"The Society's flock at the close of 1817, consisted of 17 sheep; of which only 5 were kept without expense. It now consists of 23, for all which gratuitous keeping is provided. Our annual money subscription is only $14; subscription of lambs 4, and keeping of 23 sheep. We calculate our sheep and lambs to produce at least $60 next year, which, with the balance on hand, and the expected Contributions, will enable us to pay $100 to the support of missions, as heretofore. The Society has reason to be thankful for the success attending the execution of its plan, which at first was new, and a year or two attended with discouragements which they could not control. Its business is now rendered easy; our farmers understand its object; and are pleased with sharing its success. We may reasonably hope to increase our flock, without additional expense." DONATIONS TO THE AMERICAN BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS, Addison, Vt. Mr. John F. Goodrich, for educating heathen children, by Intrim, N. H. A Society of young men, by Mr. James Wallace, for the Augusta, N. Y. The Congregational society, a New-year's gift, on the 35 18 The young people's Society, for ed. hea. youth at Cornwall, Benson, Vt. The Aux. For. Miss. Soc. half of which is for the Cherokee $300 8 25 8.70 9.09 44.00 Total. 6 50-41 68 mission, and half for missions abroad, Children in a Sabbath school, for the Cherokee school, 29.00 Berlin, Con. From ladies, by the Rev. S. Goodrich, for the Cherokee school, 1.00 From do. for Bombay school, 1 50 -2 50 Boston. From J. P. B. Bethesda, Geo. A collection by the Rev. C. Washburn, The monthly concert of the Old South and Park Street churches, for A society of ladies in Park Street church, for the education of a child in Carlisle, Ms. The monthly concert, by the Rev. Paul Litchfield, for the western mission, Charleston, S. C. Ladies, for a child named TRUMAN OSBORN, 2d payment, Durham, N. Y. From the first Presbyterian church by the Rev. Contribution at three monthly concerts, by the Rev.S. Williston, A small Bible class of girls, for the ed. of a hea. child, An old friend of missions, The Fem. Cent Soe. by Mrs. Sybil Hart, East-Bloomfield, N. Y. From Ira Bixby, by Mr. N Whiting, Seth 12 00 7.00 1 68 1 20 35 50 324 51 1.00 9.56 1.00 East-Hadd m, Con. A young lady, for the For Miss. School, by the same, 10 50---16 04 30 00 20 00 60 00 40.00 25 41 2.00 10. 00 Elmira, N. Y From Abigail Cleves, remitted by the Rev. Mr. Dwight, Fairfield, Co. Con. the western district, by M. Marvin, Esq. remitted by Total. 2.00 14 80 21 00 628 25 26.50 56 50 60 00 8.00 72 52 27 00 99 21 Farmington, Con. The Young Men's Soc. for ed. hea. children and Glastenbury, Con. Fem. For. Miss. Soc. by Mrs. Betsey Hall, remitted Auxiliary, do. do. by Mr. Oliver Hale, Gloucester, Ms. Mr. William Dane, by the Rev. Levi Hartshorn, for hea. For the school among the Indian children of our own country, 10 00--20 00 Hanover, N. H. A contribution in the village at Dartmouth College, by Hartford, Con. Young Ladies' Soc. in Mr. Strong's school, for the ed. of children at Bombay, by do. A lady in do. for the mission school at Brainerd, by do. Hartford, Ver. (Dothan.) A contribution, by the Rev. H. Woodward, Hebron, Con. Fem. Benev. Soc. by H. Hudson, Esq. Herkimer Village, N. Y. From several gentlemen, a subscription, by the Rev. L. Parsons, Several ladies, Fem. For. Miss. Soc. by Hitty C. Maynard, Secretary, Killingworth, Con. Mr. William Wellman, for the school at Brainerd, by H. Hudson, Esq. Kingston, Penn. The Hea. Miss. and School Soc. by H. Buckingham, Esq. Luncaster, N. H. Contribution, of which $3 are for the Cherokee mis sion, by the Rev. Joseph Willard, 18 37 Lebanon, N. H. Contribution, by the Rev. H. Woodward, 31 48 Lisle, N. Y. (Broome Co.) Fem. Cent Soo. by Phebe Squire, for missions to the Amer. Indians, Ludlow, Ver. Fem. Cent Soc. by Mary Read, Treas. remitted by Dea. 13 22 Lyme, N. H. Contribution, by the Rev. H. Woodward, 8 50 