I think it very hard that
I muſt
^be ^
ſblam'd
ſo much as
^I have^ been ſince my Return
from home, and all for taking up those things at
Mr Breeds, when I hard Orders from
Mr Wheelock to get them, for which I am now
accounted
a Devil or Proude as the Devil. After you have re
peatedly and manifeſtly told me that I ſhould
have whalſoever I wanted; If you denied me when
I came to aſk for them; I ſhould not feel half ſo bad
as I do now, or if you told me in a mild Manner
when I got home:
those things which you got
w
illegibleere too good and too coſtly, you muſt not have
them, I ſhould not reſiſt you —. You know,
Sir, I have
been always been governd and ad
viſ'd by you with all eaſe imaginable. —
—. This brings into my mind what Treat
ment I met ſince I came here. yea it is ſhame
ful, when I have been
^ſo^ faithful to you as if I was
your Negro, yea
wI have almoſt
kill'd
myſelf
in Labouring. — I have done hitherto all what
laid in my Power
to kelp you; I think I can
ſay and beleive you too that I have done more
Service to you tha
tn all the reſt of the Indian
Boys. and now I am too bad to live in the Houſe for
one of my miſſtepes, therefore I muſt leave you
and
your School this very
Day an
yd go weeping
in the Road homeward
I am greivd that I have t
oroubled
^you ſo much^ as I have.
I am ſorry those things were not denied me at
fi
illegiblerſt and then it would been all well and eaſy
before now. — But aſure you, Sir, you
ſhall receive Payment from me yearly till
every Fathing be paid, it ſhall not be ſaid
all that Money and
illegible Pains which was ſpent
for
David Fowler an Indian
^was^ for Nought I can
get Payment as well as white Man. O Dear
me!
I cant ſay no more, I am
yr