Boston
July 16 1761.
Much Respected Sir
For your favour of Decem:r the 10 Last you where pleasd to order my Staying the last years Interest to your future orders. and as
this is your Last letter Reciv'd, I am still waiting your pleasure on this Head If this where
design.d agreable to my whishes, the Glory of the Redemers kingdom would call it, for the Conversion's of the Indians; this is a large
field, Nor are the Numbers, even of the Nations, of these poor imortal Souls Through wide [illegible][guess: Eaten][illegible]ed America, so much as known by name or Existence to
any English man, how much the french have learnt on
this Head, I cannot say, or so much as Gueſs, These poor people as farr as there are known; have many signatures of being the posterity of the ten
Tribes of [illegible]Iſreal, scattered by the Babilonish Conquest; I have my Self By Conver
^Convers^ of 35 y.s past, learnt of old men at that time, That in their antient
war^r^s with them, They have suprized them in sacrifice, ^strictly^ after the mosaich
Institution, & particulary that the pascal Lamb was offerd on the
Paſsover month — I have in the same manner learnt that the Great ^name of^ God &c is in the language of the nations however ^otherwise^
diffirent, yet in these things simular; and not so farr adulterated from the Hebrew, as to be hard to be understood by a Common Ear
that attend. the Repitition of the sounds — But here I shall save my self & you Trouble
— Becauſe my truly Pious Lear.d & zealously spireted, friend the Rev.d
M.r
Elezer Wheelock has promiſe ^d^ to send, in order to be sent to Great Britan, [illegible: [guess: aſ]] full accots of this & other Affairs Relating to the Indians — Mr Wheelock Brought to my house a likely young Indian who had
gotten the English Language with Grammer Learning & some Competent Knowledge in — Divinity, whose Design
for a preacher to ye Indians, His Brother
Mr
Okum has had a turn at yale
Colledge
and is so well formd that he has preach'd to acceptance in Mr Wheelock & some other pulpits & is going among the Indians
Mr Wheelock has one or two other Boys under tuition & is
sending for 2 or 3 Mohawk Lads in order to
instruct them & fitt them for thi this
minastration: & Considering sic the natural Surmising Jelous make[illegible: [guess: g]] of the Indian in general &
the perticular prejudices raised by the furor in the minds of some of the nations against
the English it appears very Conducive to the
spread of the Gosple
^That^ Those Preachers should be formd out of men & youths of there own tribes — But as this a subject which is to be reintroducd when I hear from Mr Wheelock I now save you pretious time & Desist
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