I wrote you the other Day under many
Diſadvantages of Body & Mind, & upon Recollection find I
gave but a very imperfect Anſwer to your Letter, I men‐
tioned a Bill drawn in fav
r of
Mr Breed for £160 I should
have said £180 And with reſpect to Bills to be drawn for
the future, as
Mr
^Moſes^ Peck
^watch Maker^ is my factor in
Boſton, it may be neceſsa‐
‐ry that he should sometimes draw in my Stead w
ch Bills I woud
pray you to honour as if signed by myſelf, and no others unleſs
further adviſed, As to large sums for building that muſt re‐
‐main in suſpence
till I have further Advice from you, or till
God in his Providence shall point out the moſt convenient place
to fixe the School, w
ch I wait to have determined by its friends
on your side the Water,
^&
yt^ for this reaſon, bec.
s so large numbers
have intereſted
y
mſelves in y
t Matter & each party ſo
engagd
to have it in y
e place y
a have reſpectively fixed upon, and
many viewing y
e advantages &
Conveniencies of each place in so par‐
‐tial a manner that great
numbers muſt
neceſsarily be diſobliged
let it be fixed where it will, and perhaps some diſagreeable reflec‐
tions &
cenſures be incurrd if it should be determined by myſelf
^and eſpecially if it Shod be in Favour of my own Intereſt.^
w
ch may be of real &
laſting
diſservice to the Cauſ,
for which reaſon it has
^therefore^ been my declared purpoſe to refer y
e Determination of y
s matter to
its moſt important friends
on your side the Water
^with you^. I wait in hopes
there may be
some
^an^ opening to y
e
weſtward
w
ch may exhibit such
proſpects as
may
^shall^
conſtrue outbid all others, I am waiting for an anſwer
from
Mr Brainerd relative thereto, I wonder to hear nothing more f
m
Gen.l Lyman, you kindly propoſed the sending me a liſt of the moſt
important Subſcribers to this Deſign, w
ch I apprehend may be of real
Service, & accordingly
^Shall^ hope to be favourd with it in your Next X
[left]X Pleaſe
S.r
alſo to adviſe what gentlemen or whether any are to be addreſsed with my thanks on yt head & whether his
Majeſty
woud likely accept something of that Nature, & if any Pleaſe to inform ^me^ of their titles &
any thing as to manner of Addreſs
wch you may think neceſsary for one in so obſcure a Corner)
The Youth
I expect from the Wilderneſs are not yet returned and am at a loſs for the
reaſon of their tarrying so much beyond the time appointed what new
intelligence
ythey shall bring you may expect by the firſt conveyance
as alſo an Acc.
t of a remarkable occurance among the Indians weſtward
of
Philadelphia as soon as I can
obtain a circumſtantial
Acc
t of it —
Mr Whitaker informs of the Difficulties he encounters from a Letter
wrote by
Mr Oliver
^Letter^ in y
e Name of
the Board ^of London Com̅iſsrs in Boſton^
[left]*and repreſents
y.t it ^is of^
woud [illegible]
iportance that some inſinuations in said Letter eſpecially that I reported y.t
Mr Occom was a mohawk lately
emerged from groſs
paganiſm
^&c^ be effectually contradicted — Upon wch I woud only obſerve
*
Mr Occoms Character has been so long and
so publickly known to gentlemen in all our Governments, as
^to^
woud render it
equably
^near as^ impertinent to take pains to contradict a report of
his being a
Mohawk lately
emerged &c as of his being an engliſh Man if such a r
[gap: tear][guess: ep]ort
had ever been propagated