Newberry Library - Letters Mashpee, Mass., 1770-1775

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User-Contributed Transcription Mashpee 10 Aug 1775Revd & Hond Sir,Mr Saml Gilbert your Pupil applied to me last fall for Liberty to preach to the Yarmoutth & Portem...ient? Indians which I readily allowed and he hath beheaved in his publick & private character in such a manner as to do honer to your College.The state of our publick affairs have hitherto prevented his receiving any stipend for his services which is 30 ll i.e. pounds word unclear but I hope that in this journey he will meet with Mr. Phillips the Commissioners Treasurer at Norwich and if he has received any money a bill of ��22:20 which will be due the 13th of this instant will be paid to M. Gilbert. I write in the greatest haste and can only add that I am with the greatest regard yr. most humb Servt,Gid. HawleyRev.Dr. Wheelock Presidt. of Dartmouth College.

Open book Letters Mashpee, Mass., 1770-1775

Title Letters Mashpee, Mass., 1770-1775

Creator Hawley, Gideon, 1727-1807

Date 1770-1775

Place Massachusetts, Massachusetts--Mashpee

Language English

Subjects Indians of North America, Longevity, Mashpee Indians, Missionaries

Description Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)
formerly known as Ayer MS 375.

Summary Two letters: Dec. 31, 1770, to Samuel Cooper, pastor of Boston's Brattle Square Church, describing instances of longevity mainly among the Mashpee Indians of his acquaintance (forwarded in 1793 to Dr. Nathl. Freeman, Sandwich); and Aug. 10, 1775, to Eleazar Wheelock, founder and president of Dartmouth College, praising the preaching to the Indians of Wheelock's student, Samuel Gilbert, and hoping that Gilbert might receive payment from Mr. Phillips of the commissioners (probably of Company for Propagation of the Gospel in New England and the Parts Adjacent in America)

Biographical/Historical Note Congregational clergyman and Yale graduate who served as a missionary to the Stockbridge Indians, 1752-1754; among the Iroquois on the New York frontier, 1754-1756; and to the Mashpee Indians, 1758-1807.

Extent 2 items (1 folder) ; 33 cm or smaller

Format Correspondence, Manuscripts

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection

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Call Number Ayer MS 374

BibID 140399

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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