File 2: Rowland Hassall papers, 1811-1820, 1860

Mrs [indecipherable] Kate the other sister - on Board the Canada Captain Wa?

[MS 331]

Dear Sirs This comes from the Ship Rose Captain? Broks? and have to inform you that since the departure of the Rev[erend] Samuel Marsden we have [crossed out] sent supplies [indecipherable] both by [Northhampton] that left this Port in March, and also by the Ship Perserverance which sailed from this Port about the 27th instance [crossed out] the [indecipherable] sent in the [indecipherable] [crossed out] the sum of £90 - 13 - 9 appreciable? to my order upon Robert Campbell Esq [crossed out] who was so obliging to advance the cash [crossed out] and has charged the same to the Society’s account - we also sent by the good conveyance about 80 gallons of wine [indecipherable] about [indecipherable] of wine [crossed out] which Mr Campbell was good enough to supply [crossed out] out of his own store at - the wholsale price which is also charged to your account with Tho [indecipherable] [indecipherable] By their Ship Perserverance ^ [indecipherable] in Mr Campbell’s cause] we have goods to the amount of £30 = 12-6 which was paid for as above - and by the said conveyance [indecipherable] I sent out of this stores 2 bolts of canvas 18lbs? of Twine 1 chest of Hyson Tea 2 bags of Rice about [indecipherable] lbs sugar 1 Bag coffee 2 casks of flour and one cask of Earthen ware which was likewisecharged [crossed out] all to the Societys account - There are [crossed out] other advances [crossed out] [crossed out] by [indecipherable] conveyance that I have no knowledge of as I was not at Sydney on the day the Ship sailed - Mr Elder? " 7 - 1 - do -do " 9 - 2 - do - do [indecipherable]

made aknol [acknowledgement?] to the colony and as inbound Ship [indecipherable] [indecipherable] - (a Daughters of [indecipherable] settlers in [indecipherable] colony) and [crossed out] [indecipherable] with his wife to [indecipherable] in the Perserverance what cash [pasted over] and [indecipherable] by the then high [indecipherable] & secondly on the Campbell of every [indecipherable] in this colony and had no [indecipherable] [indecipherable] [indecipherable] of [indecipherable] [indecipherable] [indecipherable] [indecipherable] [crossed out] him draw any information? [crossed out] for £180 upon the [indecipherable] in favor of Robert Campbell [indecipherable] which should you write honor - [indecipherable] is truefully? in play in this Colony and I have no [indecipherable] [indecipherable] Blessed in his labor , as he [indecipherable] he has written to you by this country? such I need lay no name? - if [crossed out] ^ no particular ^ intelligence from [indecipherable] best find that Island is in pace, then the Bretheran [indecipherable] and in [indecipherable] of health and [indecipherable] to start the event of the [indecipherable] of the Revd [Reverend] S Marsden to [crossed out] for [indecipherable] in these times - The Reverend [indecipherable] of this Colony is not very pleasant to a reflecting mind - [crossed out] [crossed out] in January [indecipherable] [crossed out] took place when in His Excellency [indecipherable] was deposed by the Military [indecipherable] under an arrest to this day [indecipherable] The Majority of the [indecipherable] [indecipherable] [crossed out] [indecipherable] and those of them [indecipherable]

made a [indecipherable] to the colony and as i married wife Mary [indecipherable] (a daughter of respectable settlers in that colony) and [crossed out] [indecipherable] with his wife to [indecipherable] in the Perserverance what cash he has [indecipherable] on the Campbell I am not requested with as I had no [indecipherable] [indecipherable] him - [crossed out] agreeable to the [indecipherable] instead have [indecipherable] [crossed out] [indecipherable] [indecipherable] [crossed out] for £180 upon the [indecipherable] in favor of Robert Campbell [indecipherable] [indecipherable] you will honor - [indecipherable] is hopefully [indecipherable] in this colony and I have no [indecipherable] blessed in his labour, as he [indecipherable] he has written to you by this [indecipherable] I need say no more - if [indecipherable] particular ^ [indecipherable] [indecipherable] [celebrate?] but find this island is in [indecipherable],then the Bretheran [indecipherable] ^ all in [affordable?] of health and [indecipherable] to [indecipherable] the events of the [indecipherable] of the Rev [Reverend] S Marsden to [crossed out] [indecipherable] in these [indecipherable] The present state of this colony is not very pleasent to a reflecting mind [crossed out] [crossed out] in [indecipherable] [indecipherable] took place where in His Excellency [indecipherable] Bligh was desposed by the Military [indecipherable] under an [indecipherable] to this day - [indecipherable] [crossed out] of the [indecipherable] [indecipherable] and those of them [indecipherable]

[MS 334]