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As to my leaving the School at Rye, to engage in the same employ at Fort Johnson, I am pleasedwith the Motion,—mangre the Consideration of Salary in one Place & the other : hopeing thatmj’ Removal thither may be favorable to my Design of entering into Holy Orders : for which officemay I be better prepared—I am now engaged by the Rev (1 M r Avery in the Service of the Societyfor propagating the Gosple in foreign Parts—from which Venerable Society I understand that youS r have Instructions with Respect to Fort Johnson,—Now all things considered it is my Resolvewith Respect to leaving Rye to hearken to yours & Mr. Avery’s Advice and that no one haveOccasion to repent of favor granted to me shall be the steady purpose of your humble servantRye April 3. 1769. John Rand.

To the Rev d D r . Achmuty

P. S. Rev d Sir, in the above Letter you have M r Rand’s sentiments respecting Sir William John-sons Request—Mr. Rand is complaisant enough to leave the whole affair to our judgment and willchearfully comply with our Directions, please therefore to act your own Discretion letting me know,very soon (by a Line) your Determination, kind Respects to M rs Auchmuty and Family concludeme, Rev d Sir,

Your Friend and Brother

Ephm A very. *

REV. HARRY MUNRO TO SIR WM. JOHNSON.

Honourable Sir,

Being just now returned from New York , I beg Leave to send you inclosed a Letter fromDoctor Auchmuty.

I am sorry that my unexpected Journey did put it out of my Power to wait on the Indians atEaster , as I intended, but my Business was so urgent, that I am persuaded you will readily excuseme. I shall be much obliged to you Sir, if you will acquaint the Indians, that I am now ready towait on them ; on Trinity Sunday , being the Twenty first of May. If that Day will not Suit, Iwill wait Upon them on the Seventh of May, being the Sunday next before Whitsunday. Youwill please inform me by first opportunity, what time will be most Agreeable to you, & I willendeavour to come up accordingly ; but whitsunday you know, is a particular festival on winchI must administer the Sacrement to my Congregation at Albany, very little News at New York ;The Packet was not arrived. M r Cruger is chosen Speaker in the Assembly, to the no Smallmortification of a certain Party, who have lost Ground not only in New York , but in Philad a likewisehave lately received a mortal wound.

1 Rev. Ephraim Avery, of Pomfret, Conn., obtained the degree of A. B. from Yale College , and in 1767 received that ofMaster of Arts from the King’s College, New York . His mother, it is said, was Deborah Avery, afterwards wife of JohnGardiner, of Gardiner’s Island, and subsequently married to Major Gen. Putnam. Mr. Avery succeeded Mr. Punderson asminister of Rye in 1765, and continued in charge of that church until the Revolution, when he became so obnoxious to theWhigs that his horses were seized, his cattle driven off and his property plundered. He died 5 November 1776. GeneralPutnam’s wife died in 1777, at Head quarters in the Highlands, and was interred in Beverly Robinson’s family vault.— Bolton.

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