1802  24 May  Boston  

732. Lynde Walter to Gideon White, in receipt of letter asking him to find a suitable schoolmaster for Shelburne, which he fears he cannot do. "Mr. Prescott tells me that the Winsor College is now on so good a footing that many Lads from Hfx are gone up to that Seminary...I am now engaged in lading the Venus for Messrs. Prescott & Lawson of Hfx to the Western Island. the former Gent is now w[it]h me & is going the Voyage for the benefit of his health." General American News.  Holograph.

White Family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 Vol. 951 No. 732