University of Otago Library Letter: John Cowell to Reverend Samuel Marsden, 23 August 1823 John Cowell Author Reverend Samuel Marsden Receiver text Letter Bay of Islands, New Zealand 23 August 1823 3 July 1824 Notes about where the letter was created: Bay of Islands, New Zealand eng text/html 324 x 209 mm 1 leaves 2 pages reformatted digital Hocken Collections' Title: John Cowell to Marsden Bay Of Islands -35.17886,174.169586 New Zealand -41.244772,174.675751 Augt 1823 Revd Saml Marsden Sir Committees Committee Ranghi Hoo -36.809285,175.061835 Religion Religion Kendall Sabbath Mr Grief Mourning John Butler Conversation Conversation Gospel Westmoreland ship Cowell Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0057_099 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0057_099_001 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0057_099_002 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0057_099_003 MS_0057_099 Trimble 99 CMS Number 20 The manuscript images, transcripts and metadata displayed on the Marsden Online Archive site are governed by a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 New Zealand (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 NZ) copyright agreement (available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/nz/). 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University of Otago Library 2015-06-11T12:13:04+12:00 machine generated eng Letter: John Cowell to Reverend Samuel Marsden, 23 August 1823 John Cowell University of Otago Library Digitised from the Hocken Library Collection Number MS-0057/099 Trimble 99 CMS Number 20 Digitised by the Marsden Online Archive Library of Congress Subject Headings Letter Maori Subject Headings Reverend Samuel Marsden 23 August 1823 Bay of Islands, New Zealand 3 July 1824 British English Committees Religion Grief Conversation Bay of islands New zealand Augt 1823 Saml Marsden Committee Ranghi hoo Religion Kendall Sabbath Mourning John Butler Conversation Gospel Westmoreland Cowell Bay of Islands New Zealand 23d Augt 1823 To Revd Saml Marsden Revd Sir, As you requested me at a committee held at Ranghi Hoo on Augt 11 to state my reasons for not uniting with the brethren in the public ordinances of religion I will freely answer you. For some time after my arrival in New Zealand I attended the weekly meeting of the settlers at Ranghi Hoo but finding so much discord and want of Charrity prevailing amongst us I could not with any degree of comfort continue my attendance. After the suspension of the Revd Thos Kendall I did not join with the settlers in their worship on the sabbath day as I considered they were not authorized authorised to conduct it more than myself. I returned [to] Mr Kendall and worshiped with him purely from religious motives being satisfied Mr Kendall was at that time a sincere penitent and was morning for his past error was I to turn a deaf ear to his mourning and say stand off I am more holy than you. No Sir I took St Paul for my guide where he says if a brother falls restore such an one in the spirit of meekness &c. With respect to attending the Ministry of the Revd John Butler when he occasionally visited Ranghi Hoo I did so until I was fully aware that his walk and conversation was not according to the gospel of Christ he has been guilty sir, to my own knowledge of some gross acts of sin. I have seen him drunk, I have heard him utter scurrilous languge respecting your family in public on board of the ship Westmoreland. How could I then shew any preference to his Ministry I am Revd Sir Your Obt obedient Servant John Cowell Hocken Archive Reference Number MS-0057/099 38MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 396cbd3a1c448422684e57c20d309192 ACEMC 2976 4536 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0057/099 209 mm 324 mm 2014:04:29 13:54:36.41 University of Otago Library, Reprographics Unit digital still camera Canon Canon EOS 6D 11.0 0.6 Manual 0220 0.6 11.0 7.7 1.4 Multi-segment tungsten flash did not fire 50.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 60.6 mm) 0 Subject is illuminated from the front side. Auto Focus Used Normal Digitised as part of the Mining Marsden Project in 2013/2014 8, 8, 8 integer 3 2014:04:29 14:24:47 University of Otago Library, Reprographics Unit Processing actions undertaken to: prepare the image for online digital use and maintain the integrity of the image. Adobe Photoshop CS6 Windows 7 Cropped item to remove excess border and straightened the image. The manuscript images, transcripts and metadata displayed on the Marsden Online Archive site are governed by a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 New Zealand (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 NZ) copyright agreement (available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/nz/). Please contact the Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand for more information. Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. hocken@otago.ac.nz Hocken Archive Reference Number MS-0057/099 36MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 f1d3e79b017f1c7b5480147197fc5cd9 ACEMC 2868 4482 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0057/099 209 mm 324 mm 2014:04:29 13:55:01.68 University of Otago Library, Reprographics Unit digital still camera Canon Canon EOS 6D 11.0 0.6 Manual 0220 0.6 11.0 7.7 1.4 Multi-segment tungsten flash did not fire 50.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 61.8 mm) 0 Subject is illuminated from the front side. Auto Focus Used Normal Digitised as part of the Mining Marsden Project in 2013/2014 8, 8, 8 integer 3 2014:04:29 14:25:01 University of Otago Library, Reprographics Unit Processing actions undertaken to: prepare the image for online digital use and maintain the integrity of the image. Adobe Photoshop CS6 Windows 7 Cropped item to remove excess border and straightened the image. The manuscript images, transcripts and metadata displayed on the Marsden Online Archive site are governed by a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 New Zealand (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 NZ) copyright agreement (available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/nz/). Please contact the Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand for more information. Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. hocken@otago.ac.nz