I now acquaint you that
Hezekiah
Calvin has been some time among the Indians in this place, and
does not Design to return to you any more, but
is going to
Newport to get a passage to
Philadelphia. — Has also, given
your
School a bad character.— that you use the Indians very
hard in keeping of them to work, and not allowing them a proper
privilege in the School, — that you have took from him his
Silver Watch, and
shoe buckles with other things which his
Father gave him, — that there is large quantities of Rice,
coffee, flour
and Sugars sent from
the corporation in Scotland to support the Indians in your
School, which you
Sell,
together with the
clothes which are sent, and
diet, and
clothe
them with That that's mean. — That the best clothes he has
his Father gave him. — That
Mary
Secutor, and
Sarah Simon has been kept on close to work,
as if they were your Slaves,
and have had no privilege in the
School † nor one Copper al
lowed
them for their Labour. — That
Mary
asked for a small
piece of Cloth to make a pair of Slippers, which you would
not allow her, — it was
too good for Indians etc.. — That
James Simon is to be Bound to a Farmer. — That you wont
give
no more of the Indians more learning than to Read, and Write
— it will make them Impudent; for which they are all
about to leave you. — So that
the Indians are ready to conclude,
that their Fellow-Indians will never receive
any great Bene
fit of the Large sums of Money contributed by good People, to
promote so good a Cause.
†Since last Fall,
P.S. The above has not entered my Heart as Truth.