Your Excellency having received a Letter lately
from the Rev.
Dr.
Eleazar Wheelock — as also, seen his in‐
structions for propagating the Gospel among the
Indians etc.— Pursuant
whereto — These are humbly
to desire
and importune your Excellency That, inasmuch
as your Excellency
has been pleased more publicly and private
‐ly to manifest an approbation and good liking to
the Doctor's Plan, and laudable design of propagating the
glorious Gospel among the Indians under your
Excellency's Superintendency: So your
Excellency would please
still to countenance and encourage the truly noble
design. And in order to prosecute
the same to
Effect That your
Excellency (as a Tender Father to these
perishing Indians)
would be pleased, of your
most generous and benevolent
disposition, so to befriend their cause, as to prevent their
Selling themselves off from their Lands, thereby to frus‐
trate
the
aforesaid
design of propagating
the
Gospel
among them, which undoubtedly will be the sad consequence
of their so doing — That this Effect may not happen
Your Excellency is humbly desired to restrict
the Bounds
of the respective Provinces, that they may not be
extended so far North and
West, as to cut off the
Lands and Inheritances of the Natives: But that they
possess
and enjoy them for their own private Temporal
use; and
that more sacred benefit of propagating
the Knowledge of the great Saviour of the world among
them; that so, by the Grace of God, they may have a fur‐ther opportunity of a more general offer of the
Gospel to them. And for this End, that your
Excellency
would be pleased to recommend, out of your clemency and
goodness, the above design of propagating the
Gospels among them, To the Heads and Chiefs of the Nations that may be present at this Congress — And finally,
that we may have an opportunity, by order of
your
Excellency to lay the same before the heads and chiefs that may be here — and in so doing your Excellency will not only gain further just
esteem
and
deserved Thanks of all that wish well to this
most
Christian
design; but the blessing of many ready to perish will come upon your Excellency in this present world — and in the world to come, through
the Grace of God Life everlasting — which is the unfeign‐‐ed desire
and
constant Prayer of your
Excellency's
most obliged, humble Servants
NB
Mr.
David Avery is gone up to
Kanawalohale in order to take his farewell
of the Indians and get everything ready to come
off immediately at the close of the Congress
The Sabbath before last
Mr. Peters
preached
to the Indians
and others in the forenoon
abroad but it was so cold and uncomfortable
in the afternoon that though I was desired
by
Mr. Peters
Sir
William
and others I declined but
the Indians gathering together at
Mr. Bradax they Sent for me and I went
there the
house was full and after Some Time
Sir William
Governor
Franklin
and the Chief men of
the Fort came
But my Interpreter (that did very well
'til they came, whether dashed or what at
their
coming was not able by all the
condescension I was master of to humor the
Indian
tongue) could not go on the which
Sir
William
Johnson
and others Seeing with‐
drew which occasioned me a good deal of sorrow
and mortification when they were gone He re
covered
himself again and did pretty well —
yesterday at the desire of
Sir
William
and others
Mr. Peters
and I took our Turns He in the
church way and I in the dissenters to the Great
satisfaction as far as I could learn of all
present— But Sir
we hear
shocking
accounts from
Boston which I am not
able to contradict only to say I do not
believe them — It is said
[illegible]
[guess: some
say] 6 Re‐
giments are Landed — and
the Town under Guard. That
Mr. Otis,
Roe, and
Hancock are sent Home
as Rebels and that 'tis not doubted but they
must
suffer Death and that the 92 will likely
Have the same fate —Do let me know as soon
as you can about these things and How far
you have gone respecting a place for a College
etc.—
Abraham the bearer has a great mind
to go into
your school I took this opportunity
to send
these
and
recommend Him to you sir if you think
proper —