REVEREND EZRA FISHER
118
ments 494 miles; have visited religiously 30 families and 22 individuals. The church at Portland takes her place beside older ones of other denominations under favorable prospects, as you will learn from the reports of Br. Boyakin. Respectfully submitted,
EZRA FISHER, General Itinerant.
Oregon
To
Rev. Benjamin M.
City,
O. Ter., July
1st,
1855.
Hill,
Am. Bap. Home Mission Soc. send you my report of labor under the appointment of the Home Mission Society as Exploring Agent for Cor. Sec. of
Herein
I
the first quarter ending June 30th, 1855.
Tualatin,
West
ette Baptist Association
Have
I
have visited Port-
868
Pleasant Butte, Lebanon, West Union and Yam Hill churches, the Willam-
land, Santiam, Providence,
and Ministers* meeting. by collection taken on Sabbath
collected $24.48
at
Have
obtained a subscription in Tualatin Plains of forty bushels of wheat to be paid to Br. Boyakin in Portland on or before the first day in Oct., to apply on
the Association.
his
salary.
Br.
soon as received.
Boyakin It will
will
report the value to you as
probably be worth from $0.75 to
Paid $3.92 for traveling expenses and $1.00 per bushel. $0.25 for postage $4.17. Have aided in the constitution of the first Baptish church in Portland with eleven members.
Have preached 23 sermons and
traveled to and
from
my
appointments 494 miles. All which is respectfully submitted,
EZRA FISHER, Exploring Agent. Received Aug.
11.
368 The Providence Baptist Church in Linn County, at the forks of the Santiam River, was organized April 9, 1853. Mattoon, Bap. An. of Ore., I:ia. The other churches mentioned have previously been commented upon.
