Manuscript letter addressed to Rev. Benjamin Hurst, Wesleyan minister at Goulburn, New South Wales, from fellow Wesleyan William Peggott, Leicestershire, dated 2 June 1855.

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Benjamin Hurst (1811-1857), in company with Francis Tuckfield, was sent from England to work as a Wesleyan missionary among the Port Phillip Aborigines in 1838. In 1839-40 he was at the Buntingdale Mission Station in the Geelong-Colac area. He next worked at the Wesleyan Chapel in Collins Street, Melbourne before being posted to Sydney in August 1842, where he was based in Surrey Hills. His appointment as minister in Bathurst in early 1845 was met with some opposition from fellow Wesleyans, and the several years he served there were not without controversy. He spent the last period of his life as minister in Goulburn, the fledgling pastoral township on the South Tablelands of New South Wales located on the periphery of the Braidwood and Major s Creek diggings, where he died at the beginning of 1857. This unpublished item of correspondence relates to two other letters addressed to Hurst in 1853-54 which are held in the NLA (MS 10497). Its contents reveal that although Hurst was far away on the other side of world, he was still very much involved with and financially obligated to the Wesleyan Methodist Church and its activities in his home district in Leicestershire. Entire letter addressed to Rev. B. Hurst, Wesleyan Minister, Goulburn, New South Wales ; manuscript in ink, [3] pp quarto; headed Hinckley, June 2nd 1855 , written by William Peggott, a Wesleyan minister in Leicestershire; address panel tied with 6d brown Queen s head; original folds; roughened at one edge where th

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