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336 REVEREND EZRA FISHEI

school till relief comes, preach as much as I can and leave all with God. I moved to our College claim the 29th of Nov. Yours in gospel bonds,

EZRA FISHER, Missionary at Oregon City. Received March 10, 1851. On Margin:

N. B. I have received no letter from you since the one under date of Sept. 4th and 7th informing me of Br. Chand- ler's appointment. I have answered them.

Oregon City, Feb. 17, 1851. Rev. Benj. M. Hill,

Cor. Sec. A. B. H. M. Soc. Dear Brother:

Yours under date Oct. 19th, Nov. llth and Dec. 9th have all come to hand, together with duplicates of the invoice of goods and bills of lading of the same on board the bark Francis and Louisa. We hope they may arrive safe in the month of April, but I have taken my pen in haste, worn out with fatigue, to make another application to your Board for a re-appointment for one year. I will here insert a copy of the requests from the church in this place and from the Board of Trustees of the Oregon City College.

At the regular church meeting Feb. 1, 1851, voted to recommend Elder Ezra Fisher to the Board of the A. B. H. Mission Socy. for re-appointment to labor in this place and vicinity for the term of one year.

F. A. COLLARD, 2 33 HEZEKIAH JOHNSON,

Clerk. Mod.

Oregon City, Feb. 6th, 1851.

This is to certify that at a meeting of the Trustees of the Oregon City College held at the Baptist" meeting house in said city on the day and year first aforesaid, it was agreed to recommend to the Board of the A. B. H. Mission Soc. Elder

233 F. A. Collard came to Oregon in 1847. He later served three terms in the legislature. Hist, of Willamette Valley, p. 669.