Shep's Place Family Tree

"Young William was ordained, and in 1807 was married and went as a missionary worker and business helper to one of Carey's first converts in the neighborhood of his own early labours as an indigo planter. Carey said to him:

'You are situated in a post, my son, very dear to my remembrance, because my first Indian years were spent in its neighborhood... Be steady in your work and leave the results to God." The place in which William was stationed was lonely, however, and terrorized by buffalo and brigands. Later he wrote his father asking for a safer place, but Carey replied sternly:

"You and Mary will be a thousand times safer committing yourselves to God in the path of duty than neglecting duty to take care of yourselves...Mount your horse and be out on God's work." Later they moved to Cutwa.

22d December 1808 from his father to William: "I am very glad you wrote to Jabez and Jonathan. O that I could see them converted!"

5th February 1810. Were you hunting the buffalo, or did it charge you without provocation? I advise you to abstain from hunting buffaloes or other animals, because, though I think it lawful to kill noxious animals, or to kill animals for food, yet the unnecessary killing of animals, and especially the spending much time in the pursuit of them, is wrong, and your life is too valuable to be thrown away by exposing it to such furious animals as buffaloes and tigers....

I send you a small cask of rum to preserve curiosities in, and a few bottles; but your best way will be to draw off a couple of gallons of the rum, which you may keep for your own use, and then put the snakes, frogs, toads, lizards, etc., into the cask and send them down. I can easily put them into proper bottles, etc., afterwards. You may, however, send one or two of the bottles filled with beetles, grasshoppers, and other insects."