Madison, N. Y. The following individuals, by the Rev. Levi Parsons, viz. Mansfield, Con. (north par.) Fem. Char. Soc. for the Cherokee mission, Murietta, O. A friend, for the school at Cornwall, by H. Hudson, Esq. Middletown, Con. (Upper Houses.) Young Men's Soc. for ed. heathen Middlesex, Co. Ms. From B. S. the proceeds of an action commenced Middlesex, Co. Con. For. Miss. Soc. by H. Hudson, Esq. 15 50 6 66 62 50---77 33 A young lady, for the support of a child in Ceylon, to be named ELIAS A class of colored people in the Newark Sabbath school, by the same lady, D. W. Randall, Truman Kellogg, Cynthia Risley, Gideon Savage, Daniel Eels, Dolly Wells, Hunting S. Pierce, Thomas Williams, Rev. N. Coe, Samuel Hiccox, William Curtis, Gustavus Kilburn, Jacob Sherrill, Lewis Sherrill, $5 each, Smaller donations from 12 gentlemen, Donations from several ladies, From several little children, A contribution, 1 25 70.00 15.94 20.34 82 6 00 1.00 10 00 20 00 6 47--114 82 New-Lisbon, N. Y. A Female Society, by the Rev. L. Parsons, Rev. Elias Riggs, Norfolk, Con. Mrs. Sarah Battell, A young female in do. for the same object, Norwich, Ver. Contribution by the Rev. H. Woodward, Fem. Mite Society, A friend of missions, Orwell, Ver. The Fem. Cent Soc. by the Rev. T. A. Merrill, Total. 9.90 894 2.00 1.00 1.30 2 00- -20 14 Paris, N. Y. (Union Society,) by the Rev. L. Parsons, from the follow 1 5041 21 Philadelphia. The Juvenile Miss. Soc. in the second Dutch Reformed church, for educating a child among the Cherokees to be called DAVID PARKER, by Miss Whitehead, Mrs. Flintham, by the Rev. Dr. Worcester, 10.00 5 00---15 00 Pittsfield, Ms. The monthly prayer meeting, by the Rev. H. Humphrey, Randolph, Ver. The Fem. Cent Soc. by the Rev. A. Finney, Rocky Hill, Con. A lady, for the school at Brainerd, by H. Hudson, Esq. The Missionary and Tract Society, 36 71 36.00 28 00 Stephen Hubbard $10; Rev. Moses Gillet, $5, Darius Davenport, $3; Timothy Jarvis, $2, Joy Hatheway, $1; George Brown, $1, From several females, $2 50; Wheeler Barnes, $5, An individual, Royalton, Ver. A contribution, by the Rev. H. Woodward, St. Alban's, Ver. A charity box kept by several young ladies, by Hor- St. Johnsbury, Ver. The monthly concert, A friend, $2; William Ferguson, $2, Dr. Palmer, 82; Daniel Owen, $1 12, J. Hubbard, John Haven, Horace Kellogg, H. Newbury, R. Montgomery, Joseph Tenney, Daniel King, Thomas King, A. Townsley, $5; C. M. Clark, $1 25, Uri Beach, $2 56, 4.00 3 12 10.00 8.81 4 87 Total. 30 00 J. Ferguson, 50 cents; several donations, $4 37, An unknown benefactor, a communicant of the Rev. Dr. Kollock's Scituate, Ms. A friend to missions, for the For. Miss. School, Sherburne, NY. From the following persons in the first Congrega tional society, by the Rev. L. Parsons, viz. From Elias Babcock, $55; A charity box, $35 44, Joshua Pratt, $10; Benjamin Rexford, $10, P. and S. Davidson, $5; Ephraim. Whitney, $5, H. Storrs, S5; Enoch Benedict, $5; Salmon Lathrop, 85; H. N. Fargo, $5, E Foster, $5; Z W. Elmore, S6, for the mission to Judea, James Coolidge, Lyman S. Rexford, Samuel H. Williams, E. W. From several ladies, From the second Congregational society, as follows; viz. Isaac Tate, $5; Isaac Foote, jun. $5, 10 00 Lewis Lathrop, $5; Joseph Adams, Joseph Long, Luther 9 00 Abraham Raymond, a friend, L. Hammond, John Foote, Allen 7 00 Mary Talcot, N. B. Mead, G. Hammond, Joseph B. Leonard, 50 cents each, Stephen Leonard, 25 cts.; Donation, $1 09, Joel Rexford, Israel Farrell, 1 each, Simsbury, Con. Thomas Case, by Dea. Geo. Goodrich, remitted by H Hudson, Esq. Several persons in do. by do. Southold, L Isl. From the Rev. Lathrop Thomson, 8 50-1S SO South Reading, Ms. A friend of missions, for the ed, of hea, children in Springfield, N. J. Charitable Soc. for ed. hea. children, by Mrs. Mary 1 34 2.00---51 00 5.00 Stockholm, N.Y. Fem. Soc. for the western mission, by Esther Staples, Treas remitted by the Rev. T. A. Merrill, Ulicu, N. Y By the Rev. L Parsons, from