Nathaniel Whitaker, letter, to George Green, 1769 April 17
Date17 April, 1769
Call Number769267.2
abstractWhitaker writes, for publication, that Occom refused Episcopal ordination while in England, which highly displeased the Bishops.
handwritingThis document is in Occom’s hand; it is formal and clear.
paperLarge single sheet is in good-to-fair condition, with moderate creasing and wear.
inkBrown.
noteworthyThis document appears to be Occom’s copy of Whitaker’s letter. An editor, likely 19th-century, has added the note "Occom to printer. Episcopal offers" to one verso. This note has not been included in the transcription.
signatureThere is no signature.
EventsFundraising Tour of Great Britain
Sir
Name several times in Your Papers, pleaſe to
give it a place once more, and you will oblige
one of your true Friends —
ordination Soon after he arriv'd to London, which he
utterly refuſed, by which, (as he was repeatedly in‐
form'd) he highly diſpleaſed the Biſhops — and while
in England, he receiv'd a Line from the Rev.d Mr graves
of N. London in which, he hop'd. Mr Occom woud come
Home with Epiſcopal oridination, but having offended
[left] the Biſhops he concluded they woud not suppoſing he had
a mind to be ordain'd by 'em, which he had not the
leaſt inclination to, — and in his anſwere to Mr graves
he has the
out of the way, he shoud have said, Can't, fore he Sup‐
poſes, that it is not in the Power of all the Biſhops to
ordain a man againſt his will, — The Epiſcopal
Clergy in this Country, are wellcome to make, what
proſelytes among the Indians.