SPG Archives C/CAN/NFL/107

BONAVISTA PETITION 1791

To His Grace The Right Reverend Father in God, John (by Divine Permission) Lord Archbishop 
of Canterbury, Primate of All England, and President of The Society for Propagating 
the Gospel in Foreign Parts.

The humble petition of the Inhabitants of Bonavista.

Sheweth--

That there are at this time in the harbour of Bonavista upwards of three hundred poor 
children- that the parents of these children have themselves been bred on the most 
gross ignorance, and are not only wholly incapable of conveying instructions to their 
offspring, but from their extreme poverty are destitute of the means of procuring for 
themselves so great a blessing.

Thus yearly, are multiplied, numbers who have as little sense of the ends for which 
providence as placed them in this world as the untutored savages of the woods. Deprived 
wholly of the assistance of a Missionary whose precepts and example might excite to 
piety and a moral life, the best cement of society; this poor people are also destitute 
of the most common means of attaining to that small degree of cultivation which the lowest 
orders possess in most civilized nations. To be able to read is among the first blessings, 
since it furnishes the medium of improving the mind, and learning our duty to God and our 
neighbours. The end Your Grace's petitioners hope for in this application, is to obtain a 
small salary for a Schoolmaster, to enable him to instruct gratis, poor children in reading 
and writing. There is at present here a person (George Bemister) who has been for some time 
past employed in that capacity; but those who are in a situation to pay him for this 
attendance are so few, that the emoluments arising from his school will not furnish the 
most ordinary means of support. Your Grace's petitioners therefore humbly request that 
you will take into consideration the unhappy circumstances of the poor children of this 
place, and in charity grant a small annual gratuity to a Schoolmaster, for the purpose 
of instructing them in reading and writing gratis. And may the blessings and prayers of 
those who may happily benefit from Your Grace's  benevolence add to that peace and 
serenity of mind which can only result from doing good and which Your Grace's petitioners 
wish you may to the latest period of life enjoy.

 
John        Bland JP
Gerrard     Ford JP?
William     Brown JP
John        Rolles
Giles       Hosier
John        Mayne
Joseph      Pretten?
Wright      William Ward
John        Butler/ Cutler?
William     Coles
Edw?        Pudner
Stephen     Abbott
Richard     Rider
Joseph      Abbott
Stephen     Lander
James       Skeffington
J           G-thing/ Gosling?
Samson      Mifflen
Tim         Phillips
Stephen     Hooper
Thomas      Coombes
Robert X    Dugdale
John        Collins
George      March
William X   Pledwell
Moses X     Keel
Henry X     Edmonds
Hugh X      Abbott
John        Lander
William X   Hicks
James       Lovey
William X   Baker

Bonavista Petitioners Nov 11, 1791 (rearranged in alphabetical order):

Abbott      Stephen
Abbott      Joseph
Abbott X    Hugh
Baker X     William
Bland       John JP
Brown       William JP
Butler/     Cutler  John
Coles       William
Coombs      Thomas
Collins     John
 
Dugdale X   Robert
Edmonds X   Henry
Ford        Gerrard JP
Goslin?     J.
Hosier      Giles
Hooper      Stephen
Hicks X     William
Keel        Moses
Lander      Stephen
Lander      John
Lovey       James
Mayne       John
Mifflen     Samson
March       George
Pudner      Edward
Phillips    Timothy
Pledwell X  William
Pretten?    Joseph
Rolles      John
Rider       Richard
Skeffington James
Wright      William Ward

Bonavista 11 Nov 1791.

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UNITED SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL
ARCHIVES C/CAN/NFL: 2. DATE OCT 31, 1792
PRESENTED BEFORE THE COMMITTEE JANUARY 1793

This is Akerman's letter which accompanied this 1792 petition from the inhabitants of Bonavista.

TO REV. DR. MORICE? GOWER? STREET BEDFORD SQUARE LONDON

Dear Sir.

 
Whereas the inhabitants of this Town and District has with great satisfaction beheld my 
laudable exertions in doing the duty of the Church at Bonavista and supporting the Protestant 
Religion from a total decay for these nine years past and that their children have been 
baptised in the foundings? of Christ and taught the Knowledge and fear of God.--  They 
have thought it prudent to petition to His Lordship and the other members of the Society 
in granting me a small salary.-- I humbly request Your Reverance's kind aid and assistance 
with His Lordship and the other good members of the Society in granting their request-- and 
am, Reverend Sir, your most 
obliging and most humble servant.

