O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. IV. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1851.

On the 15th January following he resigned his office as public printer and after a lingering illness, which had for some time rendered him incapable of business, he died in New York on the 18th July 1768. It appears by one of the letters in this series, that he died bankrupt. Ep. * The Journal of the Assembly of the Prov. of New York for the Session of 1766, being …

That a tract of land, about fifteen or twenty miles square, or so much as shall be sufficient for four townships, on the west side of Susquehanna River, or in some other place more convenient, in the heart of the Indian country, be granted, in favor of this School. The said townships be peopled with a chosen number of inhabitants of known honesty, integrity, and such as love …

That those towns be furnished with ministers of the best characters, and such as are of ability, when incorporated with a number of the most understanding of the inhabitants, to conduct the affairs of the school, and of such missions as they shall have oceasion and ability for, from time to time. That there be a sufficient number of laborers upon the lands belonging to the …

And that there be a moderate tax upon all the granted lands, after the first ten or fifteen years, and also some duty upon mills, &c. which shall not be burdensome to the inhabitants, for the support of the school, or missionaries among the Indians, &c. By this mean much expence, and many inconveniences occasioned by our great distance from them, would be prevented, our …

I am with sincerest duty and esteem May it please your Excellency your Excellency's most obedient and most humble servant, ELEAzZAR WHEELOCK. 330 PAPERS RELATING TO SIR WM. JOHNSON TO THE REY. DR. BARCLAY. CONCERNING THE INDIAN PRAYER BOOK, Johnson Hall Apr! 29th 1763 Sir, T have been favored with yours of the 12th inst. which needed no Apology as I never in the least doubted …

REV. MR. WHEELOCK TO SIR WM. JOHNSON. Hartford May 16th 1'763 Sir, May it please your Honour, Ireceived last Evening a Paper with your Seal inclosing a Letter to Joseph from his Sister 3' wrote, I suppose in the Mohawk Language ; and by which he informs me, he is ordered to come directly home; that the Indians are displeased with his being here at School, that they don't like …

And inasmuch as there was nothing wrote to me manifesting your Pleasure in the Affair, I presume your Honour did not know the Contents of the Inclosed though it came under your Seal ; and how to conduct in the Affair Iam at a great Loss--Mr Smith is now gone to New York &c to prepare for his Mission ; I expect him back soon, and if he comes & finds Joseph gone, whom he depends …

Nor have I any intimation of any valuable End that may be served by his going before the Time proposed--And as Joseph desires to put himself under your Honour's Conduct, as what he apprehends most safe & prudent for him to do, so I. should be glad your Honour would as explicitly as you please let me know your Pleasure, And upon the whole think it advisable to detain Joseph (if …

The design is a very commendable one, and I should be extremely happy in having it in my power, to be any ways instrumental in civilizing the Indians, and promoting seminaries of learning in this country ; but as the disposal and settlement of the conquered lands in America must be determined by His Majesty, and that there is reason to beleive the same is now under …

Cornelius Bennet, Catechist to the Mohawk Indians, inclosed in a letter from the Revd. Mr. Apthorp, dated 12 March, 1764, we learn that Mr. Bennet has entered upon the work of instrueting the Indians, and has a fine company of children under his care, who are very orderly and ingenious. They hear prayers morning and evening, learn to read English, are. catechised in the Mohawk …

I have not time to write to M* Bennet now but shall as soon as I have a certain acctt of the State of Things amongst the Indians. If he ventures, I shall comply with my proposal as to Lodging and Board, till such Time as I conclude a Bargain with Sir William Johnson who is treating with me for my Farm, fora Glebe for the Indian Missionary, as I have before informed you please …

Apthorp recommends him to the continuance of the Societies Favour as a person well, qualified for the service he has undertaken." Rev. Mr. East Apthorp was the Society's Missionary at Cambridge, Mass., which charge he resigned at the date of the. above letter, and returned to England, were he died in1816- Mr, Bennet did not continue long among the Mohawks, for his name does …

I send a 24 Proof to be revised by you.--I apprehend ye Corrections on our Side be not so exact as I could wish.--Please to peruse it a 24 Time.--We are put to prodigious Difficulty to print such Language (in form) in North America, where we have . hot the Command of a Letter-Maker's founding-House to suit ourselves in y® particular Sorts required, such as--p's--k's--y's …

1 Esenrzer Punprrson, graduated at Yale Coll. in 1726, and was a Congregational Minister at Groton, Conn. He conformed to the Church of England about the year 1732. Having received orders in London in 1734, he organized a congregation, on his return, in Norwich, at the village of Poquetanuck about the year 1738. His name appears on the Society's lists as ' Itinerant Missionary …

The good opportunity I have by M« William Seeber my friend, gives me encouragement to trouble your Honour with these few Lines, to beg the favour of sending me by him a bottle of brandy & some Raisins, which your Honour would have send long ago, if you had a good opportunity, as I am resolved to Trye that Cure with old Peer, I have drank this 4 weeks an ugly Drink of what the …

Cloathing & my house is vere cold & most open, & so poor in cash &c: that I can not for this time supply this Want, your Honour would oblige your old faithfull Servant, if you would Trust him a cupple new planckets for making a new, warm Coat, to cover his Cold sick poor body, till he shall turn wel or able to Do Your Honour satisfaction for them. 336 PAPERS RELATING TO I …

Finally do I wish your Honour & the whole your Noble Family a blessed & happy Exodum to this-most Ended year, & a prosperous Transitum & over step into the New year near by, The God of heaven & Eart Grant your Honour upon a New His Godly Patronage, favour Mercy, Wisdom, Strength & all Requisita, with which he has been pleased to Endow your Person this Manny Years to the best …

I had not heretofore the honour to be acquainted with the English Nation. Born in the midst of France without being natural Subject of the French King, I had hitherto hardly known any but Frenchmen. But how truly can I affirm that Inever have seen in any one of them, any thing that approach in the least, of or Like that noble generosity, (or the great characteristick of the …

