The  four  missionaries,  J.  Richards,  D.  Poore,  H.  Bramwell,  ft
B.  C.  Meigs,  all  four  with  wives,  ft  E.  Warren  left  Newbury  Port
last  week.  A  prayer  on  the  whaxt  ft  two  thousand  sang  Old  Hun-
dred as  they  departed.  The  first  Baptist  meeting  House  in
Charlestown  is  offered  at  Vendue.  It  is  51  by  75  and  it  is  said
in  the  advertisement  that  it  will  make  a  good  dwelling  house  or
factory.  Mr.  B.  Crowninshield  who  has  erected  a  Brick  factory
in  Danvers  being  asked  respecting  the  building  should  his  manu-
factures not  succeed,  said  that  he  had  in  thought  to  sell  it  as  a
Baptist  meeting  House  should  the  first  plan  fail.  This  was  not  a
joke  but  a  speculation  about  which  8ome  conversation  had  passed.
1815]  WILLIAM  BBNTLEY,   D.  D.  859

30.  A  generally  prevailing  epedemic  Cold,  commonly  called
Influenza.  H  has  generally  a  hard  cough,  depression  of  spirits,
prostration  of  strength.  The  worst  complaints  short,  the  recov-
ery slow,  with  want  of  appetite.  I  was  with  a  whole  family  free
from  it,  &  on  the  next  day  all  of  every  age  from  80  to  10
were  afflicted  with  it.  Their  symptoms  diverse,  excepting  the
prostration.  Some  more  fever,  some  more  cough,  some  more  sore-
ness of  throat,  ft  some  pains  in  the  viscera,  all  complain  of  gen-
eral weakness.
31.  The  late  Oale  among  other  things  destroyed  the  Mulberry
Trees  of  Rev.  Webster,  D.  D.  a  worthy  divine  of  Salisbury.  They
were  planted  in  1772  by  Dr.  W.  to  feed  the  silk  worms  which
about  that  time  had  drawn  much  patriotic  attention.  The  one
from  which  the  specimen  was  sent  to  me  by  my  worthy  friend
Deacon  Dorr  of  that  place  was  about  12  or  15  inches  in  diameter.