Abraham Akerman


BONAVISTA PETITIONERS OCT 31, 1792
USPG ARCHIVES C/CAN/NFL:2

To the Right Reverend Father in God John ( by Divine Commission ) Lord Archbishop of 
Canterbury, Primate of all England and President of the Society for Propagating the 
Gospel in Foreign Parts.

The humble petition of the inhabitants of Bonavista

Sheweth:

That the town of Bonavista, the Capital of this District, has been many years without 
a Missionary; and that your Lordship's Petitioners beheld with concern the declining 
state of the Protestant Religion and the rapid increase of Popery, for want of a 
person to instruct the ignorant, and to m----- unto the minds of the unenlightened, a 
knowledge of our? Religion and the Duties of Christianity, until Mr. Akerman, voluntarily, 
and without Reward or Emolument whatever, undertook to do the duty of the Church which he 
has constantly served these nine years, to the entire satisfaction of the inhabitants of 
this Town and District-- That our children may be brought up in the knowledge and fear of 
God. We, your petitioners, ---- humbly beg the sanction of your Lordship and the assistance 
of the Society, in granting to Mr. Abraham Akerman a small salary, to enable him the better 
to carry out his present laudable undertaking. Your petitioners beg leave to inform your 
Lordship that Mr. Abraham Akerman has been married for many years and has a wife and four 
children now living in Bonavista. In consideration of which and of his zeal and attachment 
to the Protestant Religion, we are induced to implore the aid of the Society : humbly 
hoping that your Lordship and the Society will take his present situation into your 
consideration and your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray.

Bonavista, October 31, 1792.


Petitioners names rearranged in alphabetical order:

Abbott X         Hugh
Abbott           James
Abbott           John,Sen.
Abbott           John,Jun.
 
Abbott           Stephen
Brown            William, ( J.P. )
Baker X          Willaim
Bass             Thomas
Batt X           Joseph
Bemister         John
Bright X         Francis
Brushet          George
Budden           Joseph
Burton           John
Burton           Stephen
Burton           William
Coles            William
Collins X        John
Cooney           John
Clouter X        Henry
Crocker X        George
Cross            Robert
Cummens? X       John
Curdle           James
Davis            Benjaim?
Drodge           John
Dunden? X        Moses
Dyke X           Richard
Edmonds          Henry
Etsell X         William
Ford             Gerrard (J.P.)
Fielden          William, Sen.
Fielden          William, Jun.
Fisher           John
Fling/FlinnX     John
Fling/FlinnX     Thomas
Gellett X        John
Gillingham       George
Goff             George
Gosling          Edward
Gould            Luke
Green            Humber
Habgood          James
Hailey X         John      (Haley)
Hayward          Benjamin
Hayward X        John
Hayward          Thomas
Hayward?         William?
Hardy            John
 
Heasey           Thomas
Hix(Hicks) X     James
Hix(Hicks) X     Robert
Hix(Hicks) X     Thomas
Hix(Hicks)       William
Hillear(ier)     John
Hobbs X          Robert
Hooper           Stephen
Ingram X         Benjamin
Lander           John
Lander           Stephen, Sen.
Lander           Stephen, Jun.
Little X         Giles
Lovey            James
Lush X           Edward
Lush X           William
March            George
Mashfield        Cornelius    (Marshfield)
Mifflen          Samson
Mifflen          Soloman
Miles            Charles
Miles            William
Moulam           James        (Mouland)
Oldford X        George
Oldford          William
Pardy            John
Pardy            William
Parell X         William
Peckham          John
Phevan           Robert
Philpot          John
Pladwell         William
Pollett          Thomas?
Porter           William
Pottle           Martin
Powell           Henry
Powell           Richard
Pudner           Edward
Rolles           John
Ryder            Richard
Saint            Charles
Seaward          John
Shearing         Richard
Shearing         Samuel
Shearing         Stephen
 
Short            Isaac
Singleton        Thomas
Skeffington      James
Stagg X          Edward
Steeds X         William
Street           John
Somerstone?X     Richard
Taylor           William
Tilly(Telley)    John X
Tilly X          Richard
Way              Philip
Way X            William
Wheller          John
Wheller          William
White            Edward
White            George
?????            Robert

