Isaac Dakayenensere and Adam Waonwanoron, letter, to Eleazar Wheelock, 1765 July 31
Date15 August, 1771
Call Number765431
abstractDakayenensere and Waonwanoron write to say that they are ready and willing to receive missionaries and to accept help in setting up mills and learning husbandry. They warn that they will not sell their land.
handwritingUnknown hand is clear and legible.
paperSingle sheet is in fair-to-good condition, with light wear and staining.
inkFaded brown.
noteworthyThis doucment is possibly a copy. For Wheelock's response to this letter, see document 765469.
signatureTwo signatures appear to be in the same hand.
Modernized Version Deletions removed; additions added in; modern spelling and capitalization added; unfamiliar abbreviations expanded.
senger, that we sent you last Spring, that you would
not only assist us by sending us ministers to
teach us Christianity; but also that you would
assist us, in setting up husbandry, by sending a Num
ber of white people to live with us; who when come
should build us Mills, teach us husbandry, and furnish us
with Tools for husbandry etc.—
we greatly rejoiced at hearing of it, and expected
them this Spring; but are disappointed, at which we
are very sorry; but we hope that we may yet re
ceive them, and should much rejoice in it should
you send them to us —
we have no thoughts of selling our Land to any that
come to live among us; for if we should sell a little
land to any, by and by they would want to buy a little
more and so our Land would go by Inches 'til we should
have none to live upon — yet as those who come to
instruct us must live, we have no objections against
their improving as much Land as they please; yet the
Land shall remain ours
yet for any to assist us, but only those that come with
Gods News; yet as you have offered to assist us like
wise in teaching of us husbandry, we greatly rejoice
in it; and think that they should go together, the one
as well as the other; and that we want instruction in
both.
your Brethren. Isaac Dakayenensere
& Adam Waonwanoron