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

Your answer to the above Proposal is Desird By Jacob Ws Johnson Minister of Christ & Missionary to the Onoida Indians & others. .

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HUGH GAINE TO SIR WM JOHNSON,

CONCERNING THE INDIAN PRAYER BOOK. Sir

Your favour of the 12th ultimo from Fort Stanwix, is now before, which I should have answered much Sooner, had JT not well known you were deeply ingaged in Business of greater consequence to your Country, and I rejoice to hear you have so happily succeeded in the same.