Tam obliged to write in utmost Hurry & Confusion or not embrace this Favourable opportunity of Conveyance which your Goodness will readily enough consider as an Excuse for what is so unfashionably offered by Honé Sir.

Your Excellency's much obliged and most Obed! Humble Servant ELEAzAR WHEELOCK.

Sir Wilim Johnson.

SIR W. JOHNSON TO REV. THOMAS BARTON.

Johnson Hall Nov« 7t4, 1765. Sir I have had the favor of yours, and I am much obliged to you for the trouble you have given yourself about the Electrica]

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Aparatus &c and for your polite & friendly offers of Service of which I may now & then avail myself.

The Interest I have in the Welfare of the Indians, & my sincere regard for their happiness has induced me at all times to give proper Introductions & Assistance to the Missionarys sent amongst them, and if my becoming a Member of the Society will increase my power to forward so good an undertaking I shall not hesitate to agree to Mr Auchmutys kind proposal, to whose civility I am much obliged and must beg the favor of you to transmit him my hearty thanks for his intentions relative to me, assuring him that I can have no Objection to becoming a member of so Venerable a body.

Ishall be Extremely glad to hear of your Welfare or to serve whenever in my power as I am.

The Revé M* Barton

*,*Revd Thomas Barton, was born in Ireland in 1730. He was a graduate of Trinity Coll., Dublin. In 1754, the Society for the Prop. of the Gospel, erected a Mission for the counties of York and Cumberland, Pa, and appointed Mr. Barton to it, he haying brought over with him, and laid before the Society a certificate from the Trustees and Professors of the Philadelphia Coll., that he had been more than two years employed as an assistant in that Institution, and discharged his duty to their full satisfaction, and therefore joined in recommending him ag a proper person for the Society's service.