Edward Deake, letter, to Eleazar Wheelock, 1768 June 21
ms-number768371.2
abstractDeake writes that Hezekiah Calvin has returned home and is spreading stories of corruption and ill treatment at Wheelock’s school.
handwritingFormal handwriting is clear and legible. The handwriting is the same as on 765566.1, 767115.1, 767351.1, 767552, 767559, 767562.2, 767630.2, 767660.2, and possibly 767231 and 767251.
paperLarge single sheet is in good condition, with light creasing, staining and wear. The edges appear to have been trimmed.
inkBrown.
signatureThe signature, repeated after the postscript, is abbreviated.
I now acquaint you that Hezekiah
Calvin has been some time among y.e Indians in this place, and does not Design to return to you any more, but
is going to
Newport to get a Paſsage to Philadelphia. — Has also, given
Y.r
School a bad Charracter.— that you use y.e Indians very hard in keeping of them to work, & not allowing them a proper
Privelidge in y.e School, — that you have took from him his Silver Watch, &
Shoebuckels with other things which his Father gave him, — that there is large quantity's of Rice,
Coffe, Flower
& Sugars sent from y.e corporation in Scot land to support y.e Indians in your School, which you
Sell, together with y.e
Cloth's which are sent, &
Diot, &
Cloath them with That that's mean. — That y.e best Cloth's he has his Father gave him. — That Mary
Secutor, &
Sarah Simon has been kept on close to work,
as if they were your Slaves,
& have had no privelidge in y.e
School † nor one Co^p^per al low'd
ym for their Labour. — That Mary
ask'd for a small
peice of Cloth to make a p.r of Slippers, which you wou'd not allow her, — twas
to good for Indians &.c.. — That Jeams Simon is to be Bound to a Farmer. — That you wont
give no more of y.e Indians more learning than to Read, & Write — 'twill make them Impudent; for which they are all about to leave you. — So y.t
ye Indians are ready to conclude, that their Fellow-Indians will never receive
any great Bene fit of y.e Large sums of Money contributed by good People, to promote so good a Cause.
^[left]†Since last Fall,^
From, ſ.r your Hum.l
Serv.t
Edw.d Deake
P.S. The above has not enter'd my Heart as Truth.
I write in hast, Hope you'll excuse me.
E. Deake.
M.r
Edw.d Deakes
June 21. 1768
To the Rev.d
D.r
Eleazar Wheelock in
Lebanon
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