But when M'. Occum came to N. York and heard that you was got Home, he was thereupon advised to return, and accordingly did so ; by which Means I was prevented such a supply of proper youth for this school as I hoped he, with your assistance, and Direction, might obtain from Tribes more remote than I have yet had. Which Disappointment is, in part, the occasion of the present trouble given your Honour.

The Bearers M*. Kirtland, and Joseph Woolley,* come to submitt themselves to your Hon's Direction and conduct with Desire to learn the Seneca and Mohock Languages, and while they are doing that to teach school among them also, if it may be, to procure a Number of likely and suitable, youth for this school. We have heard of a promising English Youth, whom you have sent to King Thomas at Onoquagee, and also of one, Peter, a judicious, and religious Indian there. and also of two likely Indian Boys whom M? Forbush pointed out to the Commis-

About £1,000 were collected for establishing Schools among the American Aborigines. This was placed in the hands of Trustees of whom the Earl of Dartmouth was the principal, and Dr. Wheelock's School was removed to Hanover, N.H. On Occum's return he labored among his countrymen, and removed eventually in 1786 to Brotherton, near Utica, N. Y., whither many Mohegans and Montauks accompanied him, and where he died in July 1792, aged 69. He was accompanied to the grave by upwards of 300 Indians. An account of the Indians of Montauk, by Occum, is published in the Mass: Hist: Coll. He pub: lished a sermon at the execution of Moses Paul at New Haven, Sept. 2, 1772, and much of his correspondence is among the papers of the Hist.