In a few days, having duly arranged all things relative to the purchase and removal, we left for Baltimore, with feelings commingled with joy and sorrow--sorrow at parting with five of our older children, and our many friends; and rejoicing in the prospect of remaining together permanently in the missionary field, where God had called me to labor.

I arrived in Baltimore, with my wife and two little ones, November 5th, 1851, and stopped with sister Hester Ann Hughes, a worthy member of the M.E.
Church, with whom I had been boarding for four years.
The Md.

Baptist Union Association was now in session here, and it became my duty to prepare my church letter and missionary report, for that body.

The church had now been organized just three years; commencing with only four members, including the pastor.

Our church statistics for the year, as reported, were: Baptized, 2; Received by letter, 2; Present number of members, 15....