These generous proceeding have so far gained Upon me, that Ihave not hesitated on moment, but Gave general Amherst all the knowledge and Lights, which my Stay in Canada, and my connections, Especially, with the late French generals, have enabled me to procure. These papers are of the utmost consequence, Yowll Judge thereof on their Titles. You shall hereafter be acquainted …

Nation in Acadia, and the other among the Six Nations. I show therein the means, and at the same time declare the Immense Benefit, that would Accrue to the British commerce, from this kind of Transmigration. Jam so bent for that same, that if canada be restored to the French, and Gener! Amherst, from whom I daily Expect an Answer to some former Letter, don't give me a Call, I …

If these papers concerned you in the least, I would gladly transmit them to you, but I could not very soon comply, because, besides the Extraordinary length of the contents of these papers, Iam now busy in completing the canadian Code of Civil law, but I should have remitted you indeed the discourse to General Amherst, wherein Are contained many Anecdotes relating to the …

Indians cannot set out for your place these ten days, poverty hath lengthened their hunting Season, and is the real cause of this delay ; which Excuse, I pray you to accept for your self, and to cause it, to be accepted of also, by the Loups and the Six Nations. They will on return bring me your Answer and what may be your pleasure in regard to what I have had the honour to …

I dare to subjoin, Sir, that I am not all together Unworthy, and that if I merit such distinction, I merritt it by these sentiments of respect devotion and atttachment, which will End with my Life. This is my way of thinking. it is the heart that dictates all I write, therefore pardon my spinning this Letter to such unusuall length. When the heart is Engaged with a person …

I am very certain that some take great Delight in having their children instructed, and taught to read and write, and for such I shall use more than common zeal to perform the Trust in me reposed. I wish you could send me two of our printed Books, for I want them very much for two of my Scholars that are pretty fur advanced in their Learning. please to send them with my Father …

Your Excellency's request with Regard to the Indian Prayer Book, I can only answer by saying That the long Indisposition and Death of Dr Barclay (which since yé writing of yours no doubt you heard of ) put a total Stop to its Progress, more than you have now inclosed, it not being in our Power to revise or correct it at any Rate ; so that 'twill require your appointment of …

y® Language much since his Call here ; and partly had forgot it, but was determined to do his best--adding withal, That there was some Gentleman (he mentioned his name to me but I forgot it) who had a more perfect Copy than his, and who understood y® Language at this time better than he did ;--I think he told me it was your Son, or one by ye Name of Claus, or Closser who then …

1 Samson Occom, an Indian clergyman, was born at Mohegan, near Norwich, Conn., in the year 1723. He was the first Indian pupil educated at Lebanon, by the Rev. Mr. Wheelock, with whom he entered in 1742, at the age of 19, and remained with him 4 years. In 1748 he taught school in New London, and about the year 1755, went to the east end of Long Island, where he opened a school …

But when M'. Occum came to N. York and heard that you was got Home, he was thereupon advised to return, and accordingly did so ; by which Means I was prevented such a supply of proper youth for this school as I hoped he, with your assistance, and Direction, might obtain from Tribes more remote than I have yet had. Which Disappointment is, in part, the occasion of the present …

On Occum's return he labored among his countrymen, and removed eventually in 1786 to Brotherton, near Utica, N. Y., whither many Mohegans and Montauks accompanied him, and where he died in July 1792, aged 69. He was accompanied to the grave by upwards of 300 Indians. An account of the Indians of Montauk, by Occum, is published in the Mass: Hist: Coll. He pub: lished a sermon …

Smith, on his return to his previous post at the Susquehannah river, but he fell sick at Cherry Valley, and died in the course of the same year. He is represented as of an amiable disposition and polished manners.--Ep. THE SIX NATIONS. 343 Sioners in Boston, for an English Education. If Your Honr advises to any, or all of these, and they may be obtained, I will take them, or …

Kirtland can inform you. I look upon myself in particular, as well as, upon my country in general, to be much indebted to Your Honour for Your indefatigable and (hitherto) successful Labors, to establish a Peace with the Natives, upon a sollid and lasting Foundation. May God requite Your Labour and Fatigue with that peace which is the peculiar privilege of his chosen. I am …

She was kind to forward it down to me this Day ; and I now inelose it, imagining, (unless yonr Excellency has some Gentleman here to undertake its Inspection) that its being transcribed in a very fair legible Hand under your own hye, and by ye Assistance of your Son's Copy, the Book can still be finished ; as, by being transmitted to me, in a fair Manuscript, or other plain …

A very laudable Spirit for promoting the Welfare of this Colony, begins to prevail here--A Society is already formed, consisting of Persons of all Ranks, who propose to advance husbandry, promote Manufactures, and suppress Luxury--Several Hundred Pounds are already subscribed, and paid into the Hands of Mr. John Vanderspiegel, the Treasurer--Other necessary Officers are …

As diffusing a Zeal for this Undertaking throughout the Province, will probably be attended with the most beneficial Effects, permit us to urge you to Form a Society in your Neighbourhood, to meet as often as they conveniently can, to correspond with us, and to furnish us with useful Hints relative to what may be proper to fall under the Society's Notice ; and particularly …

You may be assured that I shall think myself happy In any opportunity of promoting the Welfare of this Province, & of encouraging as far as in me lyes a laudable Spirit for that purpose, which can not be better effected than by the Suppression of Luxury & the promoting Husbandry and Manufactures, the former has not as yet crept in to the parts where my Interest & acquaintance …

I am far from thinking the suppression of Luxury, an unnecessary article, on the Contrary I most earnestly wish that the people of America may be prevailed upon to live with» the bounds prescribed by their Rank & fortune, and so far as that it would give me great' pleasure to support the undertaking as well as to encourage Husbandry in all its branches. And altho' I am …

