Hassall family papers, 1793-2000

Dearest Parents Stood no time to [indecipherable] your minds appeared [indecipherable] upon the Just feel relieved [indecipherable] is [indecipherable] not ask you [indecipherable] they [indecipherable] be after [indecipherable] in Him who charge concerning [one?] [indecipherable] every [indecipherable] I shall not fail to Let not my [Dear Parents?] should their be [indecipherable] me - J. [indecipherable] The Billy with [indecipherable] your letter

Sydney New South Wales 24th Dec [December] [indecipherable] at Par [Parramatta] [indecipherable] At thirty days after sight please pay this [indecipherable]

Deputy Commissary Generals Office Sydney New South Wales 24th Decr 1816 No. 19 £ 45.0.0 [indecipherable] Exchange at Par At Thirty days after sight please pay this my [indecipherable] of Exchange First and third not paid to the Order of W. Rowland Hapsall the sum of Forty Five Pounds Sterling being an Account of Salary due to him as Superintendant of Government Stock in this Colony at the rate £100.0.0 pr [per] Annum from 25th June 1816 to 24th Decr 1816 and referred to in my Letter of this date Jan [indecipherable] Per Cent Income Tax deducted To H.J. Addington Esq.) Appd Signed/ D. Allan Agent for the Colony) Signed/L. Macquarie D. C. Genl of New South Wales /[indecipherable] R Hassell Treasury Chambers The above is a true copy of an original Bill [indecipherable] [indecipherable] same tenor and date and examined [indecipherable] by us this 5th day of April 1817 [indecipherable] April 1817

Parramatta TH Signed R Hassall No 19 £45.0,0 [indecipherable] Exchange at Par Sydney At Thirty days after sight please pay [indecipherable] not paid to to the [order?] of Mr. Rowland Hassell Sterling being on Account of Salary due to [indecipherable] in this Colony at the rate of £100,0,0 pr [indecipherable] 24th Dec [December] 1816 and referred to in my letter of this

To H. J. Addington Esqr. Agent for the Colony of New South Wales

Appd Signed L. Macquarie [indecipherable] The above is a true copy

Signed R. Hassall No 19 Deputy Commissary Generals Office £45/0/0 Stg Exchange at Par Sydney New South Wales 24th Decr 1816 At thirty days after sight please pay this my Third of Exchange First and Second not paid to the [indecipherable} of Mr. Rowland Hassall the sum of Forty Five Pounds Sterling being on Account of Salary due to him as Superintendent of Government Stock in this Colony at the rate of £100/0/0 P Annum from 25th June 1815 to 24th Decr 1816 and reference to in my letter of this Date Jan 7 [indecipherable] Income Tax as due. /Signed/D. Allen D. C. Gent. Appd. /Signed/L. Macquarie/ [Indecipherable] / R Hassall The above is a true copy of an original [Indecipherable] [Indecipherable] [Indecipherable] [Indecipherable] tenor and date an examined by us this 5th day of April 1817 To H. J. Addington Esq.} Agent for the Colony of New Wales} Treasury Chambers}

[indecipherable] R. Hassall

[indecipherable] for Liverpool [indecipherable] J. Hassall 20th [indecipherable] [indecipherable] 5th May [indecipherable] Mr Cowper?.......3 Mr L?................3 J O?...................3 Miss R?.............3 to keep a Book of Fines for late attendance of [indecipherable] meetings and in the event of his absence [indecipherable] place in every month be appointed for the [indecipherable] of the [indecipherable] Prayer Meeting - [indecipherable] [indecipherable] £2107 1/2 Mr Saml [Samuel] Hassall S. O. Hassall [underlined] Secretary and Treasurer [underlined] Sydney [indecipherable] v. [indecipherable] [indecipherable] [indecipherable] [indecipherable] £25 [indecipherable] [indecipherable] Brothers?

[A?] Sept 23 1817

Dear Sir

It will doubtless afford you pleasure to hear that we have safely reached the fields of our labour which you would hear by the letters sent by the Queen Charlotte. The King George is now on the point of sailing, I embrace the opportunity thus afforded of addressing a line or two to you. When on the eve of sailing from the Colony I left with Thomas a promissory note for £15 sterling payable 9 months after date. I am very sorry that it has not been in my power to procure any pork to send or I should have been happy to have fulfilled my promise. if I be able to send a little pork with Harriet, to pay her her wages, it will be as much as I shall be able to do, I am under the necessity therefore of presuming on your good nature to beg you to allow me a little longer [?d] it for the money, which I shall be happy to return so soon as it is in 

my power. Since we have been here we have been busily engaged in putting up a house for the Press, Printing an edition of the Tahitian Spelling book of 3000 Copies & the Tahitian [indecipherable] 2000 with 1100 extra Scripture copies (a copy of which I beg your acceptance) I find the labour of the Printing very debilitating in this climate particularly as our food is chiefly vegetables but we rejoice in being permitted to offer our selves in the service of our Divine Master, may we not count our lives dear unto [indecipherable] so that we may but finish our course with Joy. Some hundreds of the Natives have already learned the spelling book through since it was printed and distributed among them so that we have the greatest encouragement to go on in our work however weak & feeble we may find our selves in it. Our flour is nearly exhausted and sugar grows short. (as we divided half our tea sugar & our wine among the Brethren on our arrival). we await several articles from the colony, but as our [indecipherable]

  [MS  167 ]

Captain Wilks Harbour Tahiti October 14 1817

Dear Friend Hassall

     It is with difficulty that I can find time to write a few lines to you having much to write and a great deal to do.  But I can not wholly neglect my old friends and wherein I appear to do so I must crave pardon.  I have received an affectionate letter from dear Thomas dated at Batavia.  Dear soul he has been [indecipherable] about sadly  I hope he will learn much wisdom from these afflictive dispensations and derive much spiritual profit from them.  It is pleasing to hear that kind and pious office in time of youth are gratefully remembered and gives one more satisfaction than a present of gold & silver.      We have our hands full of work; being providentially settled almost alone among the natives.  We need familiar providence mixed with holy zeal and courage to enable us to manage well among this people.  The King is the greatest obstacle in the way at present though in some repects he is satisfied he will [indecipherable] himself to form a Missionary Society to collect property for the Society [indecipherable] on a correspondence etc but he will not leave off his sinful habits, nor will he take a step in the way of civilisation and his conduct and influence keeps the people back.

To his blessing I command you  Dr Brother & Mrs Hassall & all the family. Remember us kindly to all Parramatta friends I remain with my dear wife kind love to you Mrs H & the family Your bro & servt in Christ Jesus Wm Pascoe Crook