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them very much for two of my Scholars that are pretty fur advanced in their Learning, please tosend them with my Father or Mother I am very scarce of Paper , I wish you could assist me inthat, as also with some Quills to make Writing Pens.
Please to send with my Mother the ten Pounds wh ctj I have with you yet, and I shall remainyour Brother, Philip Jonathan.
M R WEYMAN TO SIR W M JOHNSON,
ABOUT THE INDIAN PRAYER BOOK.
Sir, Your favour of August 22 d 1764, I received and duly complied with your Orders touchingy® advertisement, by inserting it in y e other News Papers of this City, besides my own.
Your Excellency’s request with Regard to the Indian Prayer Book, I can only answer by sayingThat the long Indisposition and Death of D 1 ' Barclay (which since ye writing of yours no doubtyou heard of) put a total Stop to its Progress, more than you have now inclosed, it not being in ourPower to revise or correct it at any Rate ; so that ’twill require your appointment of some properPerson to overlook it as we proceed in y e Composition. Before the Doctor’s Death he told me y eCopy he had was vastly eroneous, which took him up a good deal of time to correct, still doubtfullof his own Capacity, having not studied y e Language much since his Call here ; and partly had for-got it, but was determined to do his best—adding withal, That there was some Gentleman (hementioned his name to me but I forgot it) who had a more perfect Copy than his, and who under-stood y e Language at this time better than he did ;—I think he told me it was your Son, or one byy e Name of Claus , or Closser who then w r as absent at Quebeck, Montreal , or some other distant Partback of you, or y e D 1 ' would have wrote to have got it; and whether he ever signify’d it to you Icannot tell. Thus it rests. I have one half sheet of y e D r ’ s correcting in hand ; y e Remainder of y eCopy is at his Widdow’s, which I could obtain at your Request, and deliver it to any Person youcliuse should have y e Correction of it and y e work shall proceed directly, and be finished.
I am, Your Excellency’s Much obliged H blc Servant
W M Weyman.
READ. DR. WHEELOCK TO SIR WM. JOHNSON.
Sir The Commissioners of a Bord of Corrispondents, lately formd by a Comission of the Hon bleSociety in Scotland for Propagating Christian knowledge, some time ago sent M r . Occum, 1 to meetYour Honour, on Your Return from your late Tour to Lake Erie , in Hopes he might meet You
1 Samson Occom, an Indian clergyman , was born at Mohegan, near Norwich, Conn., in the year 1723. He was the firstIndian pupil educated at Lebanon , by the Rev. Mr. Wheelock, with whom he entered in 1742, at the age of 19, and remainedwith him 4 years. In 1748 he taught school in New London, and about the year 1755, w r ent to the east end of Long Island ,■where he opened a school for the Shenecock Indians. He was ordained by the Suffolk Presbytery in August, 1759. In Jan.H61, he visited the Oneidas, and in 1766 was sent by Mr. Wheelock to England with Mr. “Whittaker, the Minister of Norwich,to order to promote the interests of Moor’s School, as Mr. Wheelock’s institution at Lebanon was called. As Occum wasfoe first Indian preacher that visited England, he attracted large audiences and preached between three and four hundredsermons. About ,£1,000 were collected for establishing Schools among the American Aborigines. This was placed in theVol. IV. 28