The Nature of my Department likewise affordsme little time to advert to matters of this nature which I presume you will readily allow when I assure you that so far from having leisure to attend to any domestic concerns, I cannot command the ordinary hours, of refreshment amply enjoyed by every Labourer in the province, & tho' I might give myself more Ease I could not do so …

I shall do the Duty at Albany on Sunday next ; but propose being at the Mohock Castle the Sunday following. shall therefore be obliged to you to acquaint the Indians of it. As for News we expect all from you; we are quit dull & stupid inthis Place. I see you laugh & say to y"self when was you otherwise. However the Weather being Dull & Heavy I think it add's to my dullness …

The state of Agriculture in this country is very low, and in short likely to remain so to the great Detriment of the Province, which might otherwise draw many resources from so extensive and valuable a Country, but the turn of the old settlers here is not much calculated for improvement, content with the meer Necessaries of Life, they don't chuse to purchase its superfluities …

If afew of the Machines made use of for the breaking of hemp was distributed amongst those who have Land proper for the purpose it might give rise to the culture of it--or if one only properly constructed was sent as a model, it might Stir up a spirit of Industry amongst them, but Seed is greatly wanted, & Cannot be procured in these parts, and the Germains (who are the most …

I have formerly had pease very well split at my mills, and I shall set the same forward amongs't the people as far as I can, I have Likewise sent for Collections of many Seeds, and usefull grasses which I shall Encourage them to raise, and from the great wants of stock, even for home use, & Consumption, I am doing all I can to turn the intention of the inhabitants to raising …

Before I set the Examples, no farmer on the Mohock River ever raised so much asa single Load of Hay, at present some raise above one Hundred, the like was the case in regard to sheep, to which they were intire strangers until I introduced them, & I have the Satisfaction to see them at present possess many other articles, the result of my former Labors for promoting their …

Your Excellency's Favour of February 19th by David and Peter came safe to Hand. I thank your Excellency most heartily for all your Condescension, and repeated Favours shown me ; and particularly, for your love for, and kindness to, my dear Mr Kirtland. I have been concerned, lest, through the Zeal and Vigour of his youth, the natural Sprightliness of his Genius, and …

We expect to have Opportunity to recommend to your Excellency's favourable Notice, two likely young Gentlemen, in the capacity of Missionaries, this spring ; and three young Indians of this School, in the capacity of school masters. I purpose also, that all your five first Boys shall come home this Spring, or by some Time in June, to visit their Friends, and return to me in …

I think it will be a great Pity if Party Names, and circumstantial Differences, in Matters of Religion, should by any Means obstruct the Progress of this so great and important Design of Gospelizing the Heathen. Please to let the Parents of these Boys, know, that they are all well ; and also inform them of their proposed Visit to them. I hope your Excellency will be able to …

She not only threw open her private residence to, but built chapels in various parts of England for the accommodation of their followers, and erected a college in Wales for the education of persons intended for the Ministry. She was the patroness of Occum whilst he remained in England, and not only hospitably entertained him in her house but introduced him to the notice of …

I have pitied you on account of your wordly poverty, but much more on account of the perishing case your precious souls are in, without the knowledge of the only true God and Saviour of Sinners. I have prayed for you daily for more than thirty years, that a way night be opened to send the gospel among you, and you be made willing to receive it. And I hope God is now answering …

After I had educated Mt Occum, and saw no other way to help the perishing Indians, there being no door open to send missionaries among them, I determined on setting up an Indian School to teach their Children, that when they had got their learning, they might return home, and in their own language teach their brothers, sisters and friends the way of Salvation by Jesus Christ …

me to help forward the great design of Christianizing the Indians, have examined them, and recommend two of them with Joseph Woolly, to be school masters, where they can find the Indians willing to have their children taught: the other six, though they can read and write well enough to teach a school, yet we think they are too young to be masters. We are afraid your children …

Two ministers are coming to you from my schoo , who are sent to you by the commissioners, and they are men of learning, have had a liberal education, and are able to teach you the way of salvation by Christ. And they love you much; they do not come to get money, nor to get away your lands, nor to cheat or wrong you in any thing, but only todo you good. And you may depend upon …

In June, 1761, he accompanied Sampson Occom to the Oneidas and returned in August with three Indian youths. He was approved as an Indian teacher in March, 1765, and set out accordingly for the Oneida Nation on*the 29th of April. He shortly after wrote Dr. Wheelock the following letter from his new residence :-- '«Kanayarohare, in Oneida, June 15, 1765. '« Honored and Rey. Sir …

I hope you will be kind to him as one of your-own people, and help him to live among you. I hope you will help him to get a house, and let him have some of your land to plant and sow; and he will, besides teaching your children, help and instruct you in managing husbandry ; which you must learn if you expect God will increase your number, and build you up, and make you his …

They take great pleasure in learning to sing. We can already carry three parts of several tunes. I am well contented to live here, so long as Iam in such great business. I believe I shall persuade the men in this castle, at least the most of them, to labour next year. They begin now to see, that they could live better if they cultivated their lands, than they do now by hunting …

And after man had sinned, God told him he should get his living by the sweat of his face, and he has commanded us in the fourth commandment to work six days in the week. And often in his word testified his displeasure against those who will not work for a living. This earth is all God's land, and he will have it all cultivated. So long as there are not people enough to inhabit …

And when your game is gone, you will not have occasion to remove to another place, or to go a great way to catch wild creatures to live upon as Indians have been forced to do; but you will live as well without them as with them, by the produce of your own farms. And then you will be under circumstances to have ministers and schoo] masters settled among you ; and will be able …

I thank you for the kindness, which some of you have shewn to my dear M' Kirkland, whom I sent into your country last fall. His heart is bent todo good to the Indians. He denies himself all the pleasure and honors which he might have here among his friends, only to do you good. JI hope you will continue your kindness to him, and treat him as my child. I hope God will make him …

