ethem in this Life: You are therefore to look for your Reward where the most of Good Benifectors have done before you, viz in

Heaven ; But can assure you, that I*bear a sincere & grateful

Sense of your Kinnesses in my Breast & shall never forget them

while I am mindful of myself: particularly your last Letter to

the Governor in my Favour which was of Singular Service

to me. ' Sir, Since my Return from your House, I have attended close at M". Silvesters Office, to acquaint myself with the Formalities

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& proceedings of the Court, have got my Licence, & qualified last Tuesday, am come to Schenectady, with a Design to settle: & should be glad to have it in my Power to serve you or any of your Friends. all from Honorable Sir ° your most humle, & obe'4. servt. Witiiam Hanna!

MR. JOHN ARBO, SECY TO THE MORAVIANS TO SIR WM. JOHNSON.

g Bethlehem the 6t" Januar. 1768. ir

The high and important Station in which the Providence of GOD and our Gracious Sovereign have placed You, together with Your well known benevolent Disposition towards the Indians in general, occasions my Addressing Your Excellency at this Time.

1 Rev. Waiite Hanna, the first) Presbyterian clergyman at Albany, was educated at the Revd. Dr. Finley's Academy at Nottingham in Maryland; he next was assistant at Rev. Dr. Robert Smith's School at Pequea, Pennsylvania, and graduated at Princetown College. In 1759 he received the degree of A. B from Kings College, New York, and that of Master'of Arts, in 1765, from the same institution. He was licensed to preach by the Litchfield Presbytery, Connecticut, 28 May, 1760. He became pastor of the Presbyterian Church organised for the first time in Albany in 1762, of which congregation he continued pastor for the space of about five years.