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and they appear to us to be in a thriving way, as to spirit-uals, as well as temporals. It being their practise to meet for Divine Worship twice every first day, under the profession of the Baptists, and exercise their own spiritual gift, when no Minister attends them. Others of us are now at Fort Schuyler, looking out a little impatiently for Jacob Taylor, of whom we have yet heard no tidings. Tomorrow we are to introduce ourselves to some more I hope to receive letters from you by Post at Canandaigua thro' Captain Chapin of the principal persons of the neighborhood; and next day to rejoin our Friends at Oneida, from whence I shall probably write again, before we set out for the westward, to repeat the feelings of my heart, which are continually reminding me of the near and dear Relations, Friend, and even Acquaint-ance, and Fellow Citizens, that I have left behind me. Joseph Sansom