The Bearer, David Fowler, has been for some Time in this School ; and is a youth of good Abilities, whose activity & Prudence, Fortitude & Honesty have much recommended him to _ me. He comes with Design if he meets with proper encouragment to settle down among the Oneyada's (unless some other place more inviting presents) in the capacity of a School Master; and also {so far as …

If M' Kirtland's Conduct, in Indian Affairs, has been agreable to you, and the Prospect of his usefulness be such as is worthy Encouragment, a Recommendation from vour Excellency would be of great service therein. I conclude you have seen in the public Prints, the Resolves of this Board of Corrispondents on the 12' ult, to send severel Missionaries, and School Masters into …

Mr John Smith Mercht in Boston is going to England in May or June, who will be employed in the affair so far.as may be consistant with his Business and Character, if no Clergyman can be obtained for that purpose. And a Recommendation of the Affair to Gentlemen at Home, by your Excellency, may be of very great service to the Furtherance of it, and likely of much greater service …

Joun Brainerp was brother tothe celebrated David B. and like him an Indian Missionary. He graduated in Yalein1746. His labours were chiefly among the Indians of New Jersey. He died in 1780. 358 PAPERS RELATING TO And that Almighty God may support you under all your Toil & Labours for your King & Country, and late, very late, reward the same with himself is the Prayer of, May …

The Sachem knew nothing of their Sending yt large belt for Provisions &c. was surprised to hear of their unreasonable demands. The Sachem and several others do really appear friendly. in general they treat me with no more respect than they would shew to a dog--but this is equal to me. I believe a little more Provision than I'm like to get here, will be necessary for my …

Could I have a plenty of fresh venison & bears flesh, I would do without bread, ye staff of Life. but to have little of either & ye most of y' little rotten, I think may be call'd coarse fare. It was said in ye ancient puritanick times, yt man should not live by bread alone,--The Modern ages it seems have degenerated, especially in these parts, for we are like to be denied any …

I submit it wholly to your Excellency, whose direction and advice I esteem infinitely preferable to my own; also for whose former undeserved kindness and condesention, I desire to renew most humble thanks. . That Success & Prosperity may crown all your Excellency's undertakings. is ye sincere wish of him.--who is with greatest esteem Your Excellencys most obedient & obliged …

I am not acquainted with their Case only by common Fame and it has been often said that a number of that Tribe appear more spirited to cultivate their Lands, and live by the Produce of them, than heretofore they haye been, but that they are like to be prevented therein by a drunken Sachem who has got in Debt, and is selling their Lands fast to the English, Your Excellency no …

Tam obliged to write in utmost Hurry & Confusion or not embrace this Favourable opportunity of Conveyance which your Goodness will readily enough consider as an Excuse for what is so unfashionably offered by Honé Sir. Your Excellency's much obliged and most Obed! Humble Servant ELEAzAR WHEELOCK. Sir Wilim Johnson. SIR W. JOHNSON TO REV. THOMAS BARTON. Johnson Hall Nov« 7t4 …

In 1754, the Society for the Prop. of the Gospel, erected a Mission for the counties of York and Cumberland, Pa, and appointed Mr. Barton to it, he haying brought over with him, and laid before the Society a certificate from the Trustees and Professors of the Philadelphia Coll., that he had been more than two years employed as an assistant in that Institution, and discharged …

He continued thusa prisoner two years, and at last found himself under the necessity of leaving his family and parish, after a service of 20 years, and withdrawing to New-York, where he arrived in November, 1778. His long confinement to his house impaired his health, and brought "on a dropsy, under which he languished until the 25th May, 1780, when he yielded to his fate at …

Sir As the Congregation of the Church of England have come to a Resolution to petition his Excellency the Governor to grant them a Charter to Secure their Rights and privileges in the Church built here, they beg leave to lay their petition before you for your approbation, and likewise beseech you Sir to Honour them with an Acceptance of beeing one of the Trustees in the …

I wrote your Honour sometime past by Onuhsocktea & yetwo white men from Niagara,. weh I hope has come safe to hand.-- We have no news of consequence stiring among us at present. I've heard by some of ye Indians yt your Honour has had a very easy happy time thro' the winter--No Visiters no Company excepting Cap Monteur, no Letters from abroad. Nothing to do but to set down & …

I desire you wou'd consider ye present disposition & intention of my warriors to visit ye old Enemies yé Cherokee. you are well acquainted wth our ancient Customs & Traditions, yt ye late Breach in my family cant be fully made up in any other way. I know not wt your present stores are, nor how you are disposed towards these things. I ask only this yt you woud take it into …

I have been at much Expence for what is done, and assure myself of your consideration of ye Affair. I shall wait your Motion with Pleasure ;--No doubt occurrences prevented its farther Progress with you. The Reverend M* Ogilvie, who is now Curate here, will no doubt undertake its Correction, if you doubt my Carefulness from sticking close to a legible Copy ; and, I think, Sir …

The affair is of so much importance, that it claims our most serious and deliberate consideration, and the little time allowed from the speedy return of Mr. does not permit us to send our proposals by him: we shall however embrace the earliest opportunity to convey them to you, and we hope that when you get them, they will be such as will meet with your approbation, and merit …

I gratefully acknowledge the Receipt of Your Excelleys Favour by David Fowler--I much regrett the loss of Goak, who, as David and others inform me, was a man of great Consequence, both with respect to their religious, and Secular Interest. And I am indeed much affected with the accot (which you referr me to David for) of the occasions given to several Tribes to revive their …

M' Kirtland seems inclined to take McCluer to Onoyada with him; But whether the learning of that Language will be of such Consequence as that it will be worth his spending his Time for it, Your Excellency is best able to judge. I have thought it might be best for Joseph Johnson, who is a Mohegan,? and is too young to have the government of a school, to be employed, as an Usher …