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SLA  PG 191

Charles Saint, of Wimborne Minster, originally went to Bonavista as a parish apprentice 
to Thomas Bass, but by 1806 was an owner occupier of a fishing room. Some three decades 
later, he was appointed guardian to a daughter of James Oakley "native of Wimborne 
Minster, now of Bonavista, Island of Newfoundland"

[TC Note - Pretty certain this was a Charles Saint  junior]

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Obtained from the Anglican Church Archives, Toronto
DATE NOV 17, 1792
Bonavista 17th Nov 1792

Reverend Sir,

I learn from the list published by the Society for the Propagation of Christian 
Knowledge that they have been pleased to appoint me Schoolmaster at this place 
with a salary of fifteen pounds a year. Altho' I have not been officially informed 
of this appointment, I think it my duty to return my thanks to the Society for thier 
favor; And to beg you will be pleased to assure them of my endeavours to deserve their 
protection. I am with very great respect,

Reverend Sir,
 
Your much obliged,
and Obedient servant.
George Bemister.

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Obtained from the Anglican Church Archives, Toronto
DATE NOV 20, 1792
Bonavista 20th Nov 1792

Reverend Sir.

Last year I had the honor to enclose to you a petition from the principal inhabitants 
and others of this place to the Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge 
in Foreign Parts, praying they would grant a small salary to a schoolmaster which 
we understand has been conferred on the person who did then, and still continues in 
that capacity. I am now? to return? our sincere acknowledgement for the attention 
which the Society has been pleased to show to our request, and to assure them that 
their bounty, as far as depends on us, shall not be improperly applied.

Encouraged by the success of that petition I have learnt that a second has lately 
been (------) thru this settlement, which has for its object to obtain a salary for 
one Abraham Akerman for officiating as minister , or catechist. Altho I am the Chief 
Magistrate of this District, no application for very obvious reasons, has been made 
for my concurrence, or for that of the more respectable part of the inhabitants, 
which to give the measure a fair appearance, ought certainly to have been done. In 
fact, this business seems to have been managed with some (-----) for it is only 
written a few days that I came to the knowledge of it.

 
When Bonavista in respect to the community was at a very low (----) Abraham Akerman 
who then was, and still is, an inferior servant in the fishery, read the service from 
the Common Prayer Book in the best manner he could, and at the festival of Christmas, 
sang carols about the neighbourhood, from which performances, if I am not greatly 
misinformed, he now continues to draw a dear emolument of thirty pounds a year 
exclusive of his wages as a servant. The man may be drawing enough in the useful, 
but humble task where providence has placed him but the nature of things has not left 
it in his power to merit attention beyond it. The office of catechist made by the 
appointment of your Society, must, presuppose some (-----) at least. The man for 
whom this appointment is entrusted cannot, therefore, be recommended as a fit person. 
The habits of life, as may be naturally supposed from this situation, are too abject 
to command respect, and he is besides, so grossly illiterate as not to be able to 
read intelligibly. Can a man so unfortunately unmastered as to the acquirement of 
knowledge be possibly thought competent to discharge the trust which the petition 
aims to obtain for him? It might be asked (if his performances can be called 
officiating ) why is he suffered to officiate at all?  The truth is no one else as 
yet offered, and the people of better mind can find no inducement to attend his 
performances, it is thought more proper to have some show of religion than none at 
all nonetheless  silently to suffer this ignorant, low bred man to be placed in a 
permanent situation with a salary, to which assuredly, he can have no pretensions, 
would be to connive at abuse and to preclude the hope of having a regular clergyman 
settled among us. It would be, in fact, to consent that the receivers of cultivated 
talents be prostituted to gross ignorance- It would be to suffer a benevolent 
institution to be duped into an appointment which. instead of promoting, would defeat 
the very act proposed to be attained by it. I cannot, therefore, think that I should 
discharge my public trust with fidelity, were I knowingly to allow this imposition 
to pass on the Society, who will now be better able to inform themselves as to the 
merits of Akerman's petition.

As Bonavista as lately much increased in respectability and population, the 
necessity of a public instructor in the religious and moral duties of life, becomes 
every year more evident and shall hope  that another season will not pass on without 
some proposal for effecting so desirable an end.

