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64   SOLOMON BAYLEY

The following additional information respecting Solomon Bayley, was received from Daniel Cooledge, of New York, in the summer of 1836.

Solomon Bayley, when in this city some years ago, was frequently at my house, taking his meals &c.; and we were instructed by his Christian demeanor, for he seemed to do every thing with reference to the glory of God, and for the promotion of his righteous cause in the earth,=—being also very cleanly in his person.

50. When he removed from Hayti to Monrovia, in Africa, he had buried all his children, and most of them after they had arrived at the age of men and women; and just before leaving Monrovia on a tour to America, his wife died also, and he was left along.

51. When he first arrived at Monrovia, he took up a lot of ground of seven acres, which emigrants are entitled to, and cleared and cultivated it for his support, and built a house immediately on the margin of a river. He however left a large spreading tree, whose branches hung over the water. Under this tree he built a platform, where he sits to read and meditate in the middle of the day, during the hot season of the year,—-working in the cool of the morning and evening.

52. After his return from America, he married a second wife, said to be a very suitable person.

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He has a society that he preaches to, and he is also looked up to as a father and counsellor by the people generally. Although he is aged, he seems to retain much of the strength and vigor of youth.
53. The last accounts from him say, that he was very diligent and faithful in his calling,—-laboring not only for the souls of his brethren, but for their bodies also—-by setting them the best example he was capable of, in cultivating his land to the best advantage, and by improving his plans, to show the natives, as well as the emigrants, the usefulness and comforts of civilized life.

54. He seemed, when here, to feel quite as lively an interest in the welfare of the natives, as in that of the emigrants, saying, "They come a long distance to learn the manners and customs of the emigrants, and take great delight in imitating them." When in this city he often attended Friends' meetings, and on hearing one of their ministers preach from this text, "That which is wanting cannot be numbered," the tears ran down his aged face like water.

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