We take Leave to inform your Excellency that the
Board of Correspondents
Commissioners in Connecticut of
the
Society in
Scotland for promoting Christian Knowledge did at their Meeting in
Lebanon the
2nd of this Instant July Vote
to send
some
suitable
persons to
Europe to solicit the Charities of
good people there for the Benefit of the
Indian Charity School under the Care of the Rev.
Mr. Wheelock, and for the support of
missionaries among the Indians. And as the Rev.Messrs.
Wheelock and
Whitaker are the persons we expect will go on that busi
ness, we have desired them to wait on your Excellency to desire
your Advice and assistance in it, and your Advice with respect
to the fixing a place for the said
Charity School, it being
necessary that a house
should be built to accommodate the same
and as it is judged expedient by some that it should be removed
nearer to the Indian Tribes, to ask your advice therein, and
your assistance to obtain the Royal Favour for a Charter for said
School, and any other things relative to it as they shall judge
proper. Perhaps your Excellency will think in the View of
the
whole Affair, that to settle
the School in
the
Indian Country will more than any other measure that can be
gone into contribute to promote the temporal and eternal
Welfare of the Indians; to advance
his Majesty's interest
the Peace of his North American Subjects, and that no
measure can raise so great and
lasting a Name and Honour
to your Excellency. If these things should appear to you in
such a Light, we assure
ourselves you will readily give
your Weight and Influence to such an important design
And we doubt not but if a good Plan was laid, and
a fair prospect opened for the extension
and greater usefulness
of this design, much greater Bounties might be obtained
to prosecute it, and even a Fund to perpetuate it.
But whatever your Thoughts are we
pray your Excellency
to
to give us your best
and
most friendly Advice. If the Gentlemen appointed
to wait on your
Excellency should through
Mr. Wheelock's
indisposition, or any other Act of Divine Providence
fail to attend you we pray you will
be so good as
to write your thoughts to us.