I am, with great respect Reverend Sir, Your faithful Humble servant John Bland

To Pastor? Morice?

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UNITED SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL
ARCHIVES C/CAN/NFL: 2. DATE OCT 23, 1793
PRESENTED BEFORE THE COMMITTEE JANUARY 1794

To The Reverend William Morice DD.
Gower Street.
Bedford Square.
London.

Postage paid at Poole.
No 3 from Mr. George Bemister- John? Bonavista (TC Note -George of John maybe?). 23 Oct 1793.

Reverend Sir.

 
The Society's printed list, last yeat inform'd me, that I was appointed Schoolmaster 
for this place with a salary of ,15 annually, commencing the 17th Febr. 1792. I have 
taken the liberty to give a short detail of my proceedings in that capacity; since my 
residence of three years in this place - I have had constantly attending my School 
upwards of forty children, but through their parent's indigence, I could not procure 
payment for half of them; I was obliged therefore to resolve on quitting the harbour. 
-After communication my intentions to the Inhabitants of the necessity I laid under of 
removing; they judged it proper to petition the Society's assistance, which thank God 
has found the desired effect. - I am teaching gratis, twenty children, but the poor 
things are quite destitute of books. - I have taken the liberty to draw on the Society's 
Treasurer (Calvert Clapham, Esq.) for twenty two pounds ten shillings, in favor of 
Mr. Jame Bayley of Poole;- being one year and a half salary, due unto me from the 
17th February 1792.

It will ever be my earnest endeavour to retain (by a ----- application to my business) 
the protection of the Society.

I am Reverend Sir.
most dutifully. Your
much obliged and very Humble Servant.
George Bemister.
Bonavista Oct 25, 1793.


We do hereby certify that George Bemister has performed the duty of the Schoolmaster 
in Bonavista, Newfoundland from the 17th February 1792 to the date hereof; During 
which time he has paid a proper attention to the Duties of his Office, and has had 
under his tuition near fifty children from three years old to fifteen, of whom he 
has taught gratis, upwards of twenty- their parents not being in circumstances to 
pay for instructions.

J. Bland, J Peace.
G Ford, J Peace.

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UNITED SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL
ARCHIVES C/CAN/NFL: DATE NOV 13, 1793
PRESENTED BEFORE THE COMMITTEE FEBRUARY 1794

Bonavista 13 Nov 1793.

Reverend Sir.

 
It is with much satisfaction that I enclose to you a petition from the principal 
inhabitants of this place praying for a missionary to reside among them.

[NOTE- I cannot decipher the balance of this letter by John Bland-  
(what a terrible writer) T. Cole].

Petition Nov 5, 1793:

To His Grace the most Reverend John Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and the --- of 
the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.

The humble petition of the principal inhabitants of Bonavista. 

Sheweth:

That upwards of forty years have elapsed since a minister of the gospel resided 
among them and during that period the Inhabitants have unhappily been deprived, 
not only of the blessing of a public administration of the rites of the Christian 
religion, but of spiritual assistance in that awful moment when worldly 
consideration are no longer of avail. The increase of population within the 
aforesaid period is a circumstance -- under the absence of an --- missionary 
subject of particular regret. It has been recently ascertained that no? less than 
five hundred children underage? are numbered in Bonavista to say nothing of its 
dependencies. The native inhabitants, as of necessity they must be, are too 
generally to be reckoned among the worst order of society; and as they have not 
the same advantages of moral instructions as that class in the mother country, 
their offspring are bred in a more lamentable ignorance of the great concerns 
of religion.

Your petitioners are deeply impressed with a just sense of their own situation- 
of what they owe to God, to themsekves and their children, and they believe that 
it is the pure practice of religion alone that can insure to them the best 
enjoyment of the blessings allotted to mortality. But while they solicit for 
themselves the benevolence  of your charitable institution, they are not unmindful 
of an obligation incumbent upon them. They are sensible that a missionary who 
devotes his time solely to the laborious duties of his office, can have nothing 
to spare from the customary bounty of your society, and they have not been 
wanting in the estimation of their own means to continue to his support so as to 
place him above resorting to employment which they conceive ought not to be 
blended with his sacred function.

