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460 REVEREND EZRA FISHER

country, but its position is good, being twelve miles east from Salem, the present seat of government, and in the heart of an extensively rich farming country. The commu- nity are mostly farmers. The members are intelligent and in- fluential. This church have sustained a Sunday school the last year and will probably soon resume it. Yours respectfully,

EZRA FISHER, Exploring Agenf.

The Oregon City church at the regular meeting on the 3d of July invited Rev. George C. Chandler to continue to labor with them another year; resolved that they would raise $100 to- ward his support and appointed a committee to confer with Br. Chandler, learn the sum necessary to support his fami- ly and, should Br. Chandler comply with the request, make application to the Home Missionary Society for aid suffi- cient to enable him to devote himself exclusively to the min- istry. . ..

The church committee were informed that a committee appointed by the Methodist church to inquire into the nec- essary expenses of their minister stationed at Oregon City, with a family of the minister, his wife and one little child, a babe, exclusive of the parsonage, which would probably rent for $300 or $400, reported to the church $850. . ..

To the Executive Board of the Am. Bap. Home Missionary Society: The church at Oregon City desires the reappoint- ment of Elder George C. Chandler as a missionary of the American Baptist Home Missionary Society to labor all the time within its bounds for twelve months from the first day of Sept. 1852, at a salary of $1250, one hundred dollars of which the church pledges herself she will pay: By order of the church, George P. Newell, Lyman D. C. Latourette, 266 Ezra Fisher, Committee of the Church.. Received Sept. 13, 1852.

266 For G. ?. Newell, see note 240.

L. D. C. Latourette (1825-1886), was born in New York, came to Oregon in 1848, and after a short stay in the California mines in 1849, returned to Oregon City. In and near this town he spent the remainder of his life. His first wife, Lucy Jane Gray, was the eldest daughter of the author. She died in 1864, and Mr. Latourette later married her younger sister, Ann Eliza.