That I
John Wheelock of
Hanover in the
County of Grafton and
state of New Hampshire L.L.D.
president of
Moor's Indian Charity School in said
Hanover (
which School was originally founded by my
hon'd Father, the late reverend
Eleazer Wheelock D.D.
at
Lebanon in
Connecticut) sole succeſsor to my
said hon,
d
Father in the presidency of the said
School,
and one of the Executors of his last Will and
Testa
ment, for and in conſideration of the Sum of Six
hundred and fifty eight pounds, eleven ſhillings, and
eleven pence 1/4 Sterling money of
great Britain,
covenanted by the
Society in
Scotland for the propagating Christian
knowledge, to be paid by duely ho
nouring my two Sets of Exchange drawn on them
in
favour of
Thomas Ruſsell
Esq: or order, dated
Boston
June 15th Anno Domini one thouſand seven hundred and eighty nine, one of which Sets being for three
hun
dred pounds Sterling and the other Set three
hundred
and fifty Eight
Ppounds, eleven ſhillings, and eleven pence
1/4 Stirling, have given up and relinquished, and do
by these preſents give up releaſe and relinquish all
claim or demand (other than said Sum of Six
hun
dred and fifty eight pounds, eleven ſhillings, and eleven
pence 1/4 Sterling, together with other payments
hereto
fore
fore made) which I have, or
may, or ought to
have on the funds collected by
Doct.r Whitaker and
Mr Occom, and deposited by them in the hands
of
said Society in Scotland for the use and be
nefit of Said
Moors' Indian Charity
School, for,
and on account of any Expenditures, which have
been
incurred by said Doct
r
Eleazer Wheelock and my
self, or either of us in proſecution of the important
object of propagating Christianity and Civilization
among the Indian natives of
America, prior to the
fifteenth day of June last past. — — —
—
Provided, nevertheleſs, that this shall not
operate as a discharge therefrom until payment
shall
have been made of the two Sets of Exchange above
mentioned — And, alſo, that this discharge shall not
be construed to intend or imply arelinquishment
of right or claim to said fund for defraying future
expences of
said School, which may arise in
prose
cution of the objects, for which the monies, of which
said fund is constituted, were collected. — — —