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PAPERS RELATING TO THE SIX NATIONS.

MR. J. W. BROWN TO SIR WM. JOHNSON .

Schonactady Oct 19 th 176S.

Hon d Sir I Received your Interesting Letter, which I immediately Communicated the contentswhich regards the Church to the Vestry which made us all very happy, but as we want words toExpress our gratefull Sentiments to you as we ought we must be silent we shall instantly sett aboutfinishing the Church, tho I fear it will be too late in the season to Plaister the walls. Accordingto order I have sent 1 Harrell of Rusk Branded on the Head E B which I hope is come safe to handand am with the most gratefull Respect

Hon d Sir Your most Obliged Hum bl Servant

To Sir William Johnston Barne 1 . j w Brown . 1

MEMORIAL OF REVD. MR. WHEELOCK.

To Their Excellencies Sir William Johnson Baronet Superintendent of Indian Affairs inNorth America, Sir Henry Moore Esquire Governor of the Province of New York,Benjamin Franklin Esquire Governor of the Province of New Jersey and JohnPenn Esquire Deputy Governor of Pennsylvania , now convened at Fort Stanwix.

The Memorial of Eleazer Wheelock of Lebanon in the Colony of Connecticut , Founder andDirector of the Indian Charity School in said Colony, humbly slieweth.

That said School was founded with a single view to promote the knowledge of the only true God ,and our common Salvation especially among the Savages of this Land ; thereby to deliver them fromtheir present miseries, make them good Members of Society, loyal Subjects to our rightful Sovereign,and especially cordial subjects to the King of Zion, and the Plan has since been well approved,and the School generously endowed by the Liberalities of his present Majesty King George the third,and by many Noblemen and Gentlemen in Europe , as well as by many charitably disposed Peoplein America.—and much Labour and cost have been already expended to fit and qualify a number both English and Indians for Missionaries and School-Masters among their several Tribes who arenow or will soon be ready to enter upon their respective services, if suitable doors should

1 We learn from Mr. L. IT. Willard of Union College, that John W. Brown was horn in the year 1727; he came to thiscountry from London and settled in Schenectady in 1748. He married a Miss Wemple, and left one son and twodaughters. After having passed evenly through the troubles of the revolution, in which he manifested very little interest, andarriving at an advanced age, he laid down to rest in 1814. The following is a copy of the inscription on a slab in St. George’sChurch, Schenectady:—

Jilt Memory of JOHN W. BROWNWho departed this life,

June 30 th 1814; aged 87 years.

A native of GREAT BRITAIN Came to Schenectady 1748;

Where he remained untill his death;

The founder and steady friend of thisI CHURCH. _