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Kenyon is happy to hear that West has left Ohio. He writes Chase to ask if a reverend named J. Cradock might be able to settle with his family in Gambier.
Date
1-23-1831
Keywords
Lord Howden, Rev. J. Cradock, G. M. West, George Montgomery West, Mr. Cleaver, Archbishop of Dublin, Marianne Kenyon, Lloyd Kenyon, Edward Kenyon, Margaret Kenyon, Percy Kenyon
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Lord Kenyon, "Letter to Philander Chase" (1831). Philander Chase Letters. 881.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/chase_letters/881
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Gredington
Jany 23
1831
My dearest Bishop
I heartily rejoice to [send] Mr West has left Ohio, & [hope] he is not to return there. I certainly still believe him to have been honest & zealous in all his conduct in the British Isles in behalf of Ohio. [Of] his pecuniary honesty I have no no suspicion whatever, nor of his [denial] to collect subscriptions for Ohio & to save it from being ex[pir]ed [to] expenses. With his behaviour after his [lord] [whent] to Ohio from England, I am [certainly] not at all satisfied especially with his [claim] for your aid that he might become your [successor] wh. I think was utterly indefensible; and the want of [respect] towds. you his greatest earthly benefactor who with a warmth of heart & simplicity of zeal wh. very few others wd. have [shewn] took him at once to your bosom, I can’t forgive. I write now in consequence of having had a letter brought me from Lord Howden formerly [Gerlhin] [I.] Cradock desiring me to recommend to you the Revd. Mr. J Cradock (in Pri[?] [today]) his near relation who wishes to settle in Ohio. I have by me a high testimonial in his favour from Mr Cleaver son of the late Dr Cleaver Achbp. of Dublin an excellent man & [whose] son also is highly respected. Mr Cleaver writes this: “You always felt much interest in Mr Cradock, [but] since you had any intercourse with him, he seem[s] to have made rapid progress, & to have become a truly devoted Xtian Minister. I shall feel a very serious loss, whenever it shall please the Lord to fix elsewhere. For he is [rendering] us most valuable service. He has a Lecture every Wedny Eveg at the end of the Glen of the [town], wh. is attended by all 40 persons & another on Sunday eveng at the same place. And I never heard people express themselves with greater affection towds a pastor than these [poor] people do towds him, or with greater delight in listening to the S S expounded. Mrs Cradock always accompanies him & is an helpmeet for him. They have quite won the peoples hearts” He writes more to the like purpose. Mr C is abt 40, has 3 children the eldest 5 yrs old. He is new Curate of Rathdrum [Co.] Wicklow, Dublin Diocese. I will write to the [Abp] of Dublin [concerng.] him. His Uncle was Dean of [St] Patrick his father Prebendary of [St] Patrick & a Rector in the Co Cavan. He says his Wife is afraid, partly from interpretation of prophecies she has read that great calamities are coming on Ireland, & wishes to get to a quiet land where they who addict themselves to preaching may live in peace [&] the labourer be found worthy of hire; Maintenance, not wealth, is what they wish. Now my dearest Bishop enable me from your authority to [?] an answer as may enable Mr C to determine whether he dare venture to move his Wife & 3 babes to Ohio; & that if more apply to me I may explain what hopes of usefulness duty & situation they may anticipate. In my reply wh. I gave to Mr C I only told him he might be sure of a most kind reception, & have the power of being very instrumental in preaching the Word of Salvation. Let me hear soon. My precious Marianne Lloyd & Edwd are quite well & in God’s mercy I trust what my own blessed Margarets & my Percy wd wish such [?] to [me]. Ever your most affecte. friend Kenyon
We are all peaceable about [here] & about Peel, & go to London on the 31st [ev.]