The accounts we have had of the Smiles of Heaven upon
Your Honour's Important undertaking, and the Temper which So many
distant Tribes of Indians have discovered towards the English have
determined the
Commissioners of a Board of Correspondents lately formed
in
this Government by a commission from the
Honourable Society for propogating
Christian Knowledge, that it may answer Several good Purposes
to Send the
Rev.
Mr. Occom to meet you, if it may be before
those Indians from
remote Tribes who have joined
Your Army are dispersed, and accordingly they do herewith Send him in Order to
make Proposals to
said Tribes of Indians of receiving
missionaries and schoolmasters among them. and also to procure
a Number of likely Youth (of both Sexes if you think best) to be Educated
in
this School —
and the
Commissioners
desire (if Your Honour will not
think the Burden too great amidst your weighty Affairs) that the Whole
may be under your direction and
Conduct. I Should be glad to receive
15 or 20. if You can procure those who are
likely, and from Tribes as
remote as may be. — We hope to be able to Send
two or three
Miniſters next Spring and as many schoolmasters. if a Door Shall be
open for them. All the Mohawk Boys, and Several other Indian youth
in
this School are now well accomplished for schoolmasters excepting
their want of Age —
I have no need to recommend the
Rev.
Mr. Occom or his Brother
David Fowler whom we have appointed to accompany
him to your
Honours kindness
and
friendship, since you have given them Such testimonials
thereof , as invite them and us,
with greatest Confidence to rely upon it—
May God Still Smile upon Your Endeavours to make
America a
quiet and peaceable Habitation for his people, and reward all your
Labours and Fatigue therein,
not only with Such worldly Honours as you
have merited from your fellow men, but with
the Richer blessings of this new
and everlasting Covenant.