I receiv
d your
James not to
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pleaſe
myself but at your earneſt
Deſire by your Daughter
Sarah,
Who told me
you had
tgiven him to me to bring up and deſpoſe
of as my own Son, and only upon such Conſiderations I took
him, and have kept him to School ever since he has been
with me till about three Weeks ago, I hired a Man to take
him & instruct him in Husbandry which I found he was who
lly
ignorant of, and next winter I deſign
d to take him into
the School again, & fit him as faſt as I can for a School,
Maſter, & when he is fit for it I deſign
d to put him into good
Buſineſs as I would a Child of my own — Theſe were my Vi
^e^ws
& so I understood your proposal by
your
Daughter — but if I
have not understood you right — if you
intend to take him
away from me, or encourage his going away as others have
done
after I have been at great Expence to educate him;
or when he has half got his Education, I inſist upon it that
you let me know it now, before I spend any more Money
to
be thrown away upon him, there are hundreds who
would be glad to come into his Room
and be at my dispoſe as
much as my own Children are — —
Pleaſe to send me word what I may depend upon, and if you chuſe to have him come back to you, I aſsure you I dont want to Keep him, as I never had any view but to his Good and
the Good of the Indians in my taking him at firſt — —
you may depend upon it if he tarries with me I shall take the
moſt
Affectual Method to learn him Husbandry as well as
to read and wright, — pleaſe to let
Mr Deake see this and
deſire him to write your Anſwer to me — It greives
&
breaks my Heart that while I am wearing my Life out to
do good to the poor
Indians, they themselves have no more Deſire
to help forward the great Deſign of their Happineſs here
and Eternal Salvation in the World to come, but are so
many of
them, and some of them too, thoſe on whom I have
beſtowed much Pains &
Coſt pulling the other way and as
faſt as they can undoing all I have done. Oh! that God
would shew them their Miſery, and the only way of their Relief.
Your Daughter
Sarah carries
herself very well, but I
think it not beſt she should come home to viſit you till
the Fall — I wiſh you Proſperity with all my Heart
and am
P.S. The Conditions
I upon which I take all the Engliſh
Boys in my School are, that if they leve me before they
have got their Learning, or go into other Buſineſs
after wards that pleaſes them better than the Indian
Service they shall pay me all the Expence of their Learn
ing. and I think the Reaſon is as good with reſpect
to your Son
James —