Eleazar Wheelock, letter, to Company for Propagation of the Gospel in New England and the parts adjacent in America, 1764 July 9
Date9 July, 1764
Call Number764409
abstractAs secretary of the Connecticut Board of Correspondents of the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge, Wheelock writes to the Company for Propagation of the Gospel in New England and the parts adjacent in America, asking that it release Occom from its employ and pay him the 30 pounds that was promised him.
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Hond Gentlemen,
formd in the Coloney by the Comiſsion of the Honle Society
in Scotland for propagating chriſtian knowledge, to inform
you, that, in Conſideration of
Correſpondents apprehend there may be to the Furtherence of the
gen.l Deſign of propagating the Gospel among the Indians, by
taking M.r Occom into the Same Plan with other Miſsionaries
and School Maſters, who are now prepared to be Sent forth, they
have voted to take said Occom into their Service, as Soon as a door
Shall open for his being improved therein, provided you will conſent
to
Conſideration
ſidering that his Dwelling when he is not on the Buſineſs of his Miſsion
will be with, and near them and
and fully known, and where he and his Family may eaſily apply
Relief, Direction &c as there shall be occaſion, and he be
profitably employed when he is not on the Buſineſs of his Miſsions abroad,
so as not to interfere with your Miſsion in this Government. —
And he also chooſes it, as those Miſsion.rs. & School Maſter designed to be Sent from us are
all of them his Intitmate Friends & Acquaintents, and one of them his Bro
ther in Law, Who being joyn'd with him in the Same Plan, may naturally
improve and comfort, Strengthen & aſiſt oneanother in their reſpective
Buſineſs
Pay, and more so now, and we have yet no Fund,
Said Corriſpondents pray you to take it also into your conſideration &
you voted last Feby towards his annual Support and also that you would grant
as much Aſsiſtance as your
by the best Acco.t we have yet been able to get,
currancy
use
Hope of
anſwer as soon as may be
Lebanon July 9, 1764. Eleazar Wheelock Secty to ye Board
of Com̅iſsrs —