Mr John Smith Mercht in Boston is going to England in May or June, who will be employed in the affair so far.as may be consistant with his Business and Character, if no Clergyman can be obtained for that purpose. And a Recommendation of the Affair to Gentlemen at Home, by your Excellency, may be of very great service to the Furtherance of it, and likely of much greater service to it thanany other man's, as your Connections are, and your Character now rising in the Kingdom.

If Your Excellency will condesend to favour us and The Design in these Respects we shall esteem it to bea singular Favour.

I have ordered David to make ready 8 or 10 likely Boys, such as you shall approve for this School, by that Time the rest of my Boys arive to you, by whom I shall send a Lad to accom pany hither those he thus prepares for me, unless Joseph Woolley's coming with them sho4 prevent me.

1 Rey. Joun Brainerp was brother tothe celebrated David B. and like him an Indian Missionary. He graduated in Yalein1746. His labours were chiefly among the Indians of New Jersey. He died in 1780.

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