Dennys DeBerdt, letter, to Eleazar Wheelock, 1761 August 31

Author DeBerdt, Dennys

Date31 August, 1761

Call Number761481

abstractDeBerdt writes regarding various donations and fundraising efforts.

handwritingHandwriting is loose and informal, yet largely legible.

paperSingle sheet is in fair condition, with moderate staining, creasing and wear.

inkFaded black-brown ink bleeds through from front to back.

noteworthyIn the first paragraph, it appears that each reference to a society or committee refers to a body of the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge.

EventsOccom’s First Mission to the Oneidas

Persistent Identifier

Revd & Dear Sir
Since I wrote to you I have mett the
Society and also writ to Scotland to the Comittie
there and they seem Resolved to support Mr
Occum
s Miſsion with £20 a year and will
propose it to the Society who meet in Novem.r
and I hope to gett it allowed from Michaelmaſs
I have also wrote to Mr Holliſ and got a
Friend to talk to him, but could gett him to
Promise nothing, but that he would Consider
of it, and he might pay the money perhaps for
what was paſt, but always was a Whimſical
man having his head long since Turned by
what were called the French Prophetts, and will
think of nothing but his Enthusiastical
Revealation. —
Dear Mr Whitefield who is now gott well
enough to Preach again sent me £25 ‒ for
the use of your Indian School which in our
Last to Mr John Smith we desired him to pay
you, any other service in my Power you may freely Command —
Rev.d Sir Your Humble Servant
Dennys De Berdt
[right]M.r De, Berdt's
The Support of Mr Occom's Miſsion
1761.

Recd Dec.r 30. 1761.
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