Another Head of which your Lordship may find the Ind^. make mention, is their want of Religious Teachers ; on this subject they greatly enlarged, at scv'. Conferences I had with them & appear

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to consider it as so great a neglect in Gov*, that I judged it most advisable to give them better hopes, & thereby put an end to their murmuring, The majority of Ind^. tis true, do not as yet request it, but even they consider our neglecting to Gratify those that are so disposed, as a farther instance of our indifference & disregard. I have formerly mentioned this subject on applications from some of the Tribes, It is now become a matter of more serious concern from the earnestness with which the whole were about to second the desire of a few, and when so fair an opportunity is afforded, I apprehend it is unnecessary to enlarge on the ailvantage it must be of to the State to secure those who have been already instructed in its ReUgion, and to render diffusive those Religious & Civil Sentiments, that are best calculated for its advantage & support. The Mohocks have had Missionaries of the Church of England amongst them from the Reign of Queen Anne till within these few years, they are now without any, & from the scarcity of Clergymen or some other cause, the Society cannot procure them on the Sallary which their small funds have limitted them to, whilst at the same time the Ind^. find that their Brothers in Canada &ca^ who were our Enemies, are regularly supplied, & one lately appointed in Nova Scotia at the Expence of Government as tis said, I therefore cannot help at the Intreaty of the Ind^. humbly recommends to his Majestys consideration, the affords some allowance for the Mohock Mission which has always been under the imediate protection of the Crown, declaring it as my belief that if any farther provision could be made to employ others in so good a work it would increase their reverence for the Crown, and their attachment to the British Interest.