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any straggling Indians they may meet with on the Lake for which
service the above Gentlemen will make the Indians who attend
them a reasonable Present.
Given under my Hand and Seal
at Ilead Quarters in New York, [ L. s. ]
this 17th Day of March, i769
THOS. GAGE.
By his Excellency's Command
G. MATURIN Jr.
* * Great preparations were made to observe the above Transit, (which was to
take place on 3d June 1769,) as another would not occur until 1874. It was
observed on this continent, by Samuel Holland, Esq. at Quebec; by T. Wright,
at Isle au Coudre; by Prof. Jno. Winthrop, at Cambridge, Mass.; by Joseph
Brown, at Providence, R. I.; by Rev. Dr. Smith, at Philadelphia; by Messrs.
Biddle and Bailey at Lewiston, Del.; by John Leeds, at Annapolis, Md.; by
Messrs. Wales and Dymond, on the N. W. coast of Hudson's Bay; and by Abbe
Chappe at California. Dr. Harris of Cambridge informs me, that THOMAS DANFORTH, mentioned above, was probably the son of Hon. Judge Samuel Danforth,
of Cambridge, (Saml. was son of Rev. John, of Dorchester, and Rev. John was
son of Rev. Saml. of Roxbury-all distinguished for mathematical attainments,)
-graduated at Harvard College, 1762, was Tutor there from 1765 to 1768, settled
as a lawyer in Charlestown, Mass., and died in 1820. JosEPH WILLARD graduated at Harvard College, 1765, was Tutor 1766 to 1772, and afterwards President
of the College. He died in 1804. It is not knovn whether these gentlemen went
to Michilimakinac; I can find nothing of their Journey thither in print.-ED.
JOHN RAND TO REV. DR. AUCHMUTY.
Reverend Sir
Receiving Information that last Week you being in Company
with several Revd Gentlemen: some one taking Occasion to
speak of my being in the Province & of my Design with respect
to A Living, there appeared in yourself & others, A willingness
to countenance me in my undertakings. Verily S1r there are no
Favours which I so gratefully notice as those of this Kind. As
to my leaving the School at Rye, to engage in the same employ
at Fort Johnson, I am pleased with the Motion,-maugre the
Consideration of Salary in one Place & the other: hopeing that