David Crosby, letter, to Eleazar Wheelock, 1768 March 12
Date12 March, 1768
ms number768212.1
abstractCrosby writes asking to be admitted to the school and expressing his desire to be useful.
handwritingFormal handwriting is clear and legible. The trailer is in an unknown hand.
paperLarge sheet folded in half to make four pages is in good-to-fair condition, with light-to-moderate staining, creasing and wear.
inkBrown.
layoutThe first page of the letter is on one recto, but the second page is on two recto, not one verso.
Persistent Identifier
Reverend &
honour'd
Doc.r
The laſt time you was pleaſed to honour me with yr
compony in Your Stody. You was pleaſ'd to obſerve that you alow'd
yr
Scholors, freequently to write to you, and of Things indeferend, when Things of greater Importence
did not accru. By which meens as you ſaid, you [illegible]had the Advantage of making Obſervations, uſeful to yourſelf, as well as of gaining oppertunity to ſet them right in their notions of Things. And although I may not as yet
claim the right of a Scholar, yet I muſt
o[illegible]
oan, that the deſires I feel, [illegible][guess: and] hope I cheriſh, and deſires I feel of being Sone time or other, ſo
to happy as to be taken ^into yr
ſervis and^ under you care and — protection, has moved me at this
time to uſe a[illegible]
Li‐burty, which perhaps will not be granted. I do not meen
by this to ſugjeſt as though I thought that any Thing I could write could be of Advantage to you, Yet as I know it is in the goodneſs of your Nature to do good to all Men,
ſo I am incoureged to hope, that it may by ſome
meens, or‐ other give you O^p^pertunity of doing good to me. and whatever I have writ or may write, I beg you would
correct as you may ſee
occaſion, but Indulgue me at this time with fling‐ing myſelf a[illegible]t yr Feet and requeſting the Thing of you, you was pleaſ,d to obſerve I ſtood in ſo much need of viz. of being in yr
Houſe
&
ſchool, to be made acquainted with good Rules, & taught to follow good Examples, in order thereby to be the better fitted
for futer
Uſefulneſs. I am ſo
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annimated
ywith deſires of being made ſerviſable to God, and uſeful to my fellow Men, the little time I may yet
hbe continued in Life, as that I am impatient of Delay If you could ſee it in your wWay to let me come into
yr
Famoly
&
ſerve with yr
meeneſt
ſervents, methinks I ſhould count no ſerviſes
to hard, nor nothing too dear to [illegible]part
with, to porches
ſhuch a Faivour. If it ſhould
ſeem good to you ſir, to make uſe of ſhuch a Method in order to be better aquainted with my Motives &
ſincear
deſires
&
popoſes, I can aſſure you [illegible] there can be no Method I can
think of that ſo much falls in with my own Inclination ofr for which I ſhould look on myſelf more obligated to you. If it should ſeem good to you to make
tryal in this Way, as I obſerv'd: and after all you ſhould
^[left]not^ think fit to imploy me in any ^futer
^
ſervisſs whereby [illegible]I might make you
amends for the Pains and trouble I may give you, yet I hope thro' the bleſsing of a kind Providence, and the ſmiles of Heaven on an honeſt
Induſtery, to be enabled to make you amends ſome o‐ther way. But as I fear I have already been too preſuiming I ſhall only add that I beg yr Prayers to Almighty God for me, that I might be keept
continualy in his Love Fear, &
ſerviſ. aAs alſo that I am,
Reverand Sir P
In all [illegible]Reſpects
& Obedience yours to ſerve
David Croſby
Lebanon
March 12th} 1768}
David Crosby's
March 12[gap: stain][guess: th] 1768
To the Reverend Doctor
Eleazer Wheelock
Paſtor of a Church of Chriſt in Lebanon
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