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RARE MANUSCRIPT Sent the Archbishop of Canterbury by Mohawk Indians. IN LIBRARY OF CONGRESS; _ Wanted Missionaries Sent to Their j wmm ? ? A iriDes in mu. SIGNERS TAKEN TO ENGLAND Were Received as Princes of Highest Rank by the Queen?Wanted Canada Subjugated. WILLIAM K. ri'RTIS. Written for Tho f?'tir spU tbr Cbl'"ago npcordHerald. When Dr. Davidson, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was in ibis country in September, Iff*. to attend the genera! conference of the Kplscopal Church at Boston, he spent a few days in Washington, where he received distinguished attention. President Roosevelt reminded liirn that they had met in Kgypt twenty years befori. and as other public men had been fortunate enough to have known him in London, his grave found himself among friends. Late one Saturday afternoon Gen. Gillespie of the army escorted the archbishop to the Library of Congress, in which the latter was especially interested, because he is a trustee of the Royal Library in London. He made many inquiries concerning the details of management, the eara-catalogue system and the apparatus for conveying books from the stacks to the reading room. He also studied the means of preserving books and the construction of the cases for the protection of manuscripts, which lie considered superior to any he had ever seen. Mohawks Ask for Missionaries. While Mr. Bernard R. Green was show ing him the manuscript room, Oen. tililespie left the group and walked over to one of the west windows to watch the sunset. While there his eyes fell upon a manuscript bearing ^pictograph signatures of Indians, with which he is familiar from long experience on the frontier. and, turning to examine them a little closer, he discovered that they were tne autographs of four Mohawk sachems attached to a letter addressed to the Archbishop of Canterbury. The coincidence was so surprising that Gen. Gillespie filled the rest of the p^ty and pointed out to them the Indian letter The archbishop was, naturally, astonished to see his title at the top of a manuscript in that place, but the room was too dark to read the text, and only a few minutes remained before an important engagement. This was Saturday. Early Monday morning Gen. Gillespie sent his secretary to the library to make a copy of the letter. He afterward obtained a photograph and sent it to the bishop. The manuscript turned out to be a letter from the four Mohawk chiefs?Hendrick, John. Brandt and Nicholas?to the Archbishop of Canterbury, asking that missionaries be sent to their tribe. It was written from Boston, July 21, 1710, immediately after the return of those chiefs from a visit to England. The manuscript was a part of a collection made by Peter Force, a famous Washington Journalist, which was purchased by the government for $100,000 half a century ago and deposited with the Library of Congress. But how Mr. Force obtained it will probably never be known. TU ~ Alnn ^ 9 T I i ii" ?n iiuisiiuji acrtii uru iuc meg ui axiiiiheth Palace and found no traces of such a communication, nor has any other clue been discovered. Mr. D. V. R. Johnston of the State Library, Albany, who is himself a descendant of the great patroon. Van Rensselaer. made an investigation and wrote > Gen. Gillespie as follows: "Three of the four sachems were Christians?to what extent I leave you to guess; and while in London they petitioned the queen for missionaries to be sent to the Mohawks. An account of this is given by David Humphreys in his 'History of the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,' published in London, 1730. The queen, through her minister, sent the matter to the Archbishop of Canterbury. He. having the gout, called a council at Lambeth, and thus turned the whole affair over to that society. The colonial history of the state of New York refers to another petition which Chief Hendriek gave to the governor of that state for transmission to the archbishop. Maybe this is the one which you have in Washington city, but I doubt it. No copy is in our own state archives. So you see there were two and very likely three petitions of similar tenor. Gospel Society Sent Minister. ""I find, too, in 'An Abstract of the Proceedings of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, from February 15. 1711, to February, 1712,' that the society sent an able minister in answer to the expectations of the Indian sachems, and in the 'Historical No tices of the Missions of the Church of England in North America,' by Ernest Hawkins, you will find an account of the futile efforts of the able minister, who was the Rev. William Andrews. "In a letter dated May 7. 1711, the Gov-, ernor of New York reminded the society thai 'The Indian nations were solicitous for the missionaries,' and Rev. White Kennell, D.D., in a sermon preached before the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, etc.. In London, 1712, said: His grace the President wrote a proper answer to a letter with the names and marks of the Indian chiefs or princes, which, upon their first 'arrival in the continent of America, they had dated from Boston, In New England, July 21, 1710.' Text of the Mohawks' Letter. The original of that letter in the Congressional Library reads as follows: "May it please your Grace: "We being (God be thanked) safely arrive upon our native continent. Cannot forget your Grace, the Society's tavor and kindness to us when in Brittain, and your kind promises of providing us with some Missionaries, to be settled at our fort, with a Chappell and house for them, which may your grace and the Society not to be forgettfull of. We pray jeanadngar 1 Wr are your Graces dm Celt Niebolann | end ye Itlsbt Honormay eend tbi? letter ! able \e noctety's moat to your grace. I bumble servants. Boston. July 21, 1710. f tlenrik Sign of Tryenrahngaron and tbe Fox. Ceueiitonoro. John. Brant. Sign of I>agragonguarught8. tbe Bear. Sign of Etm.oume. Nicholas. tbe Turtle. Sent Indians to England. Schuyler's "Colonial New Yorksf" savs: "After the war between i.