Inglis, & M* Ogilviee and if the good Rector and the rest of the very respectable Clergy of your City should approve of the thing and would allow of Contributions being given in their Churches on a Christmas Day or any other Time that would be tho't most Proper, which from their Example might and IJ verily believe would become general throughout the Colonies; by which means a larg Fund might be established for the Purpose of founding a Seminary amongst the 6 Nations. which after a regular and well digested Plan might be laid before the Public by St William who you are sensible is extreamly capable of doing it; who assured me at Amaganseth Long from whence I am just returned after having had the Pleasure & satisfaction of spending near a Week with Sir

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W™ and his Nephew M* Dease a regular bred Physician who besides the Advantages of a very genteel & learned Education in Ireland has studied under the most able Professors in France for 5 years there are two other Gen in St Williams Retenue viz Mt Daily a very genteel well bred Person, and M* Adams who has' been with 8S: W™ ever since his first coming to America. The good Baronite observed that if your answer to my Letter which (shall communicate to him, agreeable to his desire) should it succeed agreeable to my Wishes (and should meet with that favourable Reception that I flatter my self it will,) He would push the affair with Gov' Tryon, Gov" Franklin, & Gov Penn to his utmost all three of the Gov's I am well assured would take very particular Pleasure in obliging S' W™ out of a personal Regard to him and St William might with the utmost Propriety ask it as those very Indians have been by his Influence over them the means not only of saving this Country but of Conquering Canada.