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I have not had any late Letters from the Secretary of the Society. I wish that good Bodywould adopt the Salutary advice you have given them; which would enable them to befurther useful.
I hope you will pardon this long Epistle; and, be assured that I am, worthy Sir, with greatsencerity & truth.
Your much obliged & most ob‘ Serv 1
SIR WM JOHNSON TO THE REYD DR. AUCHMUTY.
Johnson hall May 27 th 1770.
Sir, I thank you most kindly for your Letter of the 20 th by our Friends D r Cooper & M r Ingliswhom I very highly Esteem & in whose Society I have spent many agreable hours during whichwe have Conversed much on the affairs of the Church, Their Speedy return prevents me fromSaying much to you by this opportunity. I cannot however avoid agreeing with you in thetruth of your Remarks on the present unhappy state of affairs, which greatly contribute to checkthe growth & prevent the Success of the National Church, I hope the Government will at last dis-cover the Importance of giving it all possible Countenance, & that whenever party shall so farSubside as to enable them to act without the apprehension of giving offence to others its Enemies,that they will afford it the required support.
I most kindly thank the Convention for the favorable sentiments they entertained of myendeavors in the Cause of our Religion , and I assure you & them, that I shall omit no opportunityfor demonstrating the sincerity of my attachnd thereto, by promoting its Interest as far as my littleInterest & abilities shall Enable me, at the same time wishing that we may spedily hear more agreablenews from England & Assuring you that I am always with great Truth Sir &c
D r Auchmuty.
SIR WM. JOHNSON TO THE REVD MR. INGLIS.
Johnson hall Nov r 1770.
Dear Sir. I was lately agreably favored with your Letter of the 25 th ult" accompanied withyour pretty present for your Godson the Indian Boy, which with your Letter to his father wasreceived with Extraordinary marks of Gratitude and Thanks, so that it would be hard to say whichwere best pleased, The Boy with his finery or the parents with that Token of your remembrance& the Letter which they think greatly of, The Father was greatly distressed how to Express histhanks to you but at last wrote the Letter wch I now enclose, and after Lamenting that it was not*n his power to make you a return suitable to his Inclinations he begged that I might send you aLeathern Lap Decorated & which he gave me for that purpose adding that as he had worn it often inthe field, when in Arms against our Enemys, it might still be considered as an emblem of hisattachment.
I sincerely wish that the Indians desires as Expressed at the late Congress joyned to my Strongrecommendations may awaken the attention of Government to affairs of Religion , which under such