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all the pleasure and honors which he might have here among his friends, only to do you good. Ihope you will continue your kindness to him, and treat him as my child. I hope God will makehim an instrument of great good to the Indians.
I wish you all the happiness in this world and the world to come. I design by God ’s help to doall the good I can to the poor miserable Indians as long as I live; and when you can pray to God for yourselves, then pray also for me. I hope I shall live in heaven with many of you, and thatwe shall rejoice together in beholding our glorified Redeemer forevermore. Amen.
REYD M r WHEELOCK TO SIR W“ JOHNSON.
Sir, May it please your Excellency,
The Bearer, David Fowler, has been for some Time in this School; and is a youth of goodAbilities, whose activity fc Prudence, Fortitude & Honesty have much recommended him to me.He comes with Design if he meets with proper encouragment to settle down among the Oneyada’s(unless some other place more inviting presents) in the capacity of a School Master; and also (so faras that Business will allow) has a Design to set them an Example of Agriculture for his Support:and do what he can to recommend that manner of living to the Indians.
And if he can be accomodated to his mind he has Thoughts as soon as he has prepared a Habita-tion &c to return and marry a very amiable Girl, whom I have been educating for the Purpose, andwho will be a good Assistant in prosecuting the Design.
And as the Life and Success of the whole, under God , very much depends upon your Excel-lency’s countenance ; I have advised him to submitt the whole to your Direction and conduct, notdoubting but, so far as the crowd of your Affairs will allow, you will favour him with such Instruc-tions, and Recommendation, as you shall think needful, or useful for him.
If M r Kirtland’s Conduct, in Indian Affairs, has been agreable to you, and the Prospect of his use-fulness be such as is worthy Encouragment, a Recommendation from your Excellency would be ofgreat service therein.
I conclude you have seen in the public Prints, the Resolves of this Board of Corrispondents onthe 12 th ult°, to send severel Missionaries, and School Masters into your country. But having noFund, we have been seeking a meet Person to accompany M r Occom, or some other Indian from thisschool, to Europe to ask the Charity and Assistance of good people towards the support of the Planwe have laid.
The Board of Corrispondents in N. Jersey, have been applied to for M r Brainerd, 1 but for severalReasons he cant be obtained. I have now wrote M r Charles J. Smith to undertake in that affair,but who will be the man is not yet determined. M 1 ' John Smith Merch 4 in Boston is going to Englandin May or June, who will be employed in the affair so far as may be consistant with his Businessand Character, if no Clergyman can be obtained for that purpose. And a Recommendation of theAffair to Gentlemen at Home, by your Excellency, may be of very great service to the Furtheranceof it, and likely of much greater service to it than any other man’s, as your Connections are, andyour Character now rising in the Kingdom.
I Rev. John Brainerd was brother to the celebrated David B. and like him an Indian Missionary. He graduated in Talein 1746. His labours were chiefly among the Indians of New Jersey . He died in 1780