I just now am informed by
Mr. Lyman
that you Sent me
a letter yesterday by a direct conveyance which is never
like to arrive
that I know of — Mr.
Jewett
and
Occom were here
on Thursday, and waited till night almost — but no
Wheelock I happened
to have a fine line of Lamb well dressed for your
Dinner, which I Shall charge to you — though
Mr.
Jewett
etc.
eat it —
Mr.
Occom, in hopes to find you, came up again
yesterday morning — you are So stingy of your Schemes
that I know nothing — why you called Mr.Jewett, etc. is it in or
der to Send either of us on a mission to the Turks? for it
seems you can mend all that others do amiss, or leave undone.
It may be you would have
Mr.
Occom an house built — I should
be glad to have it done — am disposed to do everything in my
Power to promote it — believe I can do but
little among my
people to get help by labour or otherwise, indeed I can hardly
desire
them, they are So poor — It may be Something might be done
gratis by Some in town But the great difficulty lies in the
disaffection
which
arises from, his neglect of Mr.
Jewett, and his lec
tures — my dear brother, I really fear
that
Mr.
Occom does not
do well in this — I wish you could See brother
Jewett — he told me
Thursday evening, that
Occom had not only broke up the School
So that there were but 3 children that attended — but his lectures
also So that but 3 or 4 attended them — and
that he behaves haughtily
towards him (
inter
nos) but he can inform you better himself
I have advised
Mr.
Occom to treat Mr.
Jewett with freedom, and go
to his house as he had invited him; and if he could not be free pub
licly, yet that privately he might confer — but he looks on Mr.
Jewett as having injured the indians — and improved some of their land
and is, I fear, too credulous of Indian stories —You may be Sure of
my friendship to
Occom, but I must be just, and I really believe
that
Mr.
Jewett acts with the
greatest
tenderness
possible — Mr.
Jewett
must write the
commissioners of the State of the School, but I persuaded