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them. As to the Boston Commissioners, ’tho’ I could have wished the Society had been before handwith them, yet, as you say, I cannot see how we can refuse their oifer. Please therefor in yourLetter to them to signify My assent to their proposal. I have not time to write to M r Bennet nowbut shall as soon as I have a certain acc lt of the State of Things amongst the Indians. If he ven-tures, I shall comply with my proposal as to Lodging and Board, till such Time as I conclude aBargain with Sir William Johnson who is treating with me for my Farm, for a Glebe for the IndianMissionary, as I have before informed you please inform M 1 ' Bennet of this.

As to the printing my letter to M r Apthorp, with Your piece, I should have no objection, if itwere not that I suspect mine to the Society in answer to Smith may still be published. Besides Ihave not a copy of it for I had no time to take one. I am however willing to do any thing YouShall judge useful. I am with usual Compliments.

Rev Sir Yours affectionately

Aug Bt 8-1763. Henry Barclay.

P. S. I have had a long letter from Rye intimating M r Palmers’ unwillingness to give up thatMission for N. Haven, and a growing disaffection to Mr. Punderson at Rye 2 M r Cooper was atWestchester on Sunday last and tells me he hears Mr. Punderson is endeavoring to make InterestThere

MR. WEYMAN TO REV. DR. BARCLAY.

CONCERNING THE INDIAN PRAYER BOOK.

Rev d Sir

I send a 2 d Proof to be revised by you.—I apprehend y e Corrections on our Side be not so exactas I could wish.—Please to peruse it a 2 d Time.—We are put to prodigious Difficulty to print suchLanguage (in form) in North America , where we have net the Command of a Letter-Maker’s found-ing-House to suit ourselves in y e particular Sorts required, such as— g’s — k’s — y’s —&c.—<§rc. when hadit been in y e English Tongue , we could make much greater Dispatch,—but at present ’tis absolutely

1 Kevd. Mr. Palmer was originally a Dissenting Minister of New England. He went to England with strong recommen-dations from the Revd. Dr. Johnson and other clergymen, and was ordained by the Bishop of Bangor in 1754. On his returnhe became missionary of the towns of New Milford, Sharon and Litchfield, Conn . In 1701, he was removed at his own request,to Amboy, N. J. On the recommendation of Dr. Johnson he was appointed successor to Mr. Wetmore at Rye, in 1763. Butthe congregation at this place preferred the Revd. Mr. Punderson, and the Society was requested to change Mr. Palmer,■which it declined. “ The people at Rye (says the Archb. of Canterbury , writing to Dr. J., March 1763.) may refine him ifthey will, and take the maintenance of Mr. Punderson on themselves, and we shall be very well pleased.” The difficultywas settled apparently, for we find Mr. Palmer at Now Haven in 1764. In 1769, he was missionary at Litchfield and GreatBarrington. His death is supposed to have occurred in 1772, for Mr. Mosely is mentioned as Missionary at Litchfieldin 1773.—En.

2 Ebenezer Punderson, graduated at Yale Coll, in 1720, and was a Congregational Minister at Groton, Conn . He con-formed to the Church of England about the year 1732. Having received orders in London in 1734, he organized a congrega-tion, on his return, in Norwich, at the village of Poquetanuck about the year 1738 His name appears on the Society ’s lists as“ Itinerant Missionary in Connecticut, ” until 1753, when he was settled in the church of N. Haven, the place of his nativity.In the spring of 1763, being succeeded by the Rev. John Beardslee, he took charge of the Church of Rye, 'Westchester Co. ,a nd officiated there and in the adjoining towns until the following year, when he died (22d Sept.) aged 60 years.— Ed.