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supposed want of opportunitys to instruct the Indian Children In Agriculture and the ManuelArts that the Immediate Environs of this City are Inhabited by farmers whom if we may be allowedto Judge of their skill Industry and Occonomy from the affluence of their Circumstances acquiredonly by Husbandry, we shall not hesitate to rank them in the first class of husbandmen and as theseChildren will not require to be taught any other manual arts then such as will serve towards pro-cureing the immediate necessarys and more Simple Conveniencies of life these too may both beobtained in this City. We could have wished that your son and the Reverend M r Pomory hadCommunicated to us the Intention of their Journey when they were here at the time you mentionthey would have had no reason to Complain of any Coldness in us nor indeed can w'e be Chargedwith any as we do not know that those Gentlemen were ever here otherwise then by your Letter.
We thank you Sir for those sentiments of good will that you Express to Entertain for us we hopeyou will have no occasion to Change them and we should be happy to have you in this Neighborhoodthat you might experience repeated Instances of our’s towards you.
We have read your published account of the School since its beginning it has confirmed ouropinion that your whole Conduct has been with a view 7 to Promote religion and the happiness ofmankind may God In whose holy worship you are attempting to instruct the uninformed SavagesCrowm all your endeavors w 7 ith success and Give you to see the accomplishment of your Good workand when it shall Please him as the supreame disposer of all things may you depart lienee in his peace
We are Reverend Sir &c.
REV. MR. WHEELOCK TO THE CORPORATION OF ALBANY.
W: pful and hon d Sirs
Yours of March 9 th Came Safe to hand twrn days, 'ago, in wdiich I observe and gratefully acknow-ledge the unmerited expressions of your benevolence and respects towards me and your truelygenerous dispositions towards this rising Institution. I am sorry that my unguarded manner ofexpressing myself in a former letter respecting the objection so often made against fixing my schoolin the vicinity of your City (viz the bad morals of the place) w 7 as received in any other light thanwas simply and honestly intended : my design was only to advice you, that such an objection hadbeen frequently and strongly urged ; and to Give you an opportunity to obviate the same’s beingfurther improved to the disadvantage of the design proposed I had not the least intention or disposi-tion to reflect upon your City, or so much as express my own sentiments respecting that matter ;however the earless and ungaurded manner of my expression, naturally lead you to conceive, thatwhich w 7 as very different from that entire friendship w'hich w T olly Governed me in that matter, andwhich w r as so far from my intention that I never had a tlio’t or the least jealousy of my being soUnderstood, till I was informed of it by my Son, and since more fully by M r Smith of New 7 York,How 7 ever I hope that matter is now set right, and that you will Candidly ascribe it to that Crow 7 ’dof affairs, which obliges me relying upon the goodness of those to w 7 hom I w 7 rite, often to dismisseven Letters of importance, without such a review as I should otherwise think expedient.
I shall take the earliest opportunity to transmit your letters, to the Earl of Dartmouth &c, andalso Capn Lansing’s generous proposal at Stoneroby.
It gives me sensible pleasure Gentlemen that your sentiments are the same with mine as to theexpediency and propriety of proceeding, only with the advice and approbation of the Earl of Dart-