In a letter I wrote you last Fall I proposed that if way could be made for setting up of this School in some convenient Place, And the Settlement of three or four Towns round about it, I would remove with it, and bring Several Ministers with me of the best Character and take Care to people the Place with Inhabitants of known Honesty, Integrity, and such as Love Indians, & will seek their Interest. but whether the Letter reached you or not I never heard, or whether you thought it any more thana sudden indigested thought I cant tell, however I should be very 'glad to hear if there be any Probability that such a Design may be Effected ; If your Hont can find Leisure enough amidst your weighty affairs to gratify me in the things which I have assumed the Boldness to request of you, you will Greatly oblige me and I hope the Nature of the affair and the assurances your Hont has

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given me of your Friendship towards it will be esteemed a suffi cient excuse for me and that your Hon: will believe thatIam with the most sincere Respect

your most Obedt and most Hum»le Servt

ELeazarR WHEELOCK. Sir William Johnson Baronet.

REV. MR. WHEELOCK TO SIR WM. JOHNSON.

Lebanon September 8t" 1762.

Pe Your Honour has no doubt been informed of a Legacy of Sir Peter Warren of about Seven hundred and fifty Pounds Sterling left in the hands of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, it being the Sum due to him from that Province, as his Commissions for their pay from the Crown for taking Cape Breton some Years ago, and which he gave to be by them improved at Six p' Cent for the Education of the youth of the Sia Nations.