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PAPERS RELATING TO THE SIX NATIONS,
REV. DAVID ZISBERGER TO MR. PETERS.
Mr. Peters I am to inform you that I was obliged to take an Indian Guide to shew me the wayto Wyomink as the whole country was covered with snow and the weather the severest I everknew I agreed to give him three Pounds for himself and his horse and to find provisions for him,w ch with other Expences hath cost me five Pounds this Journey and I hope you will not think fivepounds too much for my trouble considering how many days it hath taken up and what danger Ihave been in I am
Sir Your most humble servant David Zisberger.
Rece’d ten pounds for my Journey with S r . W m . Johnsons Letter to Teedyuscung at Wyomink& and bringing his answer to Philadelphia .
April 5 lh 1762. David Zisberger.
*,* See Loskiel’s Hist, of the Moravian Missions, part ii. 197, for some particulars of this visit. A sketch of Zeisberger ’slife will be found in Allen’s Biog. Diet. —Ed.
EDWARD JOHNSON, SCHOOL MASTER AT TUSCARORA, TO SIR W. JOHNSON.
Tuscarora Castle April y e 10 th 1762.
Most Worth S r .
Yours I received on the 12 of March Date Jan r y 30 th and Indeed S r I thank you very kindlyfor the many favours your honour has Been pleased to bestow’ on me But In Deed S r much more sofor your last S 1 '. It hapens so that I Cant at this time Come my Self and thefore must rely on yourown Goodness : but I have sent by as trusty a hand I thinck as any I Could Geet for indeed he seemsto be the truest to me of any of them and he is a Christian if there is one any where amongstthem : S r . I owe to the value of three pounds which I have taken up since I begun to teach thesepeople : and I have had no opertunity of Earning any thing for myself for these people will givenothing. S r I tell your honor of all that has hapened me. There is here two sorts people the one isfor the religion and the other is not and that Party is allways striving to hurt me by w’ords andsome times allmost to the taking of my life but with the help of God I stand it though with GreatDifficulty and Danger. S r Ihave been at onidia and had there 18 Scholars and I have teached so longthat the are Come to 4 Shurly s r . you know as well as I that at this Time of the year the arescattered Every where, but I believe when the minister Comes there will be a Great many more thatwill Learn our tongue, but S r there has been here at onidia som o the other sort of people whichtold them that the English wanted these to take up w’ith our religion and then the land will be alltheirs But I have told to the Contrary and tell them that it [is] for the Good of their Souls that theEnglish wants to learn them and not for lands for they have land Enough I Beg S r your honour willGive no heed to fals storeys for the bearer of this will [convince] you to your own satisfaction.
S r Pray pardon me for being to tedious if your honour Pleaseth to send : if you Pleas to send it bythe bearer Isaac or his father and one line to let me know what and How much S c Powder is veryscears and Provision not very Pleanty if you Pleas to answer this S r I rest Myself your humbleServant. Edward Johnson.
S r The Scholers are Gone to hunting and I am Gowing to Isaacs hous at Connosomothdian whereI believe I shall stay till he Comes back a Gain.