William Staughton, College Hill, District of Columbia, to David Benedict, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 14 June 1825.  

College Hill, D. C. June 14. 1825.

My dear brother,

         Permit me, in the name of our Board, to request that you will have the goodness to present to the Warren Association at its next meeting the preceding Circular.

         Can’t you find an hour in which to drop me a line. How is your health? How your family? How are you coming on as an author? How is your church advancing?

         I have lately paid Sansom Street a visit. She is, I think, well accommodated with a pastor, a brother of the name of Dagg, from Upperville, Virginia. His talents are quite of a superior order, and his zeal for the Lord of Hosts equal to his talents. – The first chruch in Phila. is in much affliction. She has excluded or suspended most of her Deacons, who from 30 to 50 years have been labouring for her good. Brother Ashton, pastor of the 3rd church in that city is, I fear sinking beneath a consumptive attack. –

         Present my affectionate regards to your good lady and children and when you have opportunity to Dr Gano –

         Yr brother in the gospel of the Redeemer

                                 Wm Staughton –

Revd Mr Benedict.

Address: College Hill Dr | June 15 | 25 | Revd David Benedict, | Pawtucket, |Rhode Island. –

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Text: William Staughton Letters, RG no. 1133, American Baptist Historical Society Archives, Atlanta. In this set of letters are four printed Circular Letters by William Staughton: (1) a printed Circular letter to the New Jersey Association from the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions for the United States, composed by Staughton and dated from Philadelphia, May 1818; (2) a printed Circular letter to the New Jersey Association from the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions for the United States, composed by Staughton and dated from Philadelphia, May 1819, signed “Wm Staughton” as Corresponding Secretary, and sent to “Elder Joseph Sheppard for the New Jersey Association,” “Corresponding Secretary of the New Jersey Association”; (3) a printed Circular letter to an unknown recipient about some new intiatives by the Education Society and the Board; and (4) a printed Circular letter to the Baptist Associations throughout the United States from the Board of Managers of the Baptist General Convention, from College Hill, D.C. and dated 26 May 1823.