Your incouraging, animating Letter of
Feb.ry 27. came
safe to Hand 4 Days ago. And the Zeal which you breath
forth
e therein for the
accomplishment of the great Deſign in View, as well as the incouraging
appearances of which you write, ſensibly
Strenghten my Hope in God, that
ſome great things are yet to be done in the Wilds of America, for the
Glory of
his great Name, And that the Bleſsings of Hundreds, &
Tou
ſands who are perishing for lack of Vision will Yet come upon You as a
principle Inſtrument in the Hand of God of accomplishing this great
Design. — I have Sent
to a Friend in the
Mohock Country to
move ſome of my Pupils there to furnish an agreable
Preſent of Indian
Rarities to
Lord
Dartmouth, I ſhall forward them as ſoon as may be
when they
[illegible]ive. — I am now
every Day expecting
M.r Kirtlands
Return from
the
Senecas. I advised him ſome Months ago, to obtain
Meeting of the Cheifs of that larg Tribe, And desire of them a
Categorical Anſwer whether they would receive Miſsionaries and
School Maſters
& how many they would employ &
deſird among them.
I underſtand he has been down &
conſulted
S.r William Johnſon on
the Head who advises to perſue my Advice & Affords him all his
Aſsiſtance
& Influence therein. I hope he will bring a Number
of Boys with him from that
Tribe. —
M.r Kirtland is of Opinion
(& I think there is much weight in it) that all parties of Indians
of this
Side
the Senecas
& within
the Confederacy, who are
willing
to have Miſsionaries
&
School Maſters, might be ſupplied, tho' their
Numbers are ſmall, in order to prevent Jealouſies of a Design in
the English to get away their Lands, & to let them ſee we are
Zealous enough to Labour with ſmaller numbers, & with ſuch as
are quite poor, &
ſo without any proſpect of gain, by them, to
Ourſelves, This Opinion of the Deſign of the English is at pre=
-ſent the Grand Impediment in
[illegible]our way. And
their Prejudices
in This Matter is
[illegible] far from
being without foundation, & I wish
there were not those who are ſtill confirming it. — I inclose
for you in my Pacquit to
M.r Whitaker, one of
M.r Allens Ans.
rs to
to Pilate. Which I pray you to give Yourſelf the trouble to read & let
me know your thoughts upon it. — I ſhall write you as often as
I
I can —
M.r Kirtlands proposal to return
^so^
ſoon prevents my ſending
Abstracts of his Letters 'till he arives when I hope to do it more
perfectly that I can at present,
PS. dear
M.r Barber is delirious, despairs of Mercey,
refuses to read or pray, or converſe with any. pray
for him. —