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Letter to Lord Hillsborough, & desired to be affectionately remembered to you. He was on thepoint of embarking when Sir John & Col. Johnson came to Town, & I have been so constantlyemployed in assisting to prepare addresses to go by him from the Clergy & the College , & inmoving to the College , that I have been deprived much more of the Pleasure of their Companythan I would Chuse. Indeed their Friends were so glad to see them, after so long an Absence, thatthey were almost continually out, & I could only spend a Couple of Evenings with them. Thereis an affair relative to Kirtland, the Indian Missionary, which I have mentioned to Col. Johnson tobe communicated to you, not thinking it safe to commit it to writing. You are the only Person thatcan accomplish it, and it requires much Delicacy.
Your approbation of the Memorial gives me much Pleasure. But in Reality if it has any Merit,It should be placed to your own Account; as I only arranged the Materials with which you suppliedme ; & this I mentioned both to M r Tryon & the Society.
By this Time I hope you are returned safe from your Excursions into the Indian Country. Thatevery Felicity may attend you—& that you may be long continued a Blessing & an ornament tothis Country, is the sincere Wish & Prayer of,
Worthy Sir, Your most affectionate
much obliged & very humble Serv 1
REVD WM. ANDREWS TO SIR WM. JOHNSON.
Sir, 1 lately took the Liberty of acquainting You, that I had opened a Grammar School in thisTown, and since that, I have determined on forming it into an Academy , and propose givingInstructions in Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Geography and History to those who may be designedto fill the Stations of active Life, exclusive of those who may be taught the Learned Languages —Book-keeping, and Merchants accompts to fit them for Business, or the Mechanic Arts.—At presentI have Thirteen Scholars, and as the Prices are moderate for teaching, and receiving Boarders, Ihave a good Prospect of getting more daily.
I hope, Sir, it may merit your Countenance and Encouragement, as it shall be conducted withthe greatest Care and Attention, and that you will be good enough to patronize this Plan, whichmay prove very useful to this Place, and may enable me to continue in this Mission.
When I left London I positively saw my Salary settled in the venerable Society ’s Books at £50Sterling a year, and I then express’d my surprize that it exceeded my Expectations by £10, as Iknew you had been pleased to have had even that annexed to what it formerly was.—But by a Letterfrom Doctor Burton, & from the Abstracts for this Year, I learn itreally is no more than £40, whichtogether with what my Congregation give, udiich is £40 Currency, is quite insufficient to supportme.—Indeed the people subscribe as largely & willingly as they possibly can. In short, they contri-bute all in their Power to make me live easy, and I do every Thing I can to please them, bydoing my Duty amongst them.
What I only wish for, is, that the venerable Society wou’d please to add something to MyIncome, either on Account of the School , or because of the Poverty of the Mission.—For, Ibelieve I may safely pronounce it to be one of the poorest Missions on the Continent. —Still I wou’dnot wish to appear discontented, for I am far from being so—I only desire to have my Income sosettled, in a moderate Way, That I can make it barely satisfy my few Wants.