We take Leave to inform your Excellency that the
Board of Correſpondents
Commiſsioners in Connecticut of
the
Society in
Scotland for promoting Chriſtian Knowledge did at their Meeting in
Lebanon the
2d of this Inſtant July Vote
to ſend
ſome
ſuitable
Perſons to
Europe to ſolicit the Charities of
good people there for the Benefit of the
Indian Charity School under the Care of the Rev
d
Mr Wheelock, & for the ſupport of
Miſsionaries among the Indians. And as the Rev
dMeſſ
rs
Wheelock and
Whitaker are the Perſons we expect will go on that Buſi
neſs, we have deſired them to wait on your Excellency to deſire
your Advice and aſsiſtance in it, and your Advice with Reſpect
to the fixing a place for the ſaid
Charity School, it being
neceſsary that a Houſe
ſhould be built to accommodate the ſame
and as it is judged expedient by ſome that it ſhould be removed
nearer to the Indian Tribes, to ask your advice therein, and
to your Aſsiſtance to obtain the Royal Favour for a Charter for ſaid
School, and any other things relative to it as they ſhall judge
proper. Perhaps your Excellency will think in the View of
the
whole Affair, that to ſettle
the School in
the
Indian Country will more than any other Meaſure that can be
gone into contribute to promote the temporal and eternal
Welfare of the Indians; to advance
his Majeſty's Intereſt
the Peace of his North American Subjects, and that no
Meaſure can raiſe ſo great &
laſting a Name and Honour
to your Excellency. If theſe things ſhould appear to you in
ſuch a Light, we aſsure
ourſelves you will readily give
your Weight and Influence to ſuch an important Deſign
And we doubt not but if a good Plan was laid, and
a fair Proſpect opened for the Extenſion
& greater Uſefulneſs
of this Deſign, much greater Bounties m
illegibleight be obtained
to proſecute it, and even a Fund to perpetuate it.
But whatever your Thoughts are we
pray your Excellency
to
to give us your beſt
^&
moſt friendly^ Advice. If the Gentlemen appointed
to wait on your
Excellency ſhould through
Mr Wheelock's
Indiſpoſition, or any other Act of Divine Providence
fail to attend you we pray you will
be ſo good as
to write your thoughts to us.