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.

REVD. DR. WHEELOCK To SIR WM. JOHNSON.

Lebanon 24th Octr. 1764. Sir The Commissioners of a Bord of Corrispondents, lately formd by a Comission of the Honble Society in Scotland for Propagating christian knowledge, some time ago sent M*. Occum,' to meet Your Honour, on Your Return from your late

1 Samson Occom, an Indian clergyman, was born at Mohegan, near Norwich, Conn., in the year 1723. He was the first Indian pupil educated at Lebanon, by the Rev. Mr. Wheelock, with whom he entered in 1742, at the age of 19, and remained with him 4 years. In 1748 he taught school in New London, and about the year 1755, went to the east end of Long Island, where he opened a school for the Shenecock Indians.