Parson Roberts … is either dead or past recovery so that you must speedily resolve whom to present … Several have come to me within a few days to procure my letter to you which I have refused, and in regard I heard one Mr B. of the Wheme … intends to wait upon you on his son's behalf I take the boldness to give you this caution that I am informed both are inclined to tippling and withall very quarrelsome, not becoming his coat.

Really Mr Jackson is a very good plain preacher, in my opinion, as any minister I do know of his age, but yet for all it will be a very hard matter to give some people in the parish content for they are heady and high minded and lifted up in the imaginations of their own hearts.