 
Your petitioners are sensible  to the intention of your society in sending 
ministers into remote parts, is to, promote the saving knowledge of the Gospel 
and consequently render mankind happy: but they cannot help observing that precept 
must fail where example is wanting. Rather would they have to remain bereft? of 
the blessing they solicit- rather would they see the dark cloud of ignorance 
continue to hover over them, than the pious intention of your society defeated 
in their regard.

Your petitioners are desirous to have established among them a truly christian 
minister- one whose life would be an example of the doctrine he taught: and on 
their part they promise to adopt such additional means for his support as may 
reasonably relieve his mind from the common solicitude of this life and -- him 
to attend only to the concern of a better --.

And your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray.


1793 Petitioners in Bonavista to USPG Nov 5, 1793:

Bland           J.      JP
Ford            G.      JP
Hosier          Giles
Mifflen         Solomon
Pudner          Edward
Mayne           John
Rolles          John
Stephens?       Thomas
Phillips        Timothy
Lovey           James
Pearce          Andrew
Abbott          Stephen
Pladwell        William
Skeffington     James
Lander          John
Reader          Richard
Hicks           Thomas
Bass            Thomas
Brown           William
Bemister        George
Hooper          Stephen
Brown           Mary
Dugdale         Robert
Cole            William
Baker           William
Stephens?       Thomas

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October 20, 1994- from Lloyd Brown, Bonavista Petition dated 08 Oct 1795 
at the Wesleyan Methodist Society (London) Archives 1791-1886 H-2705:
 
[TC Note- This is the Pro Smith Petition, which I have referred to earlier as the 
Anti Akerman Petition/ There is also a letter -at The Anglican Archives- by George 
Welch recommending Smith].

To His Grace The Right Reverend Father in God, John by Divine Permission Lord 
Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England, and President of The Society 
for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts.

The humble petition of the principal Inhabitants of Bonavista.

Sheweth--

That two years ago your Grace's Petitioners signed and sent to England a Petition 
setting forth their desire to have a Missionary established among them, to which 
an answer has not yet been received. Since that period your Grace's Petitioners 
have been happily visited by a person who came to this country under the protection 
of a religious Society in England. Your Grace's Petitioners have during parts of 
two last summers witnessed the force and efficacy of this Minister's labors and 
Disinterested Endeavours to promote the Good of Souls. And convinced as your Grace's 
Petitioners are that the Inhabitants of this place have profited much from the Zeal 
and Pious example of the Rev. George Smith, they beg leave to Recommend him to Your 
Grace's Notice as a Proper Person to be appointed Missionary of Bonavista. And your 
Grace's Petitioners, as in Duty bound, will ever beg.

J           BLAND
GILES       HOSIER
G           FORD
WM          COLE
WM          PORTER
JAS         SKEFFINGTON
JOHN        ROLLS
THOMAS      BASS
CHARLES     SAINT
JOHN        and
TIMOTHY     PHILLIPS
JAMES       ALLWOOD
JOHN        WARREN
JAMES       MOULAND
WILLIAM     HIX
HUGH        ABBOTT
THOMAS      ABBOTT?
STEP        ABBOTT SEN
CHARLES     FISHER
STEPHEN     ABBOTT
 
STEPHEN     LANDER
STEPHEN     LANDER JUN
WM          SANDER
JOHN        ABBOTT SEN
RICH        PINDER
JOHN        HIX
THOMAS      HIX
ROBERT      HICKS?
M           HICKS?
RICHARD     MARSH SEN--- [TC NOTE MESH??]
STEP        HOOPER
JOHN        MAYNE
GEO         BEAMISTER
WM          BROWN
ROBT        DUDGALE--- [TC NOTE DUGDALE]

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Bonavista, Newfoundland
8th October 1795

Reverend,

The? desires by the inhabitants of Bonavista to transit to you the Enclosed 
Petition. If it would be necessary on my part to say any thing to enforce the 
propriety of granting its prayer, --- --- the people here are much attached 
to the Minister whom they recommend. I believe that upon a former occassion 
--- --- to you that the bulk of the inhabitants of this District are grossly 
ignorant and if we consider their Relations, Situation the neccessity of some 
effort to check the progress of Vice and ------- will appear the greater. The
Minister recommended in the Enclosed Petition is in my Opinion earnestly- 
calculated to promote a Reform in the People of Bonavista, of great simplicity 
of manners and unremitting in his labors. He is so far far from seeking to 
make any advantage of his labors which is too general and ---- charge that 
he --- shares the ------ ---- ----??. His Disposition will speak more forcibly 
to the heart than eloquence and learning for we all know that it is Example 
alone that can influence the -- conduct --- ---? in a rude and uncultured state.

