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' could make. However, he sold the house for $2,- 
250.00, and was assured that a deed signed by all 
the members of the Executive Committee would 
be satisfactory. The deed was prepared, sent to 
this country, signed by the committee and returned 
to the purchaser. And thus ends the history of 
the Freetown mission-house. 
The main mission-building, referred in a for- 
mer chapter, not yet being finished, and there not 
being sufficient room to accommodate him and 
Mr. Williams and his family, he determined to 
return home as soon as practicable. He was the 
more anxious to return by reason of the terrible 
war going on in this country, and the news that 
was circulated in all the colonies of Sierra Leone 
that England had declared war against the United 
States. From these and other considerations not 
necessary to here mention, he sailed for America, 
and arrived safely in Dayton early in April, 1862. 
Fearino; that some of the church-members who 
did not understand the state of affairs as well as 
they might would take offense, or charge him 
with spending money unnecessarily, Mr. F. gener- 
ously paid his own expenses, amounting in the 
aggregate to over three hundred dollars. For 
this sacrifice of suffering and peril and money 
the Board of Missions returned him a vote of 
thanks ! 
