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S. See, G. J. Bl, J. Gordon-to, and . Geddes, I do not think you should entertain any thoughts of exchanging your present business, which plainly appears to be the place in which God would have you to be, for your former or any other station. We are allwise best and may expect the greater blessing and happy success in the situation the Divine Providence puts us in, 1765.

B. L. Sca, J. Paterson, and G. Hay, It is not clear why Paterson apprehended their correspondence would lapse at that point, except for the fact that he was fully settled at Scalan by then and might have feared that Hay would no longer feel it necessary to write regularly to him, 1771.