Your Excellency having receiv'd a Letter lately from the tev' Dr E, Wheelock as also seen his Instructions for propegateing the Gospel among the Indss &c. Pursuant wherunto These are humbly to desire & importune your Excellency, That in as much as your Excellency hath been pleased more publicly, & privately to manifest an approbation, & goodliking to the Drs plan, and laudable design of propegateing the glorious Gospel among the Ind®s, under your Excellencies Superintendency : so your Excellency would please Still to countenance, & encourage the truely noble design. And in order to prosecute the same to effect, that your Excellency (as a tender Father to these perishing Indians) Ww ould be pleased, of your most generous & benevolent disposition, 80 to befriend their cause, aS to prevent their setting themselves off from their Lands ; therby to frusterate the afors¢ design of propegateing the Gospel among them, which undoubtedly will be the Sad consequence of their so doing, that this efiect may not hap'en, your Excellency is humbly desir'd to restrict the Bounds of the respective Provinces, that they may not be extended So far North & west, as to'cut off the Lands & Inheritances of the Natives : but that they possess & enjoy them for their own private Temporal use; and that more Sacred benefit of propegateing the knowlege of the great Saviour of the - world among them, that so, by the Grace of God, they may have a further Becsoctanity of a more general offer of the Gospel to them. And for this end, that your Excellency would be pleased to recommend, out of your clemency, and goodness, the above design of propegateing the Gospel among them, To the Heads & Chiefs of the Nations that may be present. at this "Congress And finally, that we may have an oppertunity, by order of your Excellency, to lay the same before the Heads & chiefs that may be here.