DEAR Nephew,—I remember kindly your wife, and I advise you in that place, where you can scarce have access to any ordinances, and cannot but be exposed unto many disadvantages and dangers in point of religion—I advise you to take the first opportunity of coming out of Babylon, and settling your business where ye may be under lively means of grace. I know you are a child of many prayers, and you were prayed back from the gates of death; and now I wish that you may give evidence that you have been prayed back indeed for mercy to yourself. I shall be glad that this advice from a dying man come to be any ways useful to you. The Lord be with your spirit. You cannot expect from one of my condition a digested, polished letter; but I speak the words of soberness, and full composure of mind, blessed be God. Let your kindness to the dead appear in your kindness to my dear widow whom I leave behind, and my six children. Show your concern with both.—Thos. Halyburton.