Docketed, with additional notes on the address panel.
With trace of a seal.
Addressed to "The Revd. Dr. Hind / Secretary to the Society for the propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts / St. Ann's Westminster."
Part of a 12-volume collection of Autographs and Manuscripts of Bishops of The Protestant Episcopal Church (MA 364-375). The arrangement of the collection is by Bishops in the order of their consecration and chronological within their portion of the collection. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Explaining that he kept his church open "when the colonies ... declared themselves independent" but omitted the prayers for the King and royal family; reporting how many children he baptized and couples he married since his last letter of March 25, 1776; giving details of an excursion to "the province of New Hampshire" to preach and baptize children there; asking him to write back by the bearer of this letter, Capt. Cordis.