On his return to Pittsburgh from this, what turned out to be a fruitless mission, he spent seven months among the scattered white settlements in Western Penn. In the summer of 1774, in company with Messrs. Dean and others, he visited the Canada Indians. During, and for some time after the revolution, he was minister of Northampton, N. H., and in 1786 removed to East Windsor …

He was afterwards licensed to preach among the Six Nations, and was very faithful to the American cause during the revolution. It is said that he was not inferior to Samson Occum as a Preacher. Axren. See also Wheelock's Narrative, 1775. 3 Jacoz Fowzer, a Montauk Indian was born in 1750. He was approved asa Teacher in 1765, and taught for several years after among the Six …

They will also be able to acquaint you with the favourable Reception, Mess's Whittaker & Occum, & the Design they Recommend, meet with at Home ; and the Prospect I have of any Favour I can reasonably desire from the Board of Trade, if only the Place for the School was once determined. and as J would act in every step agreable to your mind, for I apprehend you are ahle above …

William (Major as we call him for distinction sake) is a very good Genius, and capable of making a very likely man; but his Pride and the Violence of his Temper have sometimes rendered him troublesome ; and obliged me to use severity with him, of which my son can inform you perhapsa Line or Message from You might be of Special service to him. I ordered him. to write a few …

I have the Honour of y's of the 10 Instant pr master Peter, wherein I find no particular Instructions in Regard to his schooling, conclude therefore that you leave him to me on that Head. Depend on it I shall take the same care of him in every Respect as my own Child. I shall be prepared to meet his Excellency y'self & the rest of the Fraternity on the earliest notice. My …

I acknowledge Rev4 Sir that the Fact mention'd in their Report is too notoriously conterary to the Practices of Christians of every Denomination to gain Credit amongst any but Indians and the most ignorant and crudilous Part of the white People, confident therefore that this Report is intirely Groundless I have thought it imprudent to apply to any Gentleman to have it refuted …

The Prudence of this Measure the Advantage it gives to the common cause of Christianety and its utility to the Nation so far as we consider the natinal Interest as connected with the scheme christinising the Heathen in these Parts must appear to every considerate Person upon the least Reflection but if the forementiond Report obtains we are obviously under a Necessity either …

You may depend upon it Sir that Iam disposd to treat every man in a christian Manner who act like a Christian and to use them with all that Deference and Respect which either their Age or Carracter or any Distinction can claim from me and shall therefore be entirely silent about the above Report till I see whether an Answer to my Request is to be expected from you and after …

** THEoPHILUS CHAMBERLAIN was ordained at Lebanon, on 24 April, 1765, and set out on the 19th June following for the country of the Six Nations. He established several schools among the Mohawks, visited the Oneydas, made a tour among the Onondagas, and preached to them. He returned to Lebanon in October, accompanied by two Oneida youths to be placed under Dr. Wheelock's …

Lyne--when in New York waited on his Excellency to know the result of our _ petition, and we have the pleasure of hearing that it was laid before the Council where it met with a favourable reception, agreeable to which the Charter will shortly be sent up with his Excellencies subscription money and Church furniture. Mr Lyne has also procured a Clerk to officiate in the Church …

I never doubted may it please your Hont but that his Exelency the Govenor had a Right to ask and obtain M* Browns assistance in Conferring his Name upon whome he pleasd and this without transgressing the strictest Rules of Christianity, and was far from thinking that his Exelency or any Gentleman in the Civil Government would interpose his authority with a clergyman to oblige …

I mentiond the Presence of his Exelency the Govenor, the Honle Sir William Johnson and other Gentlemen and the Indians with no other view than to give the Report the airs with which I several Times heard it told not suspecting that the Letter would be proposed to any one as what was designed to fault the conduct of my Rulers, for to this I dont give myself.a License in any …

They beg of me to return with them to Barrington for a Sunday, but as my Duty call's me to the - Mohawks cannot think of going without your consent. A Line from yon will Determine the Case. I hope you will not let yr Foridness for master Peter keep him too long from his Studies as a misapplication of his Time will make him forget what he has learnt. Jam S* with Respect - | y« …

ethem in this Life: You are therefore to look for your Reward where the most of Good Benifectors have done before you, viz in Heaven ; But can assure you, that I*bear a sincere & grateful Sense of your Kinnesses in my Breast & shall never forget them while I am mindful of myself: particularly your last Letter to the Governor in my Favour which was of Singular Service to me. ' …

Robert Smith's School at Pequea, Pennsylvania, and graduated at Princetown College. In 1759 he received the degree of A. B from Kings College, New York, and that of Master'of Arts, in 1765, from the same institution. He was licensed to preach by the Litchfield Presbytery, Connecticut, 28 May, 1760. He became pastor of the Presbyterian Church organised for the first time in …

Auchmuty's letter (post) of the 11th June 1771, thought it would not do for them to recommend him for ordination, but suggested his application to Lord Baltimore. He thereupon proceeded to Morylaikt and having been furnished with letters to Col. Washington and other leading gentlemen of Virginia, he went next to the latter Colony. His reception, here, was so favorable that he …

True it is, the Troubles and Calamities attending the late Indian War, in which the Missionaries and their Converts met with such a Variety of Distress, Vicissitudes and Interruption in their Labours, as even threatened their total Extirpation ; Yet it has nevertheless pleased the Almighty GOD in his great Goodness, after very many of them had departed this Life in Faith and …

The first Vol: Containing a Description of the Country and the natural Curiosities of that cold Climate, I flatter myself, may not prove Unentertaining and the second, I imagine will convey to Your Excellency the truest and best Idea of the Brethrens Method of propagating the Gospel amongst the Savage Nations. For this Purpose also this History has been presented to their …

We had good hope that some of the more approved & experienced among the Clergy in your parts, who from their knowledge of the Indians, & their acquaintance in the neighbourhood, & especially from that countenance which you would naturally give them, might become -- likely to have the best Success, would not have been unwilling to have taken this appointment; especially when …

