Eleazar Wheelock, letter, to John Brainerd, 1761 November 6
Date6 November, 1761
Call Number761606.1
abstractWheelock updates Brainerd on the progress of various Indian students at the school.
handwritingHandwriting is informal and occasionally difficult to decipher.
paperLarge single sheet is in good-to-fair condition, with light-to-moderate staining, creasing and wear that leads to a minor loss of text. There is preservation work along particularly heavy creases.
inkBlack.
noteworthyThis document appears to be a draft. On one recto, in the first paragraph, an unknown editor, possibly 19th-century, has added the note "Woolley" in pencil above the word "Joseph." This edit has not been transcribed.
[left]weeks ago I met yours, with Miriam at My House. I am well
pleaſed with
contented, ſhe has a kind Miſtreſs who ſays She learns
well ſo far as ſhe has had Opportunity to ſee & know
Amie y.e other India
and boards about
has made ſurprizing proficiency in learning ſince ſhe
came laſt Spring. ſhe then ſcarſely knew her Letters.
(and indeed is more backward in reading than in other
parts of her Learning) will now write
ſhe kept House for her Miſs. while ſhe was gone on a viſit
near a fortnit and did it well, underſtands tending a Dary, and has
lately [illegible] her a Pocket
tell the Parents of Miriam there ſhall nothing be wanting
for her within my Power. Joseph is well fitted for College
and I have this Year Entred ſeveral not better fitted
than Hezekiah. I deſigned they ſhould have made
a viſit to their Friends
going was appointed but for ſeveral Reaſons
made them willing to defferr it till ſpring. it had
got to be ſomething late in ye fall & no Opport[gap: worn_edge][guess: uny]
of a Paſsage by water preſented. &c but principally
[left]been that Hezekiah after I
with him has been under Convictions for several Months and is ſo ſtill
which has made a ſurprizing Change in him, and I
feard y.t ſo long a Diverſion would prove
the Mohawke Language of these Mohawke Boys I have
Book it wont greatly hinder
I have ſent my poor weekley Son Radulphus to your
College
and I
Joseph as they Did Jacob under their Patronage and
ſtill continue him with me and let my ſon have his
ſupport. the weight upon me is great, and I dont well
know how to get along without Such an advantage.
will you think favourably of it Dear Sir and use your Intreſt
in my Favour?
can ſend her.
I want
of ye School and So