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

by many Noblemen and Gentlemen in Europe, as well as by | many charitably disposed People in America.--and much Labour and cost have been already expended to fit and qualify a number both English and Indians for Missionaries and .School-Masters among their several Tribes who are now or will soon be ready to enter upon their respective services, if suitable doors should daughters. After having passed evenly through the troubles of the revolution, in which he manifested very little interest, and arriving at an advanced age, he laid down to rest in 1814. The following is a copy of the inscription on a slab in St.

George's Church, Schenectady :--

3n Memory of JOHN W. BROWN Who departed this life, June 30 1814; aged 87 years.

A native of GREAT BRITAIN Came to Schenectady 1748; Where he remained untill his death; The founder and steady friend of this CHURCH.

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be opened for their improvement therein. Some attempts have * also been already made among the Onoidas, and not without some encouraging Prospect that, their Lives and Manners may be soon formed to rules of decency, civility and religion.--Some endeavors have also been used by your Memorialists the last spring to introduce Missionaries and School-Masters among the Onondagas and Tuscaroras, which proposal they appeared to approve ; but suspended their full determination to comply with it; till they could have the concurrence of their Brethren of | other Tribes therein.