FL14425358

[MS 261[

Kissing Point August 9th 1820

Dear Sir
Being persuiaded that a few
lines from an old acquaintance would be accepta
-ble to you, who are so many Thousand Miles off:
Therefore I do myself the pleasure of
imbracing this favourable opportunity of writing you
these few lines.
Throu providence I am residing at Kissing Point
with my Father, and Sister Elizabeth: they are both
well: This place as been much improved since you
saw it last: we have erected a stone house much larger
than the old one.
In the year 1818 a Genteman and his
Family was sent out from England by the Missionary
Society to go to Taheiti to form a sugar plantation:
Shortly after this Gentleman arrived at this
Collonny he went with his family to reside at your
Fathers house at Parramatta: Father and I
being there we became acquainted with him soon
afterwards it proposed for me to go to Taheiti and lern
the art of sugar Boilling and Coffee Manufacture
having these things in view I concented to go thinking
it would not only be for my benifit but also for the
good of the Mission: and knowing by Mr Gyles's
account that it would be of little use for him to
attempt to carry on the Business to a great extent by himself.
It was also thought if there could be two or three
Young Men found to go to Taheiti they might be
of great use to the Mission in carring the Business
on to a greater extent: but it was not so to be for
there was none went but I.
We left the Collonny in the end of May