Edward Deake, letter, to Eleazar Wheelock, 1768 June 21
Date21 June, 1768
Call Number768371.2
abstractDeake writes that Hezekiah Calvin has returned home and is spreading stories of corruption and ill treatment at Wheelock’s school.
handwritingFormal handwriting is clear and legible. The handwriting is the same as on 765566.1, 767115.1, 767351.1, 767552, 767559, 767562.2, 767630.2, 767660.2, and possibly 767231 and 767251.
paperLarge single sheet is in good condition, with light creasing, staining and wear. The edges appear to have been trimmed.
inkBrown.
signatureThe signature, repeated after the postscript, is abbreviated.
Modernized Version Deletions removed; additions added in; modern spelling and capitalization added; unfamiliar abbreviations expanded.
has been some time among the Indians in this place, and
does not Design to return to you any more, but is going to
Newport to get a passage to Philadelphia. — Has also, given
your School a bad character.— that you use the Indians very
hard in keeping of them to work, and not allowing them a proper
privilege in the School, — that you have took from him his
Silver Watch, and shoe buckles with other things which his
Father gave him, — that there is large quantities of Rice,
coffee, flour and Sugars sent from the corporation in Scot
land to support the Indians in your School, which you Sell,
together with the clothes which are sent, and diet, and clothe
them with That that's mean. — That the best clothes he has
his Father gave him. — That Mary Secutor, and Sarah Simon
has been kept on close to work, as if they were your Slaves,
and have had no privilege in the School † nor one Copper al
lowed them for their Labour. — That Mary asked for a small
piece of Cloth to make a pair of Slippers, which you would
not allow her, — it was too good for Indians etc.. — That James
Simon is to be Bound to a Farmer. — That you wont give
no more of the Indians more learning than to Read, and Write
— it will make them Impudent; for which they are all
about to leave you. — So that the Indians are ready to conclude,
that their Fellow-Indians will never receive any great Bene
fit of the Large sums of Money contributed by good People, to
promote so good a Cause.
†Since last Fall,
Edward Deake.