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Scervant Jones papers
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1834-1854
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Williamsburg Oct<sup>o</sup> 17. 1849.
<p>My dear Sir.</p>
<p>It was not until last Night<br />that I resumed home from the Association<br />at Beulah where we had the most harmonious<br />and delightful Session of the body which<br />it was ever my good fortune to witness.<br />I there saw many of the Richmond Brethren<br />and inquired of them concerning the<br />Appropriation for a Missionary for<br />Gloucester, and just as I told you when<br />we were together so I found, that the<br />Appropriation had been made, and am<br />authorized to say to you that even<br />beyond the sum voted /$250/ the Board<br />is both ready and willing to go if<br />Necessity require. I am delighted at<br />this, tho' it is only what I told you<br />before, and the more so, as now, your<br />little band may safely go ahead, and<br />engage the Services of our good Brother Huntingdon<br />without incurring the least personal Risk. I<br />was farther informed that the Secretary of<br />the board had written to the effect above<br />stated, but lest it may not have been<br />rec<sup>d</sup> I hasten to give you the intelligence.<br />There was, infact, no unwillingness to<br />make the Appropriation for Gloucester -<br />the seeming delay was occasiond by a failure</p>
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<p>on the part of some of the Members of the<br />board to form a Session at an earlier day.</p>
<p>On my return home, I found an<br />Invitiation (a very kind one indeed,) to attend<br />the Meeting at Pocoson on the 27<sup>th</sup> ins<sup>t</sup> -<br />I wish, of course, to comply, but am not<br />positively certain that it will be in<br />my power so to do : and if I should, I am<br />in doubt about troubling you to take<br />me up, as I can go by some other rout,<br />and so not take you away from your business.</p>
<p>My new church, Mount Calvary, was<br />received into the Association. In my<br />Absence, one of my Members has died,<br />the same whose Marriage you attended<br />across the Creek some years ago, when<br />we had that hard fight with the<br />Ice. She was a good Sister and<br />most joyfully yielded up her Spirit<br />into the hands of her blessed Lord.</p>
<p>Brother and Sister Allen have just<br />written to me to go to Caroline to Preach<br />the Funeral of their dear little boy.<br />I must do it, of course - thus you<br />see how it is with me 3 churches<br />on hand and Friends far and near<br />claiming my Aid and Sympathy.</p>
<p>Among the Letters on my Desk</p>
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<p>at my return was one from a Stranger<br />in Amhert whom I know not, tho' he says he knew<br />me when he was young, statign that there<br />is much excitement his way about<br />the Brethren joining the [M]aons and<br />asking my Opinion as [h]e understands<br />that I am a Mason. Now here is, indeed,<br />a delicate Subject for the Pen - I must<br />write (if at all) about an Unwritten<br />Science, and to a Brother, evidently not a<br />little biased against Secret Societies.<br />Well, I shall do it, and will keep a<br />Copy and let you see it.</p>
<p>I was away 11 days and know<br />not the Condition of things in<br />my borders as I have not yet<br />been in the street. In my absence,<br />the Lord graciously preserved my<br />Family for which, I trust, I am<br />truly, tho not sufficiently, Thankful.</p>
<p>I have not heard a Word from<br />you all since I left Gloucester and<br />know not whether the Wheat which<br />I sent you was safely received.</p>
<p>With kindest love to all<br />I am, as ever,<br />Yrs in the best of bonds<br />S Jones</p>
<p>some 15 Students are now at College.</p>
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<p>Cap<sup>t</sup>. T. B. Montague<br />Mail Gloucester C House</p>
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Scervant Jones letter to Thomas B. Montague, 1849 October 17
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