I received yours encloſing the Bills
last Fryday thank you kindly for your attention to the buſineſs
I thought it might be agreeable to you and
the Com==miſsioners in general to be informed that in com=
=pliance with
their direction; I have made application
to the neighbouring Miniſters for Ordination. incloſed
I send coppies which will give you the full infor=
mation of the buſineſs. conclude it is perfectly agree=
able to the wiſh of
the Board, who command the line
of
my conduct in the buſiniſs of my miſsion —
It was thought beſt I should be ordained at large
for several reaſons. There could be but few of my people
preſent.
Mr Kirkland has told me that he informd
the Board of some diſputes and Diviſions that had taken
place among my people laſt summer before my new
appointment. dont fully know in what light he
repreſented the matter. Think he could know but
little of their preſent situation and feelings to=
=wards me, in a view of my new
appointment having
had no oppertunity with them since laſt fall & the
begining of winter before they had knowledge of my
being again put into the miſsion. I have not time
Sir to relate to you the perticulars of their diſputes
will only mention, the diſpute began upon this
queſtion, wheather they had better take
Mr
Ocam or myself for their Miniſter, as he was about to
settle in a neighbouring Town, expecting to have
him part of the time and could support him eaſier
than myſelf — in their
^diviſion^ of the Tribe on the queſtion, there
were 30 for
Mr
O — 50 for myſelf. Since my new ap=
=pointment about half of the 30 have openly
left M
r
O.— I hant time Sir to mention some unkind mea=
=ſures
Mr
O — has taken to support his wiſh — but
only mention that the bigger half of my people are
so prej
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againſt
Mr
O — that I sincerely believe
if I was to leave them, they
would be the moſt un=
happy people in the world — in short
the Tribe broken
up, and come to ruin. Having theſe views
of their of their situation induced me to say what I
did
to
the Commiſsioners concerning the importance of
my Miſsion.
The
Chief, and only
supporter of
Mr Occoms Intreſt
made that speach to me which you find in my J
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This view of the situation of my people which is well known
to the gentlemen here,
has been another reaſon why my
ordination has been in the manner it is.
in the diviſion of the old profeſsors of religion belonging
to the
stockbridge church there were 10
Mr
O. 16 for myſelf.
I have written this Sir in ſome
haſt you will pleaſe to
excuſe it — my time very much taken up. I expect to set
out for the Wildnerneſs god willing tomorrow.
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may be
the means of union &
happineſs among my
people I know they have all a strong affection for me