grown cool again, and had maturely reflected on the Matter, they were all returned, and feveral others with them, who were in want of Bibles and Common-Prayer Books; and therefore the Society hath ordered fome to be sent to them.

The Reverend Mr. Backhouse, Miffionary at Chefter, by a Letter dated July 15, 1741, acquaints the Society, that the People under his Care perfevere in their Religious Principles, and he can affure the Society with Joy, that not one of them hath been infected by the modern Enthufiafts; about a Month before, he had gone about 40 Miles backwards to his old Acquaintance at Pequea, fome of whom were grown giddy brained with Methodism, and had refused to come to Church, but he had been fo fortunate as to fatisfy thofe, with whom he converfed: That the Society's Schoolmafter Mr. Houston had left them in queft of better Employment in Maryland; and one Mr. Charles Fortefcue had undertaken the School, and had hitherto approved himself the most diligent and able Schoolmafter they had ever had; and he therefore, together with the whole Body of his Congregation, very earnestly recommended him to the Society for that Office; to which the Society hath confented, and appointed Mr. Fortescue their Schoolmafter with a Salary of 10l. per Annum.

Mr. Currie, Miffionary at Radnor, by a Letter dated May 2, 1741, writes, that he had received a Box of Books from the Society, which will be of great Service to Religion, and he will take Care

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to diftribute them, where they are most wanted; that all the People, who had left the Church to follow the new Preachers, are returned to it again, infomuch that he hath the fame Number of Communicants at Radnor; and at Perquiboma they are increased: And the Whole Duty of Man is now much esteemed by Hundreds, who knew nothing of it, before Mr. Whitefield condemned it: He had given away all the Copies of it, he had by him, and purchased fome at his own Charge, and prays the Society to fend him more; and the Society hath ordered him 24 Copies of the Whole Duty of Man. According to Mr. Currie's Notitia Parochialis he had baptized in the last half Year, 48 Infants and four Adults; and the Number of his Communicants is 80.

The Reverend Mr. Ufher, Miffionary at Dover, by a Letter dated June 13, 1741, returns Thanks for a Box of Books, which he will diftribute according to his best Discretion; and within the preceding Year he had baptized 104 Children, and 10 Adults: And by a fecond Letter dated September 30, 1741, he writes, that befides his regular Duty at Dover, he had vifited a back Settlement of People 20 Miles off, and baptized there 30 Children, and one Adult; and in the Whole, from the 13th of June preceeding, he had baptized 60 Perfons, but he finds great Difficulty in perfwading People to the Holy Communion, however he had lately wrought on fome, and hopes thro' God's Grace to prevail on many

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North Carolina.

The Society gave an Account to the Publick in the Abstract of their Proceedings in the Year 1739, that, upon the Recommendation of the Lord Bishop of London, and of Gabriel Johnston, Efq; Governor of North Carolina, they had appointed the Reverend Mr. Garzia, who refided in that Province, and from the Year 1733, to the Year 1738, had baptized no less than 2278 Perfons therein, to be their Itinerant Miffionary on the North East Side of the River Neufe in that Province. And by a Letter dated Bath Town in North Carolina, April 16, 1741, Mr. Garzia returns his most humble, and hearty Thanks to the Society for that Appointment; (as it feems, he had done before by a Letter dated May 26, 1741, but had fince discovered, that the Ship, in which the Letter was fent, had been taken by the Spaniards) and acquaints the Society, that the Governor had ordered his chief Refidence to be at Bath Town in the County of Beaufort, and that the Affembly of the Province, upon his laying the Secretary of the Society's Letter before them, had ordered him free Ferry-paffage over all the Rivers and Creeks within his Miffion; and he had not spared his Pains, as there was great need of a very diligent Performance of his Duty, in a Tract, where there are not less than 9000 Souls; and humbly prays for fome Tracts against Drunkennefs, Swearing, and the Breach of the Sabbath, and to instruct, and prepare the well inclined for the Holy Communion: Numbers of all which

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which have been fent him; together with a Silver Cup, (which he defired might be fent at his own Expence) for the more decent Celebration of the Lord's Supper. From the Year 1738, to the 16th of April 1741, the Date of Mr. Garzia's Letter, he had baptized 769 Perfons, of whom I had been Quakers; and the Number of actual Communicants were 99.

The Reverend Mr. Moir, appointed in the fame Year Itinerant Miffionary on the North West Side of the River Neufe in North Carolina, by a Letter dated Wilmington, October 29, 1740, writes, that thro' God's Bleffing he arrived fafe at his Miffion in May preceeding, and had travelled over moft Parts of it, which extends 150 Miles along the Coaft, and he finds the Inhabitants fo fcattered, that it will be impoffible to administer to them, as he could wifh; that the Generality of the People are very Ignorant, but feem willing to be inftructed, which hath encouraged him in his Labours; and he had then baptized 210 Children in his Travels among them. And by a Letter dated Wilmington, May 25, 1741, Mr. Moir writes, that he travelled over the Country twice between Cape Fear and the River Neufe, and performed the Duties of his Function, praying, preaching, and adminiftring the Holy Sacraments; and had baptized 306 white Children, and one Adult, and seven Negroe Children and two Adults; but the Number of Communicants was very small, the People being generally ignorant in Religion to the laft Degree.

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South Carolina.

The Reverend Mr. Leflie, late the Society's Miffionary to St. Paul's Parish, having been obliged thro' ill Health to return home, hath refigned that Parish; and upon the Petition of the Inhabitants thereof, and upon the Recommendation of the Reverend Mr. Commiffary Garden, the Society hath appointed the Reverend Mr. Orr, who for more than four Years had been Affiftant to Mr. Garden at Charles Town, and acted, as becomes his Holy Function, to be their Miffionary to St. Paul's Parish, with a Salary of 30 l. per Ann. And the Parish of Christ Church having become vacant by the Death of Mr. Small, the Society hath likewise appointed the Reverend Mr. Levi Durand, to fucceed Mr. Small, upon the Petition of the Inhabitants of Chrift-church, to whom Mr. Durand had officiated from the Death of Mr. Small. Mr. Durand's Letters of Ordination, and his Teftimonials having been previously inspected and approved by the Society, when he had applied to the Society for a Miffion, being going over to that Province on his private Affairs.

The Reverend Mr. Jones, Miffionary at St. Helens, by a Letter dated September 25, 1741, writes, that he was with great Pleasure informed of the pious Design of the Society to instruct their little Negroes in the Chriftian Faith, according to the Scheme of their Reverend Commiffary, by purchafing Negroes and fitting them for the Offace of Schoolmafters to the young Negroes in

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