Wesley Corpus

Your affectionate brother. To Ebenezer Blackwell MARLBOROUGH, March 1, 1756. Wishing Mrs. Blackwell and you all health of soul and body, I am, dear sir, Your affectionate servant. To James West 9 MARLBOROUGH, March 1, 1756. SIR, A few days since, Mr. Whitefield and I desired a friend to ask your advice, to whom it would be proper to make an offer of rafting a company of volunteers for His Majesty's service. We apprehended the number would be about five hundred, Finding Mr. Whitefield has since been persuaded that such an offer is premature, I am constrained to make the following independently of him: To raise for His Majesty's service at least two hundred volunteers, to be supported by contributions among themselves; and to be ready in case of an invasion to act for a year (if needed so long) at His Majesty's pleasure; only within . . . miles of London.