Connecticut Board of Correspondents, letter, to Sir William Johnson, 1765 July 17

Author Connecticut Board of Correspondents of the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge

Date17 July, 1765

Call Number765417.4

abstractThe Connecticut Board writes to Sir William Johnson, seeking his advice and support for a plan to send Wheelock and Whitaker to Europe to raise funds for the Indian Charity School, and to obtain a Royal Charter for a new location. Wheelock appends a note saying that he forgot to enclose the Board’s letter with one written by Wheelock and sent by Occom.

handwritingUnknown hand is largely clear and legible.

paperLarge single sheet is in fair condition, with moderate creasing, staining and wear.

inkBrown.

signatureThere are three signatories, with Wheelock's signature after the addendum. The signatures are all in the same hand.

noteworthyThis document is almost certainly a copy.

EventsFundraising Tour of Great Britain

Modernized Version Deletions removed; additions added in; modern spelling and capitalization added; unfamiliar abbreviations expanded.

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Sir

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.
We are Sir, with great Respects,
 Your Excellency's most obedient
 humble Servants
Solomon Williams
Benjamin Pomeroy
Richard Salter
{Committee
{of the Board
{of Correspondents
To his Excellency Sir William Johnson
Lebanon 17th July 1765

Honoured Sir
I ask your Excellency's Pardon for my Inad­
vertency when I sealed my Letter to you by Mr. Occom
this Morning I forgot to enclose the Letter from the Committee
of the Board of Correspondents which occasions you and me
this Trouble. I hope it may by some kind hand seasonably
reach you.
from
Your Excellency's
most obedient
humble Servant

Eleazar Wheelock
Letter: to Sir William Johnson
by Messrs. Williams
Pomeroy and
Salter.
July 17. 1765

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