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in brotherly Love at Wiealusing on the Susquehannah possessing the same Mind with Us to lead apeaceable and quiet Life in all Godliness & Honesty under the British Government.

This Infant Indian Settlement, which we now have the Pleasure of seeing in a prosperous Situation,We beg Leave to recommend with our Missionaries, to Your Excellency’s Kind Notice andProtection.

In this View I have the Pleasure of transmitting to Your Excellency the Greenland History in 2VoK wrote by David Cranz one of our Brethren ; which we beg Your kind Acceptance of. The firstVol: Containing a Description of the Country and the natural Curiosities of that cold Climate, I flattermyself, may not prove Unentertaining and the second, I imagine will convey to Your Excellency thetruest and best Idea of the Brethrens Method of propagating the Gospel amongst the Savage Nations.

For this Purpose also this History has been presented to their Majesties the King and Queen, theMinisters of State, Bishops & Board of Trade &c. &c.

In Behalf of the Members of the Brethren’s Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel amongstthe Heathen I have the Honour to subscribe myself

Your Excellency’s most obed 1 Humble Servant

John Arbo, Secretary,

SEC. OF THE SOCIETY FOR PROP. THE GOSPEL TO SIR W M JOHNSON.

Sir, It is a great satisfaction to the society to be informed, that you perfectly approve theirresolutions, with regard to Indian Missionaries, & Catechists, & are very desirous of seeing somepart of the scheme carried immediately into execution. This is a point we have constantly kept ourattention upon ; and are truly sorry that we have not yet been able to engage any proper person toUndertake that employment. We had good hope that some of the more approved & experiencedamong the Clergy in your parts, who from their knowledge of the Indians, & their acquaintancein the neighbourhood, & especially from that countenance which you would naturally give them,might become likely to have the best Success, would not have been unwilling to have taken thisappointment; especially when they had some kind of assurance that a larger salary than usualWould have been allowed on such an occasion D r Auchmuty tells me, that he has done every thingin his power to forward our Scheme, but without success. “ Perhaps, says he because the Clergydo “ not care to leave a certainty for an uncertainty.” We therefore desire you to inform us, whatyou think would be a proper allowance to offer to a Miss r y for this department: The Society areready to concur to the utmost extent of their abilities to carry on so beneficial a design; tho’indeed their income is far too scanty of itself alone & without some good assistance to forward it inthe manner they wish. I have the honor to be with the most perfect esteem & respect.

Your most Obed 1 humble Servant

Abingdon Street Westminster Feb ry 1 st 1768. D. Burton. 1

1 Rev. Daniel Burton, D. D., chancellor of the diocese of Oxford and Rector of St. Peter’s Poor, London , was for manyTears Secretary to Dr. Seeker, Arclib. of Canterbury, to whose will he was also executor. He was raised to the dignity ofCanon of Christ Church, Oxford , on 24th June, 1760, and in 1761 succeeded Dr. Bearcroft as Secretary to the Society forPropagating the gospel, which office he held until 1773, when he, in his turn, was succeeded by the Rev. Dr. Richard Hind.Harriot Burton, his only daughter, married (Aug. 15, 1773,) the Hon. John, afterwards Lord, Trevor, Minister plenipoten-tiary to the diet at Ratisbon, in 1780, and to the court of Sardinia in 1783. This nobleman dying (1824) without issue, the titleis now extinct. Dr. Burton died on the 23d April, 1775. He had the character of a very pious, sensible, diligent, carefuland disinterested man.—E d.