May it pleaſe your Lordſhip.
Were I not confident, upon good
Teſtimonies, that God has inſpired your Breaſt with
another Spirit, than that which rules in the men of this
world,
and with nobler Principles, and higher views
than they are governd by, I might well be ſolicitous
what Returns of Gratitude to make, which your Lord‐
‐ſhip might think Suitable for Such diſtinguiſhing
condeſention, and Goodneſs, as you have Shewn in the
Grand Affair, on which I have Sent the Rev
d
Meſs
rs
Whitaker and
Occom, in my Stead, to
Europe;
but as
the Succeſs of the general Deſign in view, is the only Joy
that is Set before you, I need not trouble you with,
ſo much as a mention of those Sentiments of Gratitude
toward you, which fill
not only mine, but the Hearts
of all who love our Lord Jesus Chriſt in this Corner of
the world.
Nor can I, with this confidence of your Lordſhip, be
So modeſtly
reſerved, in a Cauſe in which I am not con‐
‐ſcious to mySelf of having any other governing views
than the Advancement of the Kingdom of
our common
Lord,
Lord, and the Intereſts of
his Majesty's Crown, as not
to
Suggest any other Favour, which may be in the Power
of your Hands, towards it, or
attainable by your Lordſhip's
Influence. and particularly that the grand Deſign be in‐
couraged, and accomodated with a Grant of Lands Suitably
Situate, and Sufficient for it. as by the
late Conqueſts large
Tracts are become the Property of the Britiſh Crown, and
other Tracts which were before chartered, but unſettled and
of but little account, by Reaſon of their Diſtance from
Engliſh Settlements, and their vicinity to an Enemy's
country, are now become
valuable and may Soon be
peopled.
of these Lands, his
Majesty has
already been pleaſed,
with good Reaſon, to make various Grants to one and
another, as a Reward of their Merit, and
as Profit has
accrued to his Crown by their Service. But, may it pleaſe
your Lordſhip, there has been nothing hither to
deviſed,
or done, in Which there is any Proſpect of the firm Attach‐
‐ment of the Numerous Tribes of
Savages in this land, to the
briliſh
Intereſt, and their becoming good and peacible
Subjects, and induſtrious Members of Society, which has
in any Meaſure that Degree of Probability in it, as this
has which is recommended to your Lordſhips Patronage.
The Nations will not make war with us while their Children,
and eſpecially the Children of their Cheifs are with us — They can't
reſiſt the Evidence we hereby give them of the Sincerity of our
Intentions towards
them — They know their Sons are made better
by being with us — and that
we make no gain to ourſelves by
it — They receive the Teſtimony of their Sons, that we conſtantly
treat them as Children in Health, and in Sickneſs, and calculate
all our Meaſures for their Good — and they begin to believe that
our Motives are
Something great, quite beyon
gd what they have
before concieved of them — many of them begin to be convinced
of the Neceſsity of Agriculture, in order to their Subſiſtance when
their
their Reſourſes from the Wilderneſs fail, (as they certainly muſt
do, when, and So faſt, as the Engliſh extend their Settlements among
them) and their own ſons are made able, by their Education here,
to inſtruct them in it — The Reputation of
this
School and
their Fondneſs to have their Children taught in it,
isare yet in‐
‐creaſing — a number of their own Sons are now become accum‐
‐pliſhed Interpreters, and School Maſters, among their Tribes, and
recommend a Sober, manly, virtuous, and religious
Life by their
own Example. I can now obtain as many of their Children as
I pleaſe, to be inſtructed here, and an hundred of them eaſier
than I could one ſix years ago. — And how many and
important are the Conſequences which now open to our
view?
And by the royal Favour of a Tract of Lands in Some Place
convenient, Sufficient to accomodate
the School, and employ the
Members of it while
they are learning Huſbandry, there is a fair
Proſpect that more than double the Benefit might be done
them, and the Crown, with
the Same Expence.
But as I am ignorant what may be reaſonable to petition
for, and as I would not needleſsly burden your Lordſhip
in this Affair, I have fully communicated my mind to the
Rev.
d
M.r Whitefield, and
M.r Whitaker, by whom your Lordſhip
may expect to hear what may be judged moſt conducive to
the great Ends in view.
I humbly aſk your Lordſhips Pardon for this Freedom;
and I hope the Nature, and importance of
the Subject may be
eſteem'd, in Some Meaſure, Sufficient Excuſe for him, who
begs leave, with the moſt Sincere Duty, and Reſpect to
Subſcribe
himſelf.