Letter: Reverend Daniel Wilson to Reverend Josiah Pratt, 24 October 1808
Reverend Daniel Wilson
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
Letter
Maori Subject Headings
Reverend Josiah Pratt
24 October 1808
Oxford, England
British English
Committees
John king
New zealand
Morton
Committee
Wilson
Hall
24th
1808
My dear Friend, The Father of John King, whom I have introduced to the Society as a settler in New Zealand, came over to me yesterday at Morton. The measures which his son is taking are greatly distressing to him & he earnestly pressed me to represent his feelings to the Society. I told the old man that John King acted perfectly voluntarily & that no constraint would be offered him either by the Committee or myself but that, as he was of age, perhaps the Society would consider him as entitled to act on his own judgment. I promised however to write expressly to you on the subject, which I now do, & to beg that every enquiry may be
instituted which may be necessary to satisfy the minds of the Committee & of myself that the young man is breaking thro’through no higher obligation in his dedication of himself to the work of a settler. I remain My dear friend Yrsyears affectlyaffectionately D. Wilson Edmund Hall Octr 24th 1808