We take the Earlieſt
oportunity
by direction of your
bord of Correſpondents in the Colony of Cont to Inform you that upon Receit of
your Commiſsion the Gentlemen namd
there in met
in
Lebn
July 9
&
Formd
themſelves by Chooſing the
Proper Officers nam
d,
in
[illegible] to Enable them to act in
Capacity of your Correſpondents
&
appointed [illegible] a Comtee to give you an ac
t of
[illegible]their doings &
preſent
proſpects
and in the firſt Place to Return their warm &
ſincereſt
Thanks for the Hon
r you have done them in Com
miſsioning them to be Correſpedents of
your Hon.le
ſo ciety. We Joyn our Earneſt Prayers with you &
ſhall
by Gods Grace unite our fervent Labours to Promote the
Excellent Purpoſe your Pious hearts are set upon
the advancement of the K
m of our Bleſed Redeemer
&
speading the ſavour of his knwledge among them
who ſit in darkneſs
& the Regions of
the Shadow
of Death, the moſt glorious object of your & our atten
tion. as the doing this will Serve alſo the Intreſt of
our King So there is one Circumſtance Peculiarly ob
ligatory on us, that the Suceſs of it will be Greatly
beneficial to the Peace &
hap
S of our own Country
we humbly take Leave to Inform your Hon
le board
y
t
y
e
beſt
Proſpect which at Preſant lies in our vi
[illegible][guess: ew] is In the
School which has been for
some time und
r the Care of the Rev
d
Mr Wheelock.
the State of which
& the Reſources which a Kind & Gracious Providence has opend for its Support, as alſo the Accounts of ye
Reburſements of the Moneys Given, & the succeſs at tending it untill — has been Sent to you — &
leſt it has faild
Reachg you is now sent here with and our Preſent
Proſpects
&
purpoſes you
will See as follows. tho we have no aſsurance of Peace
with the Indians but Entertain strong hopes y
t the
Preſent troubles will be brot to a Speedy Iſsue
& are
⅌ſwaded that when that Event happens it Concerns us to
be a
Sſs speedy as Poſsible in Exert
g our utmoſt Endeavors
to Send the Goſpel
^as far as may be^ into the bowels of the
^Pagan^ Country
of the Six
Nations if Poſsible before it is throng
d with
unrigh
s Dealers Whoſe unbridled avarice threatens the
Greateſt
miſchief to the Cauſe. we have voted to take the Rev
d
Mr Occom into our Service if he may be freed from a
Preingagem
t to the
London Commiſioners which we Ex
pect may be without difficulty. we have alſo
Referd
to our Com
tee the send
g
Samll
Aſhpo a judicious & Pious
Indian
who we when Providence ſhall open a door.
we have alſo the Pleaſure to Inform you that there are
[illegible]Eight
^or ten^ Indian youth
in this
School of Good Moral Character
well accompliſhd for School maſters Except their want of age
& fortitutude, we purpoſe to Send forth two or three of
theſe next Spring to Remote Tribes,
Next Spring in
the Capacity of Schoolmaſters
& Expect by the bleſsing
of God that in the Courſe of a year they will be
ſo far
Maſters of
^acquinted with^
y
e
Cuſtoms, & Languages of thoſe na
tions that it may be probly Expedient to ordain & purpose them as miniſters among them. we Expect
Mr Charles Jeoffry Smith will Return as ſoon as it will
be Safe for him on a miſsion to the
Six Nations. —
& The Union of all thoſe in the Same plan we ap
rehend will afford amore
agreable
proſpect than has
ever yet appeard of this kind. but theſe Things
we have determined upon without a Shilling in
Stock, Relying
only on him whoſe the Earth is & the
fullneſs
there of to Support the Same, who has hither
to appeard to own the Design &
Increaſe it from Small
beginnings nor has Sufferd
thoſe who have truſtd in him
to be aſhamed of their Confidence. — and
we have
^doubt^
From
^conſidering^ the Great
Charater
^Evidince^ of the Piety, &
Generoſity of
your hon
le Society
Stong hope
^we doubt not^ that when the Impor
tance of this
affair ſhall be maturely Conſid
d by you
you will agreably to the Other Expreſs
n of your
Pious Zeal do all that your wiſdom
& Power Ena
bles you to do to Render as Capable to Execute theſe
Great & Good Designs. as the Expected openings will
probebly Induce Miſsionaries, &
Schoolmaſters to viſit
the Remoter Tribes than any of our Miſsionaries have
hitherto Reach.
d
&
theſe
miſsionaries mostly Indians we conceive
will give them more Convinc
g
prooff of the
sincerity of our Intentions, & Incline them to Send their
Promiſing youth when Invited to Receive an Education
with us, ſo we hope
the Honle Society will think
this
Scool which subſiſts on no other Fund but the Care
& bounty of divine Providence to be an object worthy
of their Kind notice &
attention Encourgment —