Kirkland being now in town & attending the Commis- || sioners & inform'g them. That he had lately seen S' William | and had related to him those passages in his Journal to. which the vote of the Board and the Governors letter in consequence | thereof referred ; and had likewise acquainted him, that the whole of the matters which he had laid before the Board, he had | represented as coming from the Indians ; which likewise appears from the Journal itself. And Sir William having express'd to M'. Kirkland his desire for the success of the Mission, the Board now think it proper to desire the Governor to give their thanks to Sir William for his kind expressions of. regard contained both in his Letter to the Governor & in conversation with Mr. Kirkland: and to desire the countenance of his favour and encouragement to the Mission.

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SIR WM. JOHNSON TO REVD MR. KIRTLAND,

DEMANDING A COPY OF HIS REPORT TO THE BOSTON COMMITTEE. Johnson hal] Augt 22¢ 1771. Sir,

T have just received a Letter from Gov" Hutchinson inclosing some papers from the Committee at Boston for propagating Christ» faith, they relate toa Journal you have lately transmitted to them, The particulars of which are not ment I must desire to know from you what was the occasion of your Writing, & that you will send me the whole particulars as I am given to understand, that it contained some Representations, that

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