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[MS 100]

Per favor of Brother Crook
received this 26 of November 1803

Mr Rowland Hassall
Paramatta
New South Wales

[MS 101]

Very dear Sir

Bearing in mind your former intimate relation to the Missionary Society, & hearing, from every quarter, the chearful Services Tenderd by you to such Missionaries as call at Sidney; together with reports of your good conversation in Christ, we embrace this opportunity of expressing our affectionate remembrance of you. Accept, dear Sir, our sincere congratulations, and believe that we shall always rejoice in your happiness, and to the utmost of our abilities endeavour to promote it.
    Permit us to commend to you, during their stay, Mr [Cam] and Mr and Mrs Crook. They receive a free passage by favour of Government, and are going to replenish the Mission of Otaheite. We are extremely desirous of augmenting the number of female Missionaries on that Island, not only for their sakes who are already there, but for the Conveniency of the Single Brethren also who find it is not good to be alone.
      Do you think there are virtuous & pious Women in your Colony who wou'd be willing to accompany Messrs Crook & Cam? Is not your own heart at that first place of destination? Could you not glorify God among your Brethren? Perhaps, it might help to  repair the injuries done to the Society by the hasty secession of yourself and others in the hours of alarm, were you again to Cast in your lot among those who remained at their post; of this, however, you are the best

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