Know all Men by these Presents
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 honored father the late
Reverend
Eleazar
Wheelock D.D. at
Lebanon in
Connecticut) to be
successor to my
said honored father in
[illegible][guess: the] Presidency of
said School, and one of the
executors of his last Will and Testament
and with the Consent of the other
Executors named in the said Will
hereto with me Subscribing, for and
in
consideration of the Sum of Six
hundred and fifty eight Pounds Eleven
Shillings
and Eleven pence
[illegible][guess: one]
farthing
Sterling Money of
Great
Britain Covenanted by the
Society in
Scotland for propagating Christian Knowledge to be paid by duly
honoring my
two Sets of Exchange drawn on them
in favor of
Thomas Russel Esquire
on order dated
Boston
June 15th Anno domini one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine one of
which
sets being for three hundred Pounds
Sterling, and the other Set for
three
hundred and fifty eight Pounds Eleven
Shillings and Eleven pence one
farthing
Sterling
Sterling
have
given up and relinquished and in compliance with
and in terms of the
Resolutions
of the
said Society of date the
Seventeenth day of November one thousand seven hundred and eighty
five and signified to me by
their Secretary in a
Letter of date the
eighteenth day of that Month and of the
Twenty eighth day of August one thousand seven hundred and
eighty nine signified to me
by their
Clerks in absence of their
Secretary in a Letter of date the
twelfth day of September thereafter Do by these
presents
give up Release and Relinquish
all Claims and Demands
[illegible]
whatsoever upon the
said Society with respect to
the
School aforesaid from its first
Institution
to the
fifteenth day of June one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine[illegible] 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
In witness whereof I
the said
John
Wheelock as principal and
[illegible]
Eleazar Wheelock and
James Wheelock the other
executors in testimony of our covenant have
have hereunto set my our hands and
Seal
[illegible] this day of —
J. W. —