The accounts we have had of the Smiles of Heaven upon
Your
^Honour's^ Important undertaking, and the
[illegible] Temper which So many
diſtant Tribes of Indians have diſcovered towards the Engliſh have
determined the
Com̅iſsioners of a Board of Corriſpondents lately formd
^in this Government^ by a Commiſsion from the
Hon.le Society for propogating
Chriſtian Knowledge, that it may anſwer Several good Purposes
to Send the
Revd
M.r Occom to meet you, if it may be before
those Indians from
remote Tribes who have joyn'd
Your Army are diſperſed,
^and accordingly they do herewith Send him^ in Order to
make Proposals to
them
^ſd Tribes of Indians^ of receiving
Miſsionaries and School Maſters among them. and alſo to procure
a Number of likely Youth (of both Sexes if you think beſt) to be Educated
in
this School —
and the
Com̅iſsioners
deſire (if Your Honour will not
think the Burden too great amidſt your weighty Affairs) that the Whole
may be under your direction and
Conduct. I Should be glad to receive
15 or 20. if You can procure those who are
likely, and from Tribes as
remote as may be. — We hope to be able to Send
of them two or three
Miniſters next Spring and as many School Maſters. if a Door Shall be
open for them. All the Mohock Boys, and Several other Indian youth
are in
this School are now well accompliſhed for School Maſters excepting
their want of Age —
I have no need to recommend the
Rev.d
Mr Occom or his Brother
David Fowler whom we have appointed to accompany
him to your
Honours Kindneſs
&
Friendſhip, ſince you have given them Such Teſtimonials
thereof
[illegible], as invite them and us,
with greateſt Confidence to rely upon it—
May God Still Smile upon Your Endeavours to make
North
America a
quiet and peacible Habitation for his people, and reward all your
Labours and Fatigue therein,
not only with Such worldly Honours as you
have merited from your fellow men, but with
the Richer Bleſsings of this new
covenant and everlaſting Covenant.