D., chancellor of the diocese of Oxford and Rector of St. Peter's Poor, London, was for many years Secretary to Dr. Secker, Archb. of Canterbury, to whose will he was also executor. He was raised to the dignity of Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, on 24th June, 1760, and in 1761 succeeded Dr. Bearcroft as Secretary to the Society for propagating the gospel, which office he held …

Since the Letter which the Mayor did Please to write you, our annul Election for the Aldermen and Assistants to serve in this Corporation having taken place and some other adventitious Circumstances Intervening have Concurred to delay our answer to your favour of the 27th August last, these being now happily removed we Embrace this oppertunity to answer your Letter It gives us …

Hind. WHarriot Burton, his only daughter, married (Aug. 15, i778,) the Hon. John, afterwards Lord, Trevor, Minister plenipotentiary to the diet at Ratisbon, in 1780, and to the court of Sardinia in 1788. This nobleman dying (1824) without, issue, the title is now extinct. Dr. Burton died on the 28d April, 1775. He, had the character of a very pious, sensible, diligent, careful …

them are all of distinguished Characters Emminent for Cherishing and Cultivating the Social Virtues their Circumstances and _ Situation in life such as sets them above the suspicion of sinister or selfish views, and the many oppertunitys they have had of being acquainted with our moral Character from the Frequent Intercourse with us Which their profession Necessarly engages …

THE SIX NATIONS. 379 are Inhabited by farmers whom if we may be allowed to Judge of their skill Industry and Occonomy from the affluence of their Circumstances acquired only by Husbandry, we shall not hesitate to rank them in the first class of husbandmen and as these Children will not require to be taught any other manual arts then such as will serve towards procureing the …

We have read your published account of the School since its beginning it has confirmed our opinion that your whole Conduct has been with a view to Promote religion and the happiness of . mankind may God In whose holy worship you are attempting to instruct the uninformed Savages Crown all your endeavors with success and Give you to see the accomplishment of your Good work and …

I amsorry that my unguarded manner of expressing myself in a former letter respecting the objection so often made against fixing my school in the vicinity of your City (viz the bad morals of the place) was received in any other light than was simply and honestly intended : my design was only to advice you, that such an objection had been frequently and strongly urged ; and to …

Ishall take the earliest opportunity to transmit your letters, to the Earl of Dartmouth &c, and also. Cap» Lansing's generous proposal at Stoneroby It gives me sensible pleasure Gentlemen that your sentiments are the same with mine as to the expediency and propriety of proceeding, only with the advice and approbation of the Earl of Dartmouth, and the other Worthy Gentlemen of …

cannot say, and how Gentlemen at home will have light to satisfie them, or what expedient they will think proper to obtain light. sufficient to act understandingly and safely in determining. the important point, I cant tell, I desire to do all on my part to be done, and submit it to and wait upon the Great Governor and disposer of all events to direct and determine the same …

I suppose, before now, William has again seen his Native Soil, & delivered you my last Letter--I had such Expectations from this Lad, that I am sorry I could not prevail upon him to stay & prosecute his Studies a little longer; but he got so uneasy at the violent Proceedings in these Parts, that he apprehended himself in Danger indeed no Wonder!--Some People here are grown so …

Now I humbly request the Favour of you to permit me to take this Plantation under my Care, and to sow one of the clear Fields untill it is claimed by, & wanted for the Use of the proper Owners--lI ask this Favour because the Land is convenient to me (being only seven miles from Lancaster,) and as Iliveinatown, where I-have no Land of my own near, & where Grain of every kind is …

The Hon>'e Sir William Johnson, Baronet. P.S. As it might give some Offence to the Proprietary Agents that this Application was not made to them, I would beg to receive the Favour I ask, as if from yourself, who thought it necessary that this Plantation should be put under the Care and Protection of some Person who lived near it--May I hope for an Answer as soonas your …

Our Congregation begs to know wether there is any reason to Expect M* Murray" soon here. if not if your Honour approves of it, we would give him an Invitation to come here, that if this place is agreeable to him and he to us. we will then Subscribe yearly as much as lies in our power for him, tho' IJ really think it will not exceed £40 this Currency but however if Mt Murray …

to the breaking out of the Revolution, when all the Episcopal Churches in Pennsylvania' were closed. .He withdrew to England, in1778. Ep. 2 Rev. AnprEw Bay was a native of Ireland, and emigrated to Maryland where he married a Miss Hall. He belonged originally to the Newcastle Presbytery. He succeeded Mr. Hanna as Presbyterian Minister in Albany which charge he filled for the …

Weyman's Papers after his Decease, a Number of the Sheets of the Indian Common Prayer that you employed him to print off, came to Hand, but ina very imperfect State: He had got as far as the 74th Page which completes only 9 sheets ; but as Part of several of the sheets are not to be found, the exact Number of each is as follows, viz _A - - 280 sheets Dit ae}? G - -- 400 B …

Bay's appeal, and after mature deliberation, confirmed that part of the Presbytery's judgment which dissolves the union between Mr. Bay and his congregation; and with respect to the latter part of said judgment, the Synod are of opinion, that it would, have been proper to have recommended to the parties, to leave the settlement of all matters respecting the glebe and its …

willing I should compleat the work, I am satisfied to abide by his. Ido suppose the Number he intended to print must have ~been 500; if so, and that Number must be completed, the whole must be done over again ; but if 400 would suffice, that Quantity could be compleated by only reprinting the Letters A & H. As this Matter entirely depends on you, whatever Orders you may think …

Having printed in his paper of Novy. 12, 1753, a part of the proceedings of the Assembly, he was brought to the bar of the House and reprimanded. He printed the Journals of the Assembly from 1691 to 1765, 2 y. fol., and in January 1768 succeeded Weyman as public printer. Sir Wm. Johnson, for whom he printed the Book of Common Prayer inthe Mohawk Tongue, patronized him, and in …

