know.

"M. L. has subscribed:

20 thousand boards.
20 tons hay, three years, is 60 tons.
10 bushels wheat, three years, is 30 bushels.
10 bushels rye, three years, is 30 bushels.
10 bushels Indian, three years, is 30 bushels.
10 days labor, three years, is 30 days.

"Also use of house and barn and land pasturing round it, twenty acres
cleared; also Esq. Brainerd, one right of land, etc., in Rumney; also
sent a man with a subscription, to be followed, we hope, in proportion
and more than proportion to the above. Expect some hundred bushels
grain yearly for three years, also land and labor; and if the above is
not enough subscribed by Moses Little, Dr. Wheelock shall have liberty
to improve as much of his land as he pleases."

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"Albany, May 9, 1767.

"Reverend Sir: I have had the pleasure to see your letter, directed to
the mayor of this city and others. The subject of it was a very
agreeable one. To encourage literature indicates a great mind; to
civilize savages, with a view to their eternal happiness, evinces a
goodness of heart and a charitable disposition truly commendable;
whoever attempts it has a right to claim the assistance of every
worthy member of society. I shall be happy if I can be any ways
instrumental in promoting the success of your humane plan; I am
informed that Mr. Mayor and the other gentlemen of the corporation
have expressed an equal desire, and I make no doubt but their offers
will be such as a corporation ought to make who are impressed with a
sense of its general utility. I could say much of the advantages that
would accrue from fixing the School near this city, but as you have
doubtless considered this affair with attention, you will have
anticipated all I could say on the subject. I shall only remark that I
have observed with much satisfaction that the morals of my
fellow-citizens are much less vitiated than those of other cities that
have an immediate foreign trade, and consequently import the vices of
other climes; to this, give me leave to add, that a becoming economy
is what characterizes our people, and may, by way of example, have a
very good effect on the Indian children, and such others as might be
allowed to take their education in the proposed seminary.

"Should you, however, reverend sir, after receiving the proposals of
the corporation, think them inadequate to the advantages the city
would receive, or