| Description | Following his wife's death (19 May) he fears for his children's health and would leave but for his responsibility for the new settlement at Leicester Mountain. Work has begun on a 66' x 20' schoolhouse and other buildings. Until proper teachers are sent he will staff it with the European 'pious' soldier who has been assisting him. He has undertaken the building of a wall around the burying ground to keep out animals and raised £180 for this from local sources, including donations from the Chief Justice, Mr. Sutherland of the African Institution and Mr. Davies the Methodist preacher. He asks CMS to supply three gates and encloses a plan of the burying ground [now missing].
He has the money from the sale of Mrs. Hartwig's effects but not the bills drawn from F. Macaulay. He will send what he owes CMS by a sloop-of-war only, now that war has resumed with France. He again asks for a funeral pall, clothing material and tools.
Postscript: 25 Jun 1815: He has received from England plans of the church to be built in Freetown and of the Leic. Mt. establishment. |