Know Ye That Whereas The Rev4 Dr Eleazer Wheelock of Lebanon in the Colony of Connecticut in New England Minister of Jesus Christ is about to Set up a College or Great School for the benefit of the Indians which generous & good design is favourd by your Royal Father the King of Great Britain The Ear] of Dartmouth together with many wise as well as great & good men And a place is now Searching out whearon to set up sd College and many great offers made in Lands & Monies wherwith to endow s4 College in several of the neighbouring English Goverments but no place resolv'd upon as yet to set up sd College.--

These are therfore to ask of you Fathers & Brethren if it be your minds and what you would choose to appropriate & devote acertain tract of your Land or country for this great & good purpose on or near The Mohawk River or wherever you in your Wisdom may think most convenient of such extent and worth as may be sufficient with what monies & other Benefactions & Charities may be given to endow s4 College That it may be of a most Public & extensive use & benefit to the several Nation of Indians And this proposal is made with no view to acqnire your Lands for any private use of any person or persons no Fathers & Brethren we dont want your Lands for ourselves but for this most public use & benefit to the Indian Nations if it shall be your Desire to have it set upon your Country rather than on the English ground and upon a Representation made herof to the Honle & Respectable Board of Trust in Great Britain They shall think it more expedient & better upon all views & considerations to set it in your Country rather than on the English Ground