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Tritchinapoly 7^th July 1783.

pr. 25. Jun. 84.

Very Reverend and Worthy Sir.

With the greatest Respect I herewith

humbly beg Leave to pay Your Reverence my grateful Ac-
knowledgments which besides being encouraged by my honoured Fa-
ther I think myself greatly obliged to do for Your paternal good
Wishes, and kind Remembrance of me in Your Epistles to my
honoured Father: and considering Your particular Relation to the
Church of Christ in this Part of the World. I think myself under
great Obigation humbly to lay before You a short account of
myself and of my Business, hoping that it will meet with your
kind Acceptations.

About the 9^th Year of my Age which

was in the year 1770 it pleases God to remove me from my
honoured Parents to this Place, where having had the Happiness
of receiving a christian Education under the kind Care of my ho-
noured God Father the Rev^d M^r. Swartz I was confirmed
and received the Lord's Supper the first Time on the 19^th of April
1778. I humbly adore and thank God for alle his rich and
undeserved Mercies bestowed upon me, and for placing me in
such a happy Condition wherein I have experienced many
Proofs of his paternal Care and Protection over me, and of
his Goodness in raising me several kind Friends and Benefac-
tors, who have shewed many a Token of christian Affection, and
of a true Concern of making me capable to live to the Glory of
God, and for the Use of my fellow Creatures. One of these my
Benefactors namely the honoured Major William Stevens God
was pleased suddenly to take unto himself on the 14^th Oct^r 1778.
- May God bless and abundantly reward all my kind Benefac-
tors for all the Kindness and Favours they have shewed to me