Vou. rv. 25 386 PAPERS RELATING TO SIR. W. JOHNSON TO HUGH GAINE. Johnson hall Sept 8th 1768. Sir I have Just received your Letter concerning the Indian prayer book,which was put into the late Mt' Weymans hands, The Multiplicity of business prevented my Writing to him About it for some time past, Tho' I heartily wish it was Completed. I cannot recollect whether M* Weyman was …

Neither do Iremember what were the conditions of our Agreement tho' to the best of my remembrance there was Something proposed in that way, but that so usefull a Work might not be Longer delayed, I should be glad you weuld inform me what would be the Expence of re-printing the Letters A. & H. so as to Complete 400 Copys (which I think may be sufficient) ina Good Legible …

"In this Size [which is marked on a Sheet of Paper,] it will make 20 Sheets in 4to, which on account of the Difficulty of the Tongue or Language, cannot be done for less that 36s per Sheet, and Sir William must pay for the Paper besides, which will be THE SIX NATIONS. 387 from 12s to 18s per Ream, and each Ream will scarcely make 450, the whole therefore will amount to £36 …

Honé Sir I Received your Interesting Letter, which I immediately Communicated the contents which regards the Church to the Vestry which made us all very happy, but as we want words to Express our gratefull Sentiments to you as we ought we must be silent we shall instantly sett about finishing the Church, tho I fear it will be too late in the season to Plaister the walls …

That said School was founded with a single view to promote the knowledge of the only true God, and our common Salvation, especially among the Savages of this Land; thereby to deliver them from their present miseries, make them good Members of Society, loyal Subjects to our rightful Sovereign, and especially cordial subjects to the King of Zion. and the Plan has sihce been well …

Some attempts have * also been already made among the Onoidas, and not without some encouraging Prospect that, their Lives and Manners may be soon formed to rules of decency, civility and religion.--Some endeavors have also been used by your Memorialists the last spring to introduce Missionaries and School-Masters among the Onondagas and Tuscaroras, which proposal they …

And he has therefore sent the Rev4 Ebenezer Cleaveland! and Mt Allen Mather on purpose to solicit your favour and assistance in this matter, by recommending to them the design of sending Missionaries and School-Masters among their several Tribes ; or by any other ways or means, which your great wisdom and prudence shall dictate--relying on your Candour and the Nature of the …

Your Excellency having receiv'd a Letter lately from the tev' Dr E, Wheelock as also seen his Instructions for propegateing the Gospel among the Indss &c. Pursuant wherunto These are humbly to desire & importune your Excellency, That in as much as your Excellency hath been pleased more publicly, & privately to manifest an approbation, & goodliking to the Drs plan, and laudable …

And in order to prosecute the same to effect, that your Excellency (as a tender Father to these perishing Indians) Ww ould be pleased, of your most generous & benevolent disposition, 80 to befriend their cause, aS to prevent their setting themselves off from their Lands ; therby to frusterate the afors¢ design of propegateing the Gospel among them, which undoubtedly will be …

And for this end, that your Excellency would be pleased to recommend, out of your clemency, and goodness, the above design of propegateing the Gospel among them, To the Heads & Chiefs of the Nations that may be present. at this "Congress And finally, that we may have an oppertunity, by order of your Excellency, to lay the same before the Heads & chiefs that may be here. And in …

Davin Avery, after his return from Fort Stanwix, graduated at Yale College and went in 1771 to preach to the Indians on Long Island. He was ordained at Hanover 29th August 1771 as assistant to the Revd Mr. Kirtland at Oneida whither he immediately proceeded. After spending a year there he was obliged to abandon the Mission, in consequence of the Indians in that quarter being …

Was partly oweing to my being unwell that day and partly by misinformation of the Time when upon my hearing of the Condolence &c I much regretted my absence and especially since I have heard some ill improvement has been already made of it by Monsir Mountour which may possibly yea probably prejudice the minds of the Indians against me & even the Protestant Religion which Sir …

Jn as much as I am a minister of Christ, & my Work principally to preach the Gospel to the lower rank of people: I have not used my self much to the company, & converse of Gent" of the Civil & Military order especially in the pleasure and practice of drinking Healths, Loyal Toasts &c wherfore I may easily offend in this respect, with no ill meaning--And in as much as in …

And I mean to drink such a Health to his British Majesty, when occasion serves, so long as his Royal Majesty shall govern his British, & American subjects according to Magna Charta, or the great charter of English Liberties, and hears the prayers of his American Subjeets, when properly laid before Him--But in case his Bitish Majesty (which God in great mercy prevent) should …

It is with some apprehension 'of Concern I write--I am sensible of the great. propriety of Your Excellencys forbidding the Ind»s intoxicating Spirits (at this Time)--and besides the other Ind2 in gen!!, It may be observ'd the Seneca's who have been a great while in coming--come arm'd--while we at the Fort & round about are naked--& defenceless--They have also (it is s¢) their …

As I am aseer, I may be knowing to some things--Your Excellency possibly may not--which occasions me thus to write-- ' 394 PAPERS. RELATING TO REY. MR JOHNSON TO THE COMMISSIONERS. To Sir W™ Johnson Governour Franklin Col Grahom Col] Butler and. other Respectable Gent» Intrested & concerned at their Congress Honle & Respectable As I am here in behalfe of Dt Wheelock in the …

preached and Schools set up that we may know where to find them & not have to ramble all over the world after them or Find them vassals on other mens Land And as we propose to propegate the Gospel in the most open christian & catholick manner imaginable we are quite unwilling to be circumvented in any way whatsoever being assured our Design is good whatever our success may be …

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 …

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 …

Your answer to the above Proposal is Desird By Jacob Ws Johnson Minister of Christ & Missionary to the Onoida Indians & others. . 396 PAPERS RELATING TO 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 …

With Regard to the Price of the Printing I will only say this, that when the Bargain Mt Weyman made, is completed, the Printer will have but very little for his Trouble, and that there would be a much greater Benefitt resulting from English at half the Price. However I,want no more than what is reasonable which I am very certain you will allow me. The Difference to me in an …