I will not offer any further Observations, but I will hope the Petitioners 
may be gratified in their wish.

--- Great Respect
Reverend Sir
Your most Obedient Humble
Serv.
 
John Bland

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From The Church of England Archives C/CAN/NFL3 425:

Dated 22 Dec 1795:

Re Mr. Smith
Bona Vista
Newfoundland
1795

To his grace the archbishop of Canterbury.

May it please your grace.

About two years ago a Merchant at Harbour Grace in Newfoundland, wrote to one 
of his Friends at Poole, expressing the desire of himself and others, that a 
Missionary might be sent to them, who could read prayers, preach and bury the 
dead, as they were in the greatest distress in these respects, and had made 
application to the higher powers without success.

Some of the Merchants of Poole, who were will acquainted with Mr. George Smith, 
the Bearer of this letter, who was then at Poole, earnestly desired him to go 
over to Newfoundland on this merciful earrand. He accordingly complied; and has 
officiated at Harbour Grace and Carbonear, with very great profit to the people. 
During his residence in those parts, Mr. Thistle, the chief Churchwarden at 
Harbour Grace, opened the Church to him, there being no regular clergyman of 
the Established Church in those parts: and he continued to officiate there, 
almost till the arrival of Mr. Jennet? [TC Note- This was Rev. George Charles 
Jenner, nephew of Dr. Jenner], the Missionary lately appointed by your Grace 
and the other Honourable Members of the Society for the propagation of the 
gospel in foreign parts.

 
Some time before the arrrival of Mr. Jennet [TC note - Jenner] in Harbour 
Grace, Mr. Smith made a visit to Bonavista, one of the most northern points 
of the Island, opposite the Coast of Labrador; [TC Note- Welch was not well 
acquainted with Newfoundland- Bonavista isn't anywhere near Labrador] where 
the Inhabitants have been destitute of a Clergyman or any kind of Minister 
for about thirty years; and too many of them are little better than heathens. 
The people received Mr. Smith with the utmost cordiality, and have drawn up 
a petition to your Grace, which has been signed by the Justice of the Peace 
and all the Principal Inhabitants, earnestly entreating your Grace to ordain 
Mr. Smith, and to appoint him, or get him appointed, their Minister and the 
Missionary for that place and neighbourhood: and Mr. Smith is willing to devote 
himself to that work in that most disagreeable and desolate part of Newfoundland.

When I was last winter at Poole, I received very pleasing accounts of the 
success of Mr. Smith's labours, from Mr. Kemp, my nephew, who is the principal 
merchant in Conception Bay; and have also had letters from Poole, since the 
arrival of Mr. Smith in England, earnestly importuning me to do every thing 
in my power, to give success to Mr. Smith's design, and to the earnest wishes 
of the People of Bonavista.

Permit me, therefore, my Lord, to recommend Mr. Smith to your Grace's notice; 
as I really believe, that your ordination of him and appointment of him as 
the Missionary of Bonavista, will tend exceedingly to the reformation and 
happiness of those poor People, who live in one of the most dreary regions 
in the British Empire.

Permit me to subscribe myself
with very great respect
My Lord
Your Grace's
Very humble
and obedient servant

George Welch

London 22 Dec 1795.

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Church of England Archives C/CAN/NFL3 426

Bonavista
1796

To The Reverend
Dr. Morrice
Gower Street

Lambeth House
Feb 5, 1796

 
Mr. Smith having been with the Archbishop & by him informed of a counter 
petitions against his request to be sent as a Missionary to Bonavista, has 
expressed a wish to see these petitions which the Archbishop therefore would 
have Dr. Morrice show him. The Archbishop has also told Mr. Smith that he 
can't ordain him, and that he could not therefore propose him as a Misssionary, 
even if there had not been any counter petition before the Society. J. Cantnan.

[IE GEORGE SMITH].