the following sources, viz. D. W. Childs, $5; Amos G. Hull, $5; N. Williams, SS, Merrill & Bastings, $3; E. Vernon, for the miss. to Judea, $3, The Society for Educating Heathen Children, Weathersfield, Con. Fem. For Miss. Soc. by H. Hudson, Esq. 6 00 22 50-300 68 S 34 2.91 4.70 1 22--12 17 Whitesborough, N.Y. By the Rev. L. Parsons, from the following sources, viz. A contribution, Hon. Jonas Platt, $10; Hon. Thomas R. Gold, $10, 22 50 5.00 69 70 Rev. John Frost, $5; T. Sill, 85, J. B. Pease, $5; Mary A. Curtenius, $5, William Eells, $3; Charles Mosely and his family, $3 87, S. Newton Dexter, Joseph Beebe, Louis White, $2 each, Two ladies, $2, Newton Mann, $1 50; Mr. Walcott, $1 50, 7 44 5 00 12 00-107 $1 Windsor, Con. From young ladies, for ed. hea. youth in this country, by Fem. Benev. Soc. by Mrs. S. Ellsworth, for the Cherokee miss by do. 29 30 The residence of the following persons is unknown. Total of Donations received in March, $2,983 94 EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM THE REV. ARD HOYT, TO ROBERT RALSTON, ESQ. OF PHILADELPHIA, DATED BRAINERD, CHEROKEE NATION, JAN. 10, 1819. VERY DEAR AND MUCH RESPECTED FRIEND, YOURS of July 17, and the clothing prepared by some of the benevolent Ladies of your city, arrived on the 8th inst. I shall not attempt to describe my feelings, or the feelings of my family, at the reception of this very seasonable supply. Every article will be of use in our numerous family, and many of the garments were needed the very moment of their arrival, to clothe (if not the naked) those that were nearly so. The tracts will find readers here in this wilderness, and the several reports you so obligingly forwarded have cheered our hearts. We have been particularly delighted and animated by the first report of the Philadelphia Sunday and Adult School Union. The value of the contents of this box was greatly increased by the circumstances under which they were procured and forwarded. If the piety of Dorcas was evinced by the coats and garments which she made to clothe the needy under her eye, can we say less of those benevolent sisters who have done the same for the destitute whom they have never seen? To the precious children of our charge we could and did say, Behold the effect of the religion of Jesus-that religion which we teach and recommend to you and your people. You can scarcely conceive, my dear brother, what a help it is to missionaries among the heathen to receive supplies in this manner-not merely nor chiefly as supplying their temporal wants, relieving them in their bodily labors, which is indeed a great help, chiefly as exemplifying the excellency of our most holy religion. Such conduct commends itself at once to the conscience of the rudest savage, and he is convinced that they who do such things are seeking his best good. Such assistance is also encouraging to us in another respect. The expense of feeding so many children in this wilderness, and clothing such as have not relatives to clothe them, must necessarily be very considerable; and (through the weakness of our faith) we have sometimes been ready to fear that those on whom we depend for funds might think the sum too great to justify the continuance of this school and the establishment of others, according to the wants of this people. But when help comes from such unexpected quarters, our faith and hope are strengthened. Hitherto the Lord has helped us: and we verily believe the time to favor our red brethren has come. The desire to have their children instructed is evidently increasing in this tribe, and we believe also in the neighboring tribes. The children with us make great improvement. We think them some of the finest children in the world. I send you a sample of the writing of one who has been in the school only five weeks, and of another who has been with us but five months. They came from the deep shades of the forests, and neither of them could speak a word of English when they came. VOL. XV. 23 |