The Indians insisted 'on their Title to the Lands as far as the Cherokee River, which they Cede to the King and I was contented to admit it in the Deed & Transactions, notwithstanding any pretended Claim of the Cherokees, because it puts an End to the Claim of the Northern Indians, and leaves it only to be settled by the Cherokees shod the latter appear to have any Colour of a …

It will be impossible for you to Judge in the least of my Trouble and the difficulties I had to overcome from the Extracts I have sent or indeed from a Copy of the whole, for the most Material Points are settled at private Congresses with the Chiefs of weh no minutes can be taken, and these I was engaged in Night & Day, for as we came to Argue the Continuation of the Boundary …

The New Englanders have had Missionaries for sometime amongst the Oneidas & Oghquagaes and I was not ignorant that their old pretensions to the Susquehanna Lands, was their Real, tho' Religion was their assumed: object, but knowing that any steps I could take with these Missionss would from the Inds conceptions be deemed violent I treated them with silent contempt, Tho I think …

As T had often visited Mt Gaine abt the Inda Prayer Books I was w'h him this Day, he says all that he has to do wth them THE SIX NATIONS. 399 will be finishd in a few Days then will send them to the Binders so that in less than a fortnight you may have some of them up. I have made bold to tell him not to let any go out of his hands till you have the whole that you want, for he …

Letter to Lord Hillsborough I gave to Mt Adams as I understood he had Liberty of sending y* Dispatches by a private Ship if none of ye kings Pacquets were here: there is a new Pacquet for y* kings us Comanded by Cap' Goodridge advertis'd this Day to go in December. Gen! Gage not yet returnd tis said he is by the Way on the Land Richardsis arriy'd in ten Weeks no material news …

On the receipt of your Letter you hon' me with dated 24th October, we immediately wrote to Mt Murrey but have not yet recd an answer we could not go on at that time with Ceiling the Church as there was not one Plaisterer in Town, so concluded to stay till the Spring when Mauffet as Promised to do it, we shall give Mr Sutton the offer of the Joiners work as any recommendation …

I believe his present Circumstances are very indifferent but he conceives he has a prospeét of some advantage in view from the Publication of a manuscript he has wrote on the Manners, Customs & History of the Southern Indians, tending to prove their descent from the Hebrews, which performance shews him a man well acquainted with the Languages, and very Curious in his Remarks …

JOHNSON TO THE REVD. WM. SMITH. . Johnson Hall Jany 34 1769. ir The return of M* McClay affords me a good opportunity of answering your favor of last month on the subjects you mention on some of which M? Peters & I have conversed, and to whom I have wrote fully the other day as well concerning M* Murray, as of the Two Young men you mention for Orders your Sentiments on which I …

The Line as I before observed is not closed to the Northward so that Lands there must lye till his Majestys pleasure is known, and for the rest it is Ceded to the King by the late Treaty, so that it is hard to know what will be the Channell for Patents in future, and the fees here. are Extremely high--at the late Treaty nothing was done with regard to Lands but what related to …

He then immigrated to this country, and on being invited to take charge of the College in Philadelphia, returned to England and received orders in the church of England in December 1753. In May following he was placed at the head of the Philadelphia institution. He revisited England in 1759 when the degree of D.D. was conferred on him by the University of Oxford. After a life …

I was at New Haven last week where the General Assembly. of this Colony were setting and heard Cole Dyer make his application to them for a Deed of the susquehanna Lands--in doing this he was pleased to say somethings that I knew were not true and informed several of the House of it & Could I have'stayed untill he Came out should have told him so--I have since heard …

Some Gentlemen that may be depended on who I have seen within these few days from Boston Report that the People there who were such Hero's in August & Sept. last are now under the most terrible apprehensions for fear of being Called to Great Britain by virtue of 1 Lord Chief Justices Warrant--for Calling & meeting at a Famous Convention and other matters of the same …

404 PAPERS: RELATING, TO Gentleman & party therein mentioned, relative to which I by. the same post received some farther accounts of a personal Nature which obliged me on his lately applying for my Interest at the ensuing Election, to address him particularly on, the score of the Liberties I heard he had taken, which in a letter in Answer he denys and explains his Conduct in …

There will probably be more time given should there be another Election soon, & some persons may start up as Candidates worthy encouragemt, but I have had such long Experience of the Views and Interests of some partys amongst you, that I imagine one or two Members from hence however otherwise inclined would prove of little service as to any thing to be done in the House …

THE SIX NATIONS. 405 HUGH GAINE TO SIR W™ JOHNSON INDIAN PRAYER BOOK COMPLETED. Sir This yowll receive by Col]. Croghan, who will at the same Time deliver you one of the Indian Common Prayers: Agreeable to my Promise I had them compleated by Christmass, and they are now in the Hands of the Binders, and I expect to have them ready to send up by the first Sloops that go up in …

Ou Thursday last we Recd the inclosed Letter, by which you'll understand, that all our Expectations, as to M* Murray are at an End, you can't. immagine how the Disappointment affects us, and willbe attended with the Consequences of losing some part of our Congregation by their Joining the Dissenters, as they have provided themselves with a Gentleman who is much admired, And as …

Jn consequence of some Letters that passed betwixt Sir William Johnson & the Revd Dr Smith of Philad# I wrote the Society in January last for leave to Remove to Schenectady, & accordingly obtained their Consent Summer last: But hearing nothing in the Interim from the People as I expected from what Dt Smith wrote Sr William when I applied the Society, I was obliged to drop all …

Wuerras, Mess's Danforth and Willard, Professors of the Mathematicks, are going to observe the transit of Venus in Lake Superior ; The officers commanding as abovementioned at and on the Communication to Missilimakinak, are required to treat them with all such Convenience as their respective Posts will afford, and to give all such aid and assistance, as may be in their Power …