voyage. When he told the Commiffioners of it, who had employed him feven years before as school-mafter to the Mohrags, near New London, I faid to him at the board, that the first thought occurring to me upon his motion was, that it might affect the civil liberties of the colony of Connecticut. I hinted this to the Rev. Mr. Adams, paftor of the church in New London, and he fent my hint to the government there; which immediately alarmed them, brought me their thanks, and their application to the Commiffioners, with papers and deeds; whereby it plainly appeared to us, that under the pretence of the government injuring the Indians in their lands, Mr. Mafon was invading them for himself, by an old deed given in times of distress, by their ancestor Uncas, to Mr. Mafon's grandfather, to secure them at that threatening juncture; which obligation the Indians thought, from their father's account to them, had at the time been cancelled and burnt. However, the government have no doubt inftructed their agent on this point, and as Mr. Mason had only afked of me a letter to Mr Holden, I let him know I fhould write in his disfavour, and fo I did; and Mr. Holden in his laft told me he had heard nothing of him. The Commiffioners here, I fuppofe, will not employ him again if he returns; and I fee nothing but diftraction and

confufion

confufion to himfelf and family, in his prefent voyage; and I could not with him God-fpeed..

You are pleased to say, Sir, "Alas! that the Hollis's are all dead," and then name two yet alive, with your prayers "that the good spirit of their ancestors might reft upon them." I am glad I can now inform you that your prayer is anfwered in Mr. Ifaac Hollis, on whom I have drawn, in the last ships, by his order, for fixty pounds fterling, for the inftruction, clothing, and lodging of twelve Indian boys at Honftatonock, and from year to year he promises the continuance of that fupport; for which God lengthen out his life, heart, and ability: may it be his blessed will. The merchants here have his name and bills now, fo that it can no longer be a fecret. Five or fix years ago I refused, to his displeasure, a settlement of twenty pounds fterling per annum for a fourth miffionary to the Eaft; but I told him I must be equally for him, if he held me wife and faithful, and pointed him to other fervices which he regarded not; but now I think all his pious intention answered under Mr. Sargent, and he has proceeded as you now hear.

I had your Redeemer and Sanctifier before, and have given what you now fent to my colleague Mr. Cooper; but there are two things you have printed I have not, but have read, and made an abstract

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abstract of one because I owned it not, which is the Human Will.

My respects to Mr. Raffey. Entreat Dr. Guise, who has not wrote to me, to accept of what I here write as to himself.

Our Governour has lately buried the wife of his youth with great magnificence; her funeral fermon will be out this week, by Mr. Prince, and no doubt will come to you: he has behaved on the occafion, in privacy and openly, with a most christian temper, and been openly infulted for it by fome hidden, but I hope impotent malice. He has always immediately been acquainted with all you fend to him for others, and takes great pleasure in any office from Dr. Guise: his nephew here is married, tell him, and fet up his trade in Bofton, and I hope does well, and two days ago I called to fee if he had any letter from his uncle. I am glad to hear that the Compaffionate Addrefs to the Chriftian World is Mr. J. Reynold's, an admirable man, and foon ripe for heaven; we reprinted it here, and knew not whence it was.

The glafs of your picture is not broken, and just now Mr. Appleton came in and has taken it with him to Cambridge; he thanks you for the respectful mention you make of his fermon. We have a new church building in Boston, many of my hearers go off to it: one Mr. Hooper from Edinburgh, an admirable preacher, is like to be

fettled

fettled there, but he has brought no certificates; he came over to be a tutor to a young gentleman.

This comes by Mr. J. Roylfton, eldest fon of Dr. Roylfton, who tells me he has heretofore wait

ed on you; I pray God to profper and bless him.

God has pleafed to put me again into mourn

ing; my dear grandfon, the only branch of my beloved Fural, is in the grave with his mother. A dark and pleasant tomb, where my midnight thoughts too often are. It has helped to bring me downward; God give me the confolation to fee them in heaven. Pray for my only furviving daughter; she has a poetical turn too, I wish only it were as magnetically turned on heaven, as her fifter's was, I am in hopes of it, for she is truly virtuous. Forgive a father to a friend if on a sudden he doze a little. Your loving brother,

From Dr. DODDRIDGE to Dr. WATTS.

LETTER I.

REV. SIR,

Harborough, Nov. 8, 1729.

THE great regard I have for your judgment,

and my confidence in your generous and most obliging friendship, engages me to beg the favour of your advice in a very important affair with which I am exceedingly embarraffed.

I have now before me an unanimous and most preffing invitation to Northampton, accompanied with all the circumftances of seriousness, zeal, and affection, which is poffible for a plain honest people to exprefs. You know, Sir, that it is a very large congregation, and though their fentiments be much narrower than I could wifh, which alarms fome of my wifest friends in these parts, yet I am ready to hope I might have a comfortable fettlement amongst them, and a fair prospect of confiderable usefulness, with the bleffing of God, attending my labours. They are, indeed, a people of a very low taste, as any I ever met with, which is a circumftance I own difagreeable to me, but which, if it were the only objection, might well give way to the folemn arguments on the contrary fide.

But the greatest difficulty of all is, that which relates to my fcheme for academical education.