I have Drawn a Bill of Exchange upon you for the whole
of your most
kind and generous Donation. Neceſsity urges me,
and I am very Confident, it will not be diſagreable to your Mind;
I have alſo
Drown on you as a Truſtee two Bills, for two half years
paſt, according to your kind Direction and permiſsion heretofore
for I have heard nothing Contrary from You till now, and
Docr Wheelock has never told me, that the money was Exhuſted, tho’
I did hear Such a thing Some how; but I Saw a gentleman
about a Year ago, who came directly from
London, and he
told me, he had Intervew with Some of the
Honl
Truſt and he
underſtood them, the money was not Expended, but they wou’d
not let
Docr Wheelock have anymore, You may
^have^ Seen
the gent
n that inform’d me, it was
[illegible]The
Revd
Docr Ewing of
Philadelphia he had been traveling thro
great Britain Soliciting the Charities
of
the People for a certain College. — The Times are Extreamly
Diſtreſing in this part of the World, theſe unnatural Wars have
effected and Diſtreſt
every one, eſpecially the Poor, I never
have had Such a Burden; I have had much Sickneſs in my
Famil lately, and every thing
extreamly Dear, eſpecially
Cloathing, O that I had
[illegible] old Cloaths from
London, if
London was
not more than half So far as it is, I woud Come over to beg old
Cloaths — Three pounds will not purchace So much of the Ne
ceſsaries of Life now, as tweenty Shillings wou’d before theſe
ungodly Wars took place. — And the worſt of all is, theſe Wars
have Eat out the vitals of Religion, eſpecially among the white
People, Some white People Say themſelves, that the poor Indians
have more Religion than they have, the poor Indians
indeed
that make a Profeſsion of Religion, maintain thei
^r^
Religin in
Some meaſure, I preach amongſt them as often I as I uſed to do
and they are much engagd in attending upon the word of god, —
And there is one Good Circumſtance among the Indians in genral
every where, they dont Chuſe to Join in either Side in this Con
tention, but Chuſe Strict N
^e^utra
[illegible]lity, and the white Americans dont
want to have them Join in either,
The Congreſs have Sent out Com
miſsioners among the Indians, Several Times and different ways
to adviſe them to be Eaſy and Quiet, not to entermeddle in the Engliſh
Family Quarril —
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My Wife’s Brother went about 600 miles weſtward
from this Place last Sept
r with a number upon this Buſineſs and
is juſt
returnd, he tells me, he Saw Six Sachems altogether of differen
^t^ Tribes, and that was the advice to them from the Commiſsioners and
the Sachems promiſed Strictly to obſerve the advice, and Indians them
ſelves are agreeing among themſelves in there different Tribes not
^to^[illegible]
entermeddle with the Engliſh Contentions, — When the white People
began to Inliſt Soldiers about here, Some of our Lazy Indians were
very ready to Inliſt, but the white People woud not accept of them(;
Be it Spoken to the praiſe of the white People,) but Some few woud
and did liſt after all their rejection, — Laſt Summer there were
Some white people wanted to hire others to go in their
Room, and
two Indians offerd
themſelves; but when the Colo
l, who had care
of ‘em, Saw them, he turn’d them back again. — But the Kings
offircers, Some of them, I hear, have been uſing their Influence
to engage the poor Indians on their Side; — I wiſh the
King of
great Britain, woud Command all his officers in
North America to let the poor miſerable Indians alone; What have we
to do with your Contentions? — As for
mr Kirkland; I heard he was
among the Indians Some part of last
Summer, but where he is
now, I can not Say. — Theſe Sad Contentions have brock up all Miſ
ſionaries and School masters among the poor Indians, — I heard
there was Money
[illegible]Enough in the Hands of
the Honl Scotch Society and they did
^not^ know
how to lay it out, I wiſh they woud
Conſider my
Caſe; Pray most Compaſsionate Sir, Interceed with them for me —
I wrote them last winter, but I have had no Anſwere, if I Shoud write
again perhaps my Letters will never reach them in theſe Times.