Hunter, at Albany the 10th August last, when his excellency in his speech to them asked them if they were of the same mind with those four Indians that had been over with Col, Schuyler in desiring missionaries to be sent and they answered they were, and desired to have forts built among them and a church, and tliat Mr. Freeman, present minister of the Dutch congregation at Flatbush, near New York, be one of those two missionaries which the queen promised to send them. This Mr. Freeman, five years ago was minister of Schenectady, and converted several of the Indians ; he has acquired more skill in their language than any Dutch minister that has been in this country, and Mr, Dellius is not so weU skilled in that tongue, a great part of our liturgy he has translated into the Indian tongue, in particular morning and evening prayer, the litany, the creed of St. Atlianasius, &c., besides several places of tlie Old and New Testament. He told me when he read to them the litany, they were mightily affected with it. He is a gentleman of a good temper, and well affected to our church, and if there were a bishop in this part of the

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Tk tM, -u'ould be persuaded to take Episcopal ordination. I ofton entreat him to go over to England, but lie is afraid of the danger of the voyage, and his wife will not consent to live among the Indians ; he has promised to give me his manuscripts, and what he has done into the Indian tongue.