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before the Parties from remold Tribes, who had joyn’d you, should be dispersed ; in Order to makeProposals to them of Receiving Missionaries, and School Masters among their respective Tribes.But when M*. Occum came to N. York and heard that you was got Home, he was thereupon advisedto return, and accordingly did so ; by which Means I was prevented such a supply of proper youthfor this school as I hoped he, with your assistance, and Direction, might obtain from Tribes moreremote than I have yet had. Which Disappointment is, in part, the occasion of the present troublegiven your Honour.
The Bearers M r . Kirtland, and Joseph Woolley, 1 come to submitt themselves to your Hon rsDirection and conduct with Desire to learn the Seneca and Mohock Languages, and while theyare doing that to teach school among them also, if it may be, to procure a Number of likely andsuitable, youth for this school. We have heard of a promising English Youth, whom you have sentto King Thomas at Onoquagee, and also of one, Peter, a judicious, and religious Indian there, andalso of two likely Indian Boys whom M r Forbush pointed out to the Commissioners in Boston , for anEnglish Education . If Your Hon r advises to any, or all of these, and they may be obtained, Iwill take them, or any others you shall think proper, to the number of 10. or 15. and if you thinkbest to send several Females to be instructed in Housewifery &c I will receive them.
If there shall be occasion for Woolley to return to accompany the Children hither, please to Orderhim to do so, and if there be no Door open for their attaining the other End of their Journey, theywill both Return.
I rely upon the repeated assurances Your Hon r has given me of your Friendship in this affair,and in Confidence thereof, recommend these young men to your Hon 1 ' 8 Patronage, and submitt thewhole to your Determination.
The Boys, I have from Your Parts behave very well, better than any I have had from any otherQuarter; and it seems to me they are really a much better Breed, little Peter is a fine Geniusindeed. But off' their state, and the state of my school M r . Kirtland can inform you.
I look upon myself in particular, as well as, upon my country in general, to be much indebted toYour Honour for Your indefatigable and (hitherto) successful Labors, to establish a Peace withthe Natives, upon a sollid and lasting Foundation. May God requite Your Labour rod Fatiguewith that peace which is the peculiar privilege of his chosen. I am with most sinceiv k uty andEsteem, may it please Your Honor.
Your Honour’s Most obedient and
Most Humble Servant
Eleazar Whf.ei.ocr.
hands of Trustees of whom the Earl of Dartmouth was the principal, and Dr. Wheelock’s School was removed to Hanover ,N. H. On Occum’s return he labored among his countrymen, and removed eventually in 1786 to Brotherton, near Utica , N.T., whither many Mohegans and Montauks accompanied him, and where he died in July 1792, aged 69. He was accompaniedto the grave by upwards of 300 Indians. An account of the Indians of Montauk , by Occum, is published in the Mass: Hist:Coll. He published a sermon at the execution of Moses Paul at New Haven , Sept. 2, 1772, and much of his correspondenceis among the papers of the Hist. Soc. of Hartford, Conn. A portrait of him was published in one of the early Vols. of theEvangelical Mag. McClure’s Life of Wheelock—Life of Countess of Huntington.
1 Joseph 'Woolley was a Delaware . He was sent by Dr. John Brainerd to Dr. Wheelock’s school, where he arrived withHezekiah Calvin, another Delaware , 9 April 1757. He spent the winter of 1764, at Onohoghquage for the purpose at learningthe Iroquois language. He was licensed to teach in the spring of 1765, and set out shortly after with Rev. Mr. Smith, on hisreturn to bis previous post at the Susquehannah river, but he fell sick at Cherry Valley, and died in the course of the samevear. He is represented as of an amiable disposition and polished manners.—En.