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Worthy Sir,

BEING informed that there is a part of the goods that be come over (in the late ships) that belong to the College, therefore being unwilling to trouble the whole Court with the business, I thought it sufficient to acquaint you with my mind, so much rather because you have received in my accounts for the last year, and may when you please (on two days' warning) for this year, since the beginning of 8.ber, 1642, to the same, 1643. Now two things do I desire; the first, that what is coming to the College may be paid me in kind, for the last year's rate, which was given me, besides all the delays and over-prevailing entreaties of some poor neighbours that thought themselves overcharged, and so have got partly some releases, and many whole forbearance even to this day. This disconvenience hath been distractive, that I was to receive it at so many men's hands; and albeit the constables should have saved me this labour, yet our neighbours, knowing I should receive it inevitably, appealed from them to myself. Yea, also, that gross sum of £40, that was to be paid from one man, hath not; nor indeed could it be paid without distraction to myself in accounts, and turnings over; and unwillingness in some to receive there, with some words of complaint as if their expectation were not answered in that which they received, wherein they in a sort both blamed myself, because they received not satisfaction at my hands immediately, and him from whom they had it, though both of us causelessly. Therefore, my first desire is, that the College may have its due in kind, if this may be no offence; else I submit.

The second thing is this, that you would be pleased to inform those whom it may concern, that hitherto, with all conscionable and diligent providence that I could, have I disburst and expended whatever hath come to hand in mere buildings for the house; and seeing that now that work in this house will draw to a period (though haply £30 will not fully finish it yet) I desire to know whether the country will allow me any personal interest in any of the said goods, for and in consideration of the abatements

that I have suffered, from £60 to £50, from £50 to £45, from £45 to £30, which is now my rent from the ferry, and you know in what manner in my family charged, and by my tenants discharged. I was and am willing, considering the poverty of the country, to descend to the lowest step, if there can be nothing comfortably allowed me; I still sit down appeased, desiring no more but what may supply me and mine with food and raiment, (and to give every one their own) to the furtherance of the success of our labours for the good of Church and Commonwealth, without distraction in the work whereunto 1 am called, and, by God's great mercy and goodness, cheerfully therein abide; desiring your prayers for a continuance, and your praises to God for the sanctifying of all the passages of his fatherly providence towards Your loving and much bounden

Cambr. 7 bris 18th, 1643.

HENRIE DUNSTER.

This letter was undoubtedly to Governour WINTHROP.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF DONATIONS.

THE thanks of the Massachusetts Historical Society are presented for the following donations.

A. HOLMES, Corresponding Secretary.

Webster's Discourse at Plymouth, December 22, 1820, in commemoration of the first settlement of New England. Presented by the Trustees of the Pilgrim Society.

Tuckerman's Discourse before the Society for propagating the Gospel among the Indians and others in North America, 1821. The Society.

A Vindication of Mr. Adams's Oration; Trial of Daniel Davis Farmer for the murder of Anna Ayer, 1821. Mr. J. B. Moore.

Tenth Report of the New Hampshire Bible Society.

Mr. John Farmer.

Wells's Address before the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanick Association. The President of the Association. Perry's Discourse in Bradford 200 years after the settlement of New England. The Author. Pierce's Discourse at the Dudleian Lecture, 1821.

The Author.

Charter of the New Hampshire Medical Society.
Hon. Samuel Morrill.

Colman's Sermon at the Installation of Rev. James
Flint in Salem.
The Author.
Jenks's Sermon before the Massachusetts Society for
the Suppression of Intemperance, 1821. The Author.

The true Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captain John Smith, in Europe, Asia, Africke and America. 2 vols. 8vo. Richmond, Virg. John Dorr, Esq. Ancient Sermons, 12mo. (title page wanting.) James Savage, Esq.

Rev. Israel Evans's Discourse, delivered at Easton, 17th October, 1779, to the Officers and Soldiers of the Western Army; Rev. Mr. French's Election Sermon, New Hampshire, 1822; Historical Sketch of Amherst in New Hampshire, by John Farmer; Memorial from Auctioneers of the City of New York to the Congress of the United States; Report on a Disease afflicting Cattle at Burton, N. H. by James F. Dana, M. D.

Mr. John Farmer. Topographical and Historical Sketch of the Town of Andover, N. H. by Jacob B. Moore. The Author. Collections, Topographical, Historical and Biographical, relating principally to New Hampshire. Nos. I. and II. of Vol. I.

The Editors, J. Farmer and J. B. Moore. Minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, from A. D. 1814 to 1821 (excepting the year 1818;) Narrative of the State of Religion within the Bounds of the General Assembly of

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Sketches of the Ecclesiastical History of the State of Maine, from the earliest settlement to the present time, by Jonathan Greenleaf, Pastor of a Church in Wells. The Author.

Two Discourses, containing the History of the Church and Society in Cohasset, delivered December 16, 1821; with a Geographical Sketch of Cohasset; by Jacob Flint. The Author.

Historical Sketch of the Convention of the Congregational Ministers in Massachusetts; with an Account of its Funds; its connexion with the Congregational Charitable Society; and its Rules and Regulations.

Corresponding Secretary.

Report on Free Negroes and Mulattoes.

Theodore Lyman, jun. Esq.

Another copy of the same Report.

Nathan Hale, Esq.

Historical Notices of the New North Religious Society in Boston, with Anecdotes of Rev. Andrew and John Eliot. Mr. Ephraim Eliot.

Europe, or a General Survey of the present Situation of the principal Powers, &c. with Remarks on the Censuses of the Government of the United States.

The Author of the Remarks. A Sketch of the Life of Robert Morris: written for the Philadelphia Edition of the Edinburgh Encyclopædia. The Author.

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The Boston Gazette.

Messrs. Russell & Gardner.

The New England Galaxy. Mr. J. T. Buckingham.

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Seven elegant Medals, representing distinguished characters and events, preserved in a handsome case:1. Christopher Columbus.-2. Washington.-3. Franklin.-4. Paul Jones.-5. Kosciusko.-6. William Washington.-7. John Eger Howard.—The two last commemorate the battle of the Cowpens. All have appropriate emblems and inscriptions. On the reverse of G. Washington's is the following: HOSTIBUS PRIMÒ FUGATIS.-BosTONIUM RECUPERATUM, XVII. MARTII MDCCLXXVI. Hon. George William Erving.

MEMBERS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY, ELECTED SINCE THE PUBLICATION OF THE LIST, VOL. 1. P. 8.

RESIDENT MEMBERS.

James Savage, Esq. of Boston.
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Rev. Charles Lowell, of Boston.

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Levi Hedge, Esq. Professor of Logick and Metaphysicks in Harvard

University.

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* Rev. Stephen Palmer, of Needham.
Ichabod Tucker, Esq. of Salem.
John Pickering, Esq. of Salem.
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Hon. Nahum Mitchell, of Bridgewater.
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William Winthrop, Esq. of Cambridge.
Nathan Hale, Esq. of Boston.
Rev. Samuel Ripley, of Waltham.

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