Your last favor was so long by the Way that I have scarcely had leisure to give your Memorial a perfect reading as my son & Col: Johnson were going for N York, I thought it the best opportunity I could have for returning it safe to y™ hands and for the same reasons shall omit.some particulars which otherwise I should have enlarged upon. I am yastly pleased with y? Work & I do assure you that It was with great satisfaction I found so many Important heads which would each In my opinion have filled a pamphlet completely, & Clearly discussed in a few sheets. .

From the Indulgence you have given me I must however observe to you, that, In the plan for the Indians Conversion I

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cannot think it safe to admit either Husbandmen or Mechanicks I believe I formerly assigned some reasons for this my opinion which were principally founded on the Jealousy of the Ind* to this I might have added some reasons of equal Weight, for which I now refer you to Col: Johnson, and therefore shall only add, that If you can take away all that regards that head the remainder will perfectly Express my Sentiments and wishes. That part I am persuaded must have appeared to you Extreamely necessary, and but for some causes which few are acquainted with It would have been so. Iam not under the apprehension that you will condemn my freedom in pointing out this, for I shall allways treat you with that Candor which is due to Your merit and friendship. I send herewith a Letter to Lord Hillsboro' wherein I have endeavored to do some Justice to your Work, which at the same time obliged me to Introduce you as the author, Tho' this was but an Act of Justice T had sev! other good reasons for it, and the work can be very Easily adapted to that Circumstance.