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given me of your Friendship towards it will be esteemed a suffi
cient excuse for me and that your Honr will believe that I am with
the most sincere Respect
your most Obedt and most Humble Servt
ELEAZAR WHEELOCK.
Sir William Johnson Baronet.
REV. MR. WHEELOCK TO SIR WM. JOHNSON.
Lebanon September 8th 1762.
Sir,
Your Honour has no doubt been informed of a Legacy
of Sir Peter Warren of about Seven hundred and fifty Pounds
Sterling left in the hands of the Province of the Massachusetts
Bay, it being the Sum due to him from that Province, as his
Commissions for their pay from the Crown for taking Cape
Breton some Years ago, and which he gave to be by them
improved at Six pr Cent for the Education of the youth of the
Six Jrations. It has lain unimproved until last Fall, when I was
in Boston, I was informed of it, and preferred a Memorial to
the General Assembly there, and prayed for the use of it in this
School, in answer to which they Voted as you have seen, that I
should be allowed for the support of Six Youth of the Six Nations,
Twelve pounds lawful money for each, for one year, and
accordingly I have now obtained the Boys, and they are under
the best advantages if they have but the Wisdom to improve
them.
But there is since in and about Boston a Society incorporated
for Indian Affairs, which includes all the Scotish Commissioners,
many more to the Number of Eighty, and they have lately
found out, as I understand by Docr Chauncy, that the method
I am taking is not the best way to promote Religion and Learning
among the Six JVations, but a much likelier one is, by setting
up English Schools among them, the Children to live with their
Parents, and attend upon the School, their Parents to Support
them &c, and that they design to apply for the use of said