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vised him to return to <placename>Europe</placename>. <emotion>After
fervent prayer </emotion><emotion>we felt freedom to follow
this advice,</emotion> & having earnestly commended
our baptized Negroes whom we affectionate-
ly loved & whose love towards us we felt, to
the Shepherd, & Bishop of our Souls, in
hopes to meet them once around the throne
of the Lamb, we set sail in <date>May 1802</date>, &
had on the whole a good & prosperous
voyage. My husband's health improved
much on the sea, & in the beginning of
<date>July</date> we arrived with our d<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">r</hi></hi> B<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">r</hi></hi><hi rend="superscript">n</hi> & S<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">r</hi></hi><hi rend="superscript">s</hi>
in <placename>London</placename>, <emotion>glad & thankful to the Lord,</emotion>
for all his mercies. My dear partner was
still spared to me after this, upwards of 10
years, & we had the favour to serve our
Savior in several English Cong<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">n</hi></hi><hi rend="superscript">s</hi> first
for a short time in <placename>Bedford</placename>, then for 3
years in Bedford <placename>Leominster</placename>, & a year
& a quarter in <placename>Gomersall</placename> where a par-
ticular blessing was <sic>laced</sic>  <corr>placed</corr> on my husband's
testimony, & where the Chapel was ge-
nerally crowded with attentive hearers,
But the keen air & hilly situation of
the place did not suit his debilitated con-
stitiuation, & from thence we had a call
to serve the Cong<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">n</hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi> at <placename>London</placename> where we