Honé Sir I Received your Interesting Letter, which I immediately Communicated the contents which regards the Church to the Vestry which made us all very happy, but as we want words to Express our gratefull Sentiments to you as we ought we must be silent we shall instantly sett about finishing the Church, tho I fear it will be too late in the season to Plaister the walls. According to order I have sent 1 Barrell of Rusk Branded on the Head E B which I hope is come safe to hand and am with the most gratefull Respect Hon¢ Sir Your most Obliged Hum?! Servant

J W Brown.! To Sir William Johnston Barnet.

1 We learn from Mr. L, H. Willard of Union College, that Jonn W, Brown was born in the year 1727; he came to this country from London and settled in Schenectady in 1748. He married a Miss Wemple, and left one son and two

388 PAPERS RELATING TO MEMORIAL OF REVD. MR. WHEELOCK.

To Their Excellencies Sir William Johnsen Baronet Superintendent of Indian Affairsin North America, Sir Henry Moore Esquire Governor of the Province of New York, Benjamin Franklin Esquire Governor of the Province of New Jersey and John Penn Esquire Deputy Governor of Pennsylvania, now convened at Fort Stanwix. The Memorial of Eleazer Wheelock of Lebanon in the Colony of Connecticut, Founder and Director of the Indian Charity School in-said Colony, humbly sheweth.

That said School was founded with a single view to promote the knowledge of the only true God, and our common Salvation, especially among the Savages of this Land; thereby to deliver them from their present miseries, make them good Members of Society, loyal Subjects to our rightful Sovereign, and especially cordial subjects to the King of Zion. and the Plan has sihce been well approved, and the School generously endowed by the Liberalities of his present Majesty King George the third, and