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Country, at least great Part of it, would have been deluged in Blood & Slaughter; & such Scenesof Horror & Distress would have ensued, as would shock the Ear of the most obdurate Wretch.—General Braddock being defeated at Monongahela, and the army under his Command almost cut toPieces. One third killed, one third Wounded, and one third run away which, as Gen 1 Burtonwho was in the action afterwards assured me, was as near the Truth of the matter as he couldrelate. Gen 1 Shirley at that Time was at Oswego. The City of Albany would have instantlyfallen a sacriiize to that very enterprizing General the Baron who was a very great Favourite of thevery celebrated Marshal Saxe, and by him strongly recommended to the French king, as one of thebest Officers of his Rank, in all his most Christian Majestys Forces. He at the Time of MarshalSaxes Death was a Col 0 of a Reg 4 of Infantry and Lieu 4 Col° of Saxes Reg 4 of Horse. TheBaron very justly observed that had he won the Day, in that action he would have easily cut off allSupplys from Gen 1 Shirley and who of Course must of Necessity submitted to any Terms the Baronwould have please’d to impose. The 6 th Nations, had Sir W m been defeated undoubtedly wouldhave joyned the Baron—And the City of New York would have been the Barons Head Quarters—But thanks be to God all indulgent Heaven, did not think proper to devote this Country to Ruin.

The Services that S r W m Johnson has done in this Country are infinitely more fit for a Vol° thanthat of a Letter but I cant help thinking that his most valuable and very important Life is stillreserved by Almighty God for the most noble of Purposes—I acquainted Sir W m that I proposedlaying the Matter before you, and of my desiring you to communicate the affair to Doc Aucbmuty,M r Inglis, & M r Ogilviee and if the good Rector and the rest of the very respectable Clergy of yourCity should approve of the thing and would allow of Contributions being given in their Churcheson a Christmas Day or any other Time that would be tho’t most Proper, which from their Examplemight and I verily believe would become general throughout the Colonies; by which means a largFund might be established for the Purpose of founding a Seminary amongst the 6..Nations, whichafter a regular and well digested Plan might be laid before the Public by S>' William who you aresensible is extreamly capable of doing it; who assured me at Amaganseth Long Island fromwhence I am just returned after having had the great Pleasure & satisfaction of spending near aWeek with Sir W m and his Nephew M r Dease a regular bred Physician who besides the Advantagesof a very genteel & learned Education in Ireland has studied under the most able Professors inFrance for 5 years there are two other G en in S r Williams Retenue viz M r Daily a very genteel wellbred Person, and M r Adams who has been with S r W m ever since his first coming to America . Thegood Baronite observed that if your answer to my Letter which (shall communicate to him, agreeableto his desire) should it succeed agreeable to nay Wishes (and should meet with that favourableReception that I flatter my self it will,) He would push the affair with Gov r Tryon, Gov r Franklin,& Gov r Penn to his utmost all three of the Gov rS I am well assured would take very particularPleasure in obliging S 1 W m out of a personal Regard to him and S r William might with the utmostPropriety ask it as those very Indians have been by his Influence over them the means not onlyof saving this Country but of Conquering Canada. I observed farther to Sir W m that it would bethe means of expediting the sending of a Bishop into America who assured me nothing could|afford] him greater Pleasure; and that he would recommend it in the strongest Manner to theMinistry at Home, and farther very justly observed that there were several Gen n in orders now atNew York that were fit to personate the Character of a Bishop and would he made no Doubt doHonor to the exalted Station, and who knows but that the Gentleman is now in your City (andthat I may have the Honor of being his Chaplain) who may preside in some Measure over the pro-posed Seminary—much, very much therefore depends upon the Resolution the good Gentlemenof the Clergy in your City shall make upon this occasion; and suffer me to say it’s an affair of as