University of Otago Library Letter: Reverend Josiah Pratt to John King, Dinah Hall and William Hall, 29 August 1811 Reverend Josiah Pratt Author John King Receiver Dinah Hall Receiver William Hall Receiver text Letter 29 August 1811 eng text/html 321 x 200 mm 3 leaves 6 pages reformatted digital Letter was sent to New South Wales, Australia Notes about the destination address: Paramatta, New South Wales Hocken Collections' Title: Josiah Pratt, Secretary, to the New Zealand settlers (Copy) Annotations: (Copy) Scope and Content: This letter concerns giving encouragement and advice to settlers New Zealand -41.244772,174.675751 Hall John King Mr Marsden Conference proceedings Proceedings Hope Hope God God Master Port Jackson -36.61458,175.44906 Christian Books Book New Zealanders Heavenly Master Mrs Health Health Peace Peace Faith Faith Committees Committee Judge Pratt Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0498_239 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0498_239_001 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0498_239_002 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0498_239_003 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0498_239_004 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0498_239_005 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0498_239_006 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0498_239_007 MS_0498_239 CMS Number 89 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. University of Otago Library 2015-06-11T15:00:10+12:00 machine generated eng Letter: Reverend Josiah Pratt to John King, Dinah Hall and William Hall, 29 August 1811 Reverend Josiah Pratt University of Otago Library Digitised from the Hocken Library Collection Number MS-0498/239 CMS Number 89 Digitised by the Marsden Online Archive Library of Congress Subject Headings Letter Maori Subject Headings John King and Dinah Hall and William Hall 29 August 1811 New South Wales, Australia British English Conference proceedings Hope God Books Health Peace Faith Committees New zealand Hall John king Marsden Proceedings Hope God Port jackson Christian Book New zealanders Heavenly master Health Peace Faith Committee Pratt Copy of a Letter from the Secretary to the Settlers at New Zealand To Wm and D. Hall and John King Dear Friends We have received different letters from Mr Marsden and you, which have given us some insight into your proceedings and circumstances. The events which have taken place at New Zaeealand, being entirely under beyond our controul, control must be submitted to as of God’s special appointment. Though they may retard you intended settleing settling among that people, yet we hope that they will not frustrate the design. It gave us pleasure to hear that our God protected you in safety, and meaintained alive your earnest desires to be instrumental in diffusing the knowledge of his salvation. And we pray for you, that our Great and Blessed Master would endue you with the abundant grace of the Holy Spirit. It is a great satisfaction to us, and must be so to you also, that you immediately on your arrival at Port Jackson entered into active employ. I send you a sett of the Christian Guardian up to the present time; & shall take opportunities, in future, to continue it: as it will be a pleasant and useful book for you to read. Enclosed also is a copy of the last two sermons and Reports of our Society. It will give us much pleasure to hear, if it shall please God to prosper our designs, that you have been ena-bled to proceed to New Zealand, and to settle yourselves there in security, and with a prospect of ultimate success in your undertaking. Reports very unfavourable to the natives have reached us, and seem to have had some influence to their prejudice on your minds: but we are much inclined to ^think with Mr Marsden, that the New Zealanders have been very shamefully used by our countrymen; and where they are properly treated, there is no just ground to fear settleing among them. wWe pray that our Heavenly Master would guide you and our friends in all your deliberations. May the Holy Spirit keep alive in your hearts much love to the souls of the heathen. How hono^urable is our cause! How acceptable to our Lord even the desire to be instrume^ntal of winning souls to Him, whether he may seem to prosper your labours or not! We beg you to write by every opportunity your feelings and views on the objects before you. Make ^us as fully acquainted as you can with the character, and manners & of the natives when you settle among them. And let us hear, from time to time, what you find to be obstacles in the way of enlightening the natives, and the best way of removing them. Here is a wide friend field for your observations and remarks, And these communications will ^always be acceptable to the Comittee. We shall be glad to hear of Mrs Hall’s health and spirits being good: and we trust that our God will be with you, and give you peace and harmo-ny together, faith and humble dependmentence on him, patience and zeal in his cause, and such success as may redound to the glory of his name. If you should be enabled to establish yourselves, with good prospect of success, at New Zealand, others will be ready to join you from ^this country, like minded with yourselves. We have some such persons in view, but the Com^mittee are unwilling to enter into an engagement with them till they have farther light thrown on the path of their duty. Take every opportunity of corresponding with us: and be assured that we feel much for you, and that you are reme^mbered in many prayers. Live near God yourselves, in the daily renewing of your vows to Christ, and in the deriveing of supplies of mercy and grace from the Father through Christ by the Spirit. The sum ^of ₤28 which Mr Hall mentions as haveing been expended, the Committee have directed me to request Mr Marsden to return to you, if he shall judge it proper. In every thing we wish you to refer yourselves to that excellent friend’s judgement, and that of those other friends who with him have undertaken to assist us in our designs. We beg you to accept our Christian love. Believe me, Dear Friends, In the best of bonds, Your’s very affectionatly Josiah Pratt Hocken Archive Reference Number MS-0498/239 35MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 19756a33a4fabf931b9dc53436e19634 ACEMC 2736 4512 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0498/239 200 mm 321 mm 2014:05:02 15:21:10.91 University of Otago Library, Reprographics Unit digital still camera Canon Canon EOS 6D 11.0 1 Manual 0220 1 11.0 6.9 1.4 Multi-segment tungsten flash did not fire 50.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 62.3 mm) 0 Subject is illuminated from the front side. 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Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. hocken@otago.ac.nz Hocken Archive Reference Number MS-0498/239 35MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 67313c76aa4be96a0cfb6452efafc066 ACEMC 2790 4482 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0498/239 200 mm 321 mm 2014:05:02 15:20:36.96 University of Otago Library, Reprographics Unit digital still camera Canon Canon EOS 6D 11.0 1 Manual 0220 1 11.0 6.9 1.4 Multi-segment tungsten flash did not fire 50.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 62.3 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 2014:05:06 12:25:15 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-0498/239 37MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 4f8579d8c1d2fda73c227fc350f5e260 ACEMC 2910 4482 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0498/239 200 mm 321 mm 2014:05:02 15:20:53.33 University of Otago Library, Reprographics Unit digital still camera Canon Canon EOS 6D 11.0 1 Manual 0220 1 11.0 6.9 1.4 Multi-segment tungsten flash did not fire 50.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 61.5 mm) 0 Subject is illuminated from the front side. 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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-0498/239 38MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 90af532c7ccca809dea75f3ec37b23e3 ACEMC 2988 4524 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0498/239 200 mm 321 mm 2014:05:02 15:21:52.76 University of Otago Library, Reprographics Unit digital still camera Canon Canon EOS 6D 11.0 1 Manual 0220 1 11.0 6.9 1.4 Multi-segment tungsten flash did not fire 50.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 60.7 mm) 0 Subject is illuminated from the front side. 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