disposed to receive
missionaries and school masters in the wilderness, more than could be
supported by the charitable contributions in these American colonies.

Whereupon the said Eleazar Wheelock thought it expedient that
endeavors should be used to raise contributions from well disposed
persons in England, for the carrying on and extending said
undertaking, and for that purpose said Eleazar Wheelock requested the
Rev. Nathaniel Whitaker, now Doctor in Divinity, to go over to England
for that purpose, and sent over with him the Rev. Sampson Occom, an
Indian minister, who had been educated by the said Wheelock. And to
enable the said Whitaker, to the more successful performance of said
work on which he was sent, said Wheelock gave him a full power of
attorney, by which said Whitaker solicited those worthy and generous
contributors to the charity, viz. the Right Hon. William Earl of
Dartmouth, the Hon. Sir Sidney Stafford Smythe, Knight, one of the
Barons of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer, John Thornton, of Clapham,
in the county of Surrey, Esq., Samuel Roffey, of Lincoln's Innfields,
in the county of Middlesex, Esq., Charles Hardey, of the parish of St.
Mary-le-bonne, in said county, Esq., Daniel West, of Christ's Church,
Spitalfields, in the county aforesaid, Esq., Samuel Savage, of the
same place, gentleman; Josiah Robarts, of the parish of St. Edmund the
King, Lombard Street, London, gentleman, and Robert Keen, of the
parish of St. Botolph, Aldgate, London, gentleman; to receive the
several sums of money which should be contributed, and to be trustees
to the contributors to such charity: which they cheerfully agreed to.

Whereupon, the said Whitaker did, by virtue of said power of attorney,
constitute and appoint the said Earl of Dartmouth, Sir Sidney Stafford
Smythe, John Thornton, Samuel Roffey, Charles Hardey, and Daniel West,
Esquires, and Samuel Savage, Josiah Robarts, and Robert Keen,
gentlemen, to be trustees of the money which had then been
contributed, and which should by his means be contributed for said
purpose; which trust they have accepted, as by their engrossed
declaration of the same under their hands and seals, well executed
fully appears, and the same hath also been ratified by a deed of
trust, well executed by said Wheelock.

And the said Wheelock further represents, that he has, by a power of
attorney, for many weighty reasons, given full power to the said
trustees, to fix upon and determine