I gratefully acknowledge the Receipt of Your Excelleys Favour by David Fowler--I much regrett the loss of Goak, who, as David and others inform me, was a man of great Consequence, both with respect to their religious, and Secular Interest.
And I am indeed much affected with the accot (which you referr me to David for) of the occasions given to several Tribes to revive their old Prejudices, and renew their Hostilities against the English. May your Excellency experience that same Fountain of Wisdom which has hitherto guided you on such occasions, to be still sufficient for you, in this critical affair.
My plan is much disconcerted hereby--The English youth
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who accompany this, viz. Johnson and McCluer,' are Members of Yale College, as well as of this School ; and were design'd, if it might be, under Your Excellency's Direction & Favour, to spend the ensuing Season, (with their Indian associates) in learning the Language of such Tribes, as they may likely serve, as Missionaries & School Masters, when they have compleated their Learning. The Disposal of them is now submitted to your Wisdom, and Prudence. M' Kirtland seems inclined to take McCluer to Onoyada with him; But whether the learning of that Language will be of such Consequence as that it will be worth his spending his Time for it, Your Excellency is best able to judge.
I have thought it might be best for Joseph Johnson, who is a Mohegan,? and is too young to have the government of a school, to be employed, as an Usher under David Fowler, whose school, I understand, will likely be big enough for two masters.