death gave him his freedom, only he continued in the family till his master’s exit.  Mr. Sharp in the time of the war was an officer, and was at last killed in the king’s service, by a ball which shot off his hand.  The author of this account handled the bloody glove, which he wore when he received the fatal wound.  Some persons were at this time dissatisfied with George’s liberation, and threw him into prison, but by producing the proper papers he was released; his particular friend in this business was colonel Kirkland.  “At the vacuation of the country I was partly obliged to come to Jamaica, as an indented servant, for money I owed him, he promising to be my friend in this country.  I was landed at Kingston, and by the colonel’s recommendation to general Campbell, the governor of the Island, I was employed by him two years, and on leaving the island, he gave me a written certificate from under his own hand of my good behaviour.  As soon as I had settled Col.  Kirkland’s demands on me, I had a certificate of my freedom from the vestry and governor, according to the act of this Island, both for myself and family.  Governor Campbell left the Island.  I began, about September 1784, to preach in Kingston, in a small private house, to a good smart congregation, and I formed the church with four brethren from America besides myself, and the preaching took very good effect with the poorer sort, especially the slaves.  The people at first persecuted us both at meetings and baptisms, but, God be praised, they seldom interrupt us now.  We have applied to the Honourable House of Assembly, with a petition of our distresses, being poor people, desiring to worship Almighty God according to the tenets of the Bible, and they have granted us liberty, and given us their sanction.  Thanks be to God we have liberty to worship him as we please in the Kingdom.  You ask about those who,” in a judgment of charity, “have been converted to Christ.  I think they are about four hundred and fifty.  I have baptized four hundred in Jamaica.  At Kingston I baptize in the sea, at Spanish Town in the river, and at convenient places in the country.  We have nigh three hundred and fifty members; a few white people among them, one white brother of the first battalion of royals, from England, baptized by Rev. Thomas Davis.  Several members have been dismissed to other churches, and twelve have died.  I have sent enclosed” an account of “the conversion and death of some.  A few of Mr. Wesley’s people, after immersion, join us and continue with us.  We have, together with well wishers and followers, in different parts of the country, about fifteen hundred people.  We receive none into the church without a few lines from their owners of their good behaviour towards them and religion.  The Creoles of the country, after they are converted and baptized, as God enables them, prove very faithful.  I have deacons and elders, a few; and teachers of small congregations in the town and country, where convenience suits them