Albany Novr: 21 1755 Very Dear Sir!

I1 ketch a moment to write you a word that our begun aquaintance may not be Lost but Cultivated. It was a great Satisfaction to me that I found such a friend in one that I never Saw before, and shall always Look on myself obliged to you for the open generous and kind treatment I Received. We seem to be united I think in the disposition of our minds and our turn for friendship. I hope we shall also be united in the pure Principles and Practice of true Religion.

Nothing very new here. The young Ladies are as Strait-Laced and trim as even. I expect to See some of you good Chaplains before Long, tho I think it will fall to your Lot to take up winter quarters at the fort that matter I trust will be settled well among you. God bless you, My Dear. Da Da, in haste—yours,

SILVANUS CONANT

My compliments to the Doctr: Commissary. and all friends.

RC ; addressed: "To Mr: Pain, Chaplain att Lake-George; endorsed.

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Sylvanus Conant (1720–1777), minister of the First Church of Middleborough, Mass., served as a chaplain in Colonel Thatcher's regiment in the Crown Point Expedition of 1755 (Sibley's Harvard Graduates, 10:471–478).