Jacob Johnson, letter, to Eleazar Wheelock, 1769 June 15

Sir the State of my Family & my own very Indifferent State of health has been &is the Reaſon why I have not Seen you ſir of Lebanon e'er now My wife has been &is poorly & 2d Daughter who is under the Drs Care My Negro man &Chief Stay in my outdoor buſineſs Dyed laſt week after 9 days illneſs So that I am left weak — I have Sent 3 or 4 Letters to Let you know of these things — I came as far as Newent with my Daughter but coudnt come further The Dr being at Preſton &c & I was obligd alſo to be at home — And beſides as Mr Huntington I Suppoſe is gone for Oneida & Mr Kirkland will probably be down the Latter end of this Month or beginning of next I propoſe to see you then if poſsible — The Times look threatning at Home & abroad — our help is in God onely - Some great overture seems to be near — The nation & Land Seems ripening faſt for deſtruction — if meer ſovereign grace does not interfere — It will likely be trouble — ſome if not dangerous for the Miſsionaries among the Indians this Summer The ſix nations take here the Oneidas expect war & we hear the foreign Indians are muſtering for that purpoſe about & beyond Detroit the quadruple alliance carries an ominous aſſpect — But our God can yet we may be ſure will over-rule all for Zions good & his own glory and that's enough to quiet our Minds

To the Rev & Hondhi>. DrEleazr. Wheelock Lebanon

Revd. Jacob Johnſon June 15, 1769