Ebenezer Little, letter, to Eleazar Wheelock, 1765 March 1
ms-number765201
abstractLittle updates Wheelock on sundry goods, and suggests that Occom's presence in Newburyport would help the Design.
handwritingInformal handwriting is small, somewhat scrawling and frequently very difficult to decipher.
paperLarge single sheet is in good condition with light staining, creasing and wear. A tear from the seal results in a minor loss of text.
inkBrown ink varies in intensity.
noteworthyDue to the extreme difficulty of discerning Little’s hand, the transcribers have used their discretion with regard to letter case and spelling.
I recd your fav[guess: e]r of [guess: December] with [guess: Sunrdy]
Coppys of Letters (return you thanks for your good wiſhis) which give Great hopes that the Set time to fav[guess: e]r the [illegible]
Nativs is come — I Sent you laſt
[guess: December]
by way of Boſton (m.r Peck
[guess: care])
[guess: Sundry] goods as youll [guess: [guess: s]e]
pd
invoyce which our people &
m.r
[guess: Lowels] gave as we [guess: priſsed] them amounting to be little beter than £40
lawfull I hope youl have rec.d them before this their
[guess: wares] put up the begining of Decembr but ye cold hindered ye
veſil
Saling for ^a^ long time — if Re.d
mr
Ocom Should come with you it would I belive Serve the cauſe very much the objectns
Revd
mr
Whitiker
[illegible][guess: mentioned] when hear
againſt his coming I dont think are of waite:
peaple
hear are very deſirous of his coming: the Site of him would due much much more & to hear ye
Goſpel
prech.d by an Indian miniſter I am much pleſed with Peter hope when he comes to your
School you will keep him till he has Learned ye bible it may be of great Servis as then he may preach to his countrimen
ye pure Goſpell in their own Language —
pleſt to give my Respects to him & tell him I [guess: deſirig] his prayes for me & mine & Gods people hear: I wish he mite come with you &
Mr Ocom. pleſt to tel him God has dun
Greete things for ous
hear
laſt year & his Bleſed
Sprite is yet Striving, with a goodly numbur one Soul gives [illegible][guess: abundant]
evedence of being ^born^ of God laſt monday eveng at prvate
miting.— I Conclude with my Respct to you mr
Whitker
mr
Ocom
[gap: tear][guess: you &]
Spauſe
Son
&
famuely
& who[illegible]le School
intrate you to Rember us I wish you much very much Suckces in your Great undertaking rejoise to See it profte. I belive it will more & more: when you &
mr Ocom
&
Peter comes
pleſt to come rite to my houſe
& make it your home
from Mr Little
March 1st 1765.
To The Revd
Mr
Eleazer Wheelock In
Lebanon
[guess: Pr]
[illegible]
mr
Moſes Peck
Boſton
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