Yours via N. York and by
Marſhal and one Since
of
July 23.d have much refreſhed me, &
cauſed my Heart to
rejoyce in God, who hath not left off his loving kindneſs to
you and
M.r Occom, nor his Favours toward the great Deſign
on which you are Serving him.
I in close Letters from Meſs
rs
Saltar, and
Smith, and also capt
Shaws acco.
t if there be need that their Atteſtations be Authen
-ticated by Authority, only adviſe me of it, and it Shall be done.
As to what I myſelf know relative to their Sending
M.r
Moſely to
Onohaquagee, when they fully knew that we had Supplyed
y.
t
Paarty of Indians according to the deſire of
good Peter who
was their Meſsenger, and came on that very Errand. you, as
well as I, and all our Country,
know, what Abuſive
& Injurious
Repreſentations they made of the narrative of that remarkable
meeting of the three Parties,
from So great a Diſtance, and
without the leaſt knowledge of each others Deſign; and they
fully know by the Same Narrative that
M.r Smith was appointed
to Serve them, and had accepted of it. And
you also know that
when we were together at
Boſton in the beginning of June
M.r Oliver told us, they had no Miſs
y about to go out, nor any that
he knew of
thatwho their Eyes
were upon Whom they had their Eyes
upon. I aſked
M.r Eliot a few Days after in the Town House (but
am not certain
that you was preſent) Whether they had any
Miſ
y to imploy this year? he told me they had none. I told
him that we had agreed to imploy
M.r Gunn as Interpreter
provided they did not imploy him. He told me he did not
know of any Service they Should have for him.
you also
know how importunate
M.r Forbes was that I would relay
M.r Smith to be imployed in their Service, and how repeated-
-ly he urged it when we were
at
Boſton. and once in parti-
-cular at
M.r Smiths.
Sometime after I came Home, and after the Miſseonaries
were gone on their Miſsion I heard that
M.r
Moſeley had been
in vited, and was gone to
Boſton, to accept of that Miſsion
after he had accepted it he came to my House, &
Shewed me
the votes of
that Board. viz.
£100 Sterl
g for his Service a
year, and, if I dont forget £30. Sterl
g for
M.r Hawley to
accompany & introduce him. I aſked him if he did not know
that
M.r Smith was gone to the Same Place he ſaid he did, I
aſkd how then did he expect to be introduced there. he replyd
that
M.r Hawley was
imployd^appointed^ to introduce him. & they Suppoſd
that
M.r Hawleys long Acquaintance with, and Intereſt in
the Indians there, was Such that there would be no Difficulty
in
removing
M.r Smith. However the
Com̅iſs.rs had ordred them
not to make an open Breach in the Sight of the Indians. I
Supposed by his Reply that he did not underſtand so much of the
affair
Affair as I did, which I wondred at, Since there had been So much
talk in y.
e Country about their Appearing in Opposition to me &c.
after
M.r Smith's return he told me he beleived
M.r
Moſeley had
been greatly imposd upon. that he expected two or three hundred
Sterling inſtead of one, and
M.r Smith
tho't, if He (
M.r
Moſely)
had diſcourſed with the
Com̅iſsrs before he had manifeſted
to
M.r Forbes, his Willingneſs to accept, he never wo
d have
accepted, of y.
e
Miſsion. I have entertaind no uncharitable tho'ts
of
M.r Hawley in y.
s Affair; he acted in the dark as a Servant to
his Imployers; and I have good reaſon to think that he has re-
-flected with much Regrett, that he was Inſtrumental to remove
so pious learned
^& well accompliſhed^ a man as
M.r Smith from his Service among that
poor pp., for whom he had conceived a great Affection, and likely
he may regrett the needleſs Expence of So much of Chriſts money,
not only in his needleſs Journey but in keeping
M.r Bowman and
M.r Rice So long in half pay. If the Indians had not been
So long
without any Teacher among them, excepting my
Woolley in the Capacity of School Maſter (Which if I remember
right, was towards three years after
M.r Bowman left them,
and they also had not known that the Indians
were well ſupplied,
before they moved at all to get a Miſs
y, their Zeal in this matter
might have gained the Charity of all, and Eſcaped the Cenſures which
they have ſuffered by it —
This imperfect acco.t is according to the beſt of my Rememberance in too much haſt.
I am not able with any Certainty to come at what I rec.
d of the
Boſton
Com̅iſsrs towards
M.r Occoms Support while he
was with me, as my Book of Acco
ts at y.
t Day was Small, and
I thought nothing of any future use for it when the accts
were all Settled — however I beleive the
Com̅iſsrs paid all the
Acco
ts
w.
c I Sent them. 'till I was perfectly tired of applying to
them, and was fully convinced that I
could eaſier get a Support
for him by begging of a few well diſposed
perſons than by ſuch
a Tedious dependance upon them, and So I found it by Exper
eince when I made the Trial.
M.r Occom was never lookd upon as their Schollar nor under
their Controul — perhaps if he had So been they might have made
him more their Care.
Their Approbation was not ſought, nor
did I ever under Stand, they ever deſired or expected it, when
he went from me to take
M.r Hortons place on
the
Island
After the
Commiſsirs had done what they did for him, (which
was the greater part of
his Support for Several years) I apply
d to
our Aſsociation, who made a Collection among themſelves
for my Aſsiſtance
there in — but as
our Aſsoc.n are Appointed
to meet at
M.r Williams's this week, I will mention the
Affair to them, and tranſmitt to you what light they
can give. It may be they have Some Records of Facts,
as it
was by their advice that I firſt made Application to the
Com̅iſs.rs
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