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306 REVEREND EZRA FISHER

twelve acres more of land lying immediately adjoining the site and we hope for a small donation from the ad- joining claim. 201 I must renew my private request that you find us a well qualified, literary young man and send him out to our relief as soon as practicable. I cannot think of being long confined five days in seven within the walls of a schoolhouse while so much is to be done in the ministry and there are so few laborers. But at present our brethren have so willed it and I comply from a conviction of duty rather than from a desire for the office. I wish to leave this matter with God. I trust I shall be able to make out my report up to this time next week.

I am as ever your unworthy brother and fellow-laborer in Christ's vineyard, EZRA FISHER,

Missionary in Oregon. Received May 27, 1850.

Oregon City, Feb. 19, 1850. Rev. Benj. M. Hill. Dear Brother:

Herein I send you my report of labor under the ap- pointment of the Home Mission Society from the 22nd of August, 1849, up to the first of Oct. for the term of ten weeks, it being the first report which I have made for the year commencing the first day of April, 1849. I have labored ten weeks in the quarter, preached fourteen sermons, delivered six lectures on the subject of Sunday schools and religious education, visited religiously fifty families and one common school, baptized one, traveled to and from appointments 535 miles. The remaining items of the report I have been unable to do anything for, except that the Sunday school in Clatsop Plains is con- tinued with three Baptist teachers and about twenty scholars; about 135 volumes in the library. For a more

201 This donation from the adjoining claim was never made.