Your Excellency's request with Regard to the Indian Prayer Book, I can only answer by saying That the long Indisposition and Death of Dr Barclay (which since yé writing of yours no doubt you heard of ) put a total Stop to its Progress, more than you have now inclosed, it not being in our Power to revise or correct it at any Rate ; so that 'twill require your appointment of some proper Person to overlook it as we proceed in y¢ Composition. Before the Doctor's Death he told me y¢ Copy he had was vastly eroneous, which took him up a good deal of time to correct, still doubtfull of his own Capacity, having not studied
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y® Language much since his Call here ; and partly had forgot it, but was determined to do his best--adding withal, That there was some Gentleman (he mentioned his name to me but I forgot it) who had a more perfect Copy than his, and who understood y® Language at this time better than he did ;--I think he told me it was your Son, or one by ye Name of Claus, or Closser who then was absent at Quebeck, Montreal, or some other distant Part back of you, or y® Dt would have wrote to have got it ; and whether he ever signify'd it to youI cannot tell. Thus it rests. I have one half sheet of ye D's correcting in hand; ye Remainder of y® Copy is at his Widdow's, which I could obtain at your Request, and deliver it to any Person you chuse should have y¢ Correction of it and ye work shall proceed directly, and be finished. Iam, Your Excellency's Much obliged H>le Servant W* Weyman.