Revs. W. F. Boyakin, H. Johnson, and the author, May 6, 1855. Mattoon, Bap. An. of Ore., 1: 14. The author says there were eleven constituent members; Mattoon> ten.