-,,^ ? >^>>QIUI1U and France the Indians were so disturbed and doubtful in their allegiance. It was decided to imitate the French, who. on several occasions, had sent prominent Indian chiefs to France to become acquainted with her glor> and power, they conceived it to be prudent and wise to take over a delegation of Indian sachems in order to show them something of the strength and wealth of England. As the Mohawks were the most attached to English interests and the most reliance could be placed upon them rive of their sachems were selected, three of whom were nominally Christians and had some knowledge of the English language. They were provided with an interpreter. Capt. Abraham Schuyler, and arrangements were made for their comfort on iheir voyage. One. however, sickened and died before reaching England. "Schuyler and his party sailed for Eng- ! land in December 1710, and were absent seven months-. "The arrival of the Indian chiefs in i Eondon caused an unusual sensation. The Lans Inter A Lace cu tha The special f on sale tomorrow importers which proportionately 1 If you stand which are possifa Extrao Best Imported Wool-andstripe Tapestry?extra heavy, best bargains of the sale. Usu price, $6.00. Our price, yard.. i 63-inch Satin Damask, in 1 Usual price, $20.00. Our pric yard Cypress Damask, 54 inches tiful effects. 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Our 7 i price newspapers o"f the day contain full w descriptions of their persons, their Indian gi names, their titles, their dress, their en- pt tertainments. their progress through Lon- dc don and their reception by the queen, ej Thev were entertained at the public ex- h< pense and lodged in handsomely furnish- m ed apartments in the house of an up- d< hol?terer named Arne, in King street, ft Covent Garden. One was termed "Em- to peror of the Mohawks,' and the others F: 'kings.' They were dressed in rich ap- ef parel; they were driven about the city gf and adjacent country in coaches with ar livery; they visited the dockyards and js arsenals, were taken aboard the men-of- p, war and heard the roar of their artillery. Nobles and statesmen entertained them sj, at their tables. a, Queen Received Them as Princes. j* "Their first audience with the queen was with all the formality and courtesy ci conceded to princes of the highest rank, in They were conducted to St. James' in coaches by Sir Charles Cotterel, and introduced to her majesty by the Duke of Shrewsbury. Their speech on this occasion was as follows: "Great queen, we have undertaken a q long voyage, which none of our predecessors could be prevailed upon to undertake to see our great queen, and relate to her those things which we thought Absolutely necesswry for the good of her, 01 and us, her allies, on the other side of the D water. E "'We doubt not but that our great T| queen has been acquainted with our long and tedious war, in conjunction with her children, against her enemies, the m French; and that we have been as a di strong wall for their security; even to re the loss of our best men. We were mightily rejoiced when we heard our y great queen had resolved to send an ^ army to reduce Canada, and Immediate- in Iv. in token of friendship, we hung up u, , orvlr lin thp V* t anri me Heme duu IW?? up V?V ....V. | | with one consent assisted Col. Nicholson in making preparations on this side the lake, but at length we were told that "W our great queen, by some important af- se fairs was prevented in his design at "i present, which made us sorrowful, lest the French, who had hitherto dreaded er us. should now think us unable to muke Si war against them. The reduction of bi Canada is of great 'weight to our free U hunting, so that if our great queen C. should not be mindful of us we must, CI with our families, forsake our country M and seek other habitations or stand be neuter, either of which will be much re against our inclinations. ' 'In token of the sincerity of these na- M tions we do in their names present our pi great queen with these belts of warn- VI punt, and in hopes of our great queen's L< favor leave it to her most gracious con- O' sideration.' at Expressed Their Appreciation. "Alter two or three weeks more in England the party prepared to leave ' for home. Before their departure they addressed a formal letter to the queen cl and another to the privy council, signed ?* with the totems of their tribes, or clans. '.t! That to the queen is as follows: ^ " 'Great (Juecn?The Indian sachems, Ti t burgh -Ocean Bui i v trem rtains, p t will cr< purchases we've i r. These include we've secured at ow. in need of any < >le to make. rdinary V? Silk Cross- Railroad One of the Rose du Bi a! $1.10 ya7daLp.r!!!'. , . French 1 .11 colorings. an(1 red. 5Q e' $7.48 Pricc> $4.00. Gobelin . . . stering furni wiue; ueau- $ ( 0 $1.68 yard -?f. :.. ? All-wool wide?choice blue, gold and o. $4-5?- Our p 267 yard: Drapery. 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Nicholson), so well known id beloved among us. And our desire A I A * -A' 1 a ~ iiihi our orumtr quiaor may nummy esent this as our minds accordingly.' " The letter was signed with a crude cetch of a fox, the mark of Hendrlck id John; with a pig, the mark of randt, and with a turtle, the mark of tawa Coume. In response to thl? appeal the Soety for ^he Propogation of the Gospel Foreign Parts sent the Rev. William ndrews to America, and thus began le work of Christianizing the Indians New York. GuVES ANNUAL SMOKER. eorgetown Law School, Class of '10, Entertains Faculty. The second annual smoker of the class ' 1910, Georgetown University 8chool of aw. was held last night at Rauscher's. dward Beach served as toastmaster. he guests were members of the faculty. Following brief addresses by several embers of the faculty. Morton II. Burck, president of the class, told of its cord, noting that it is the largest second >ar class ever enrolled at Georgetown aw. The class, he said, takes deep terest in debating and athletics, but he ged that such matters should not bo lowed to interfere with regular studies. While a collation was being served 'ilmarth's Orchestra rendered popular lections. Mr. Frank Cuddy sanij; Somebody I Know You Know, Too." Among the members of the faculty pres it were Chief Justice Olahaugh of the iprenie Court of the District of Columa, the dean; Justice Ashley Gould, nited States Attorney D. W. Baker, Mr. R. Wilson. Mr. J. S. Easby-Smlth. Mr. harles E. Roach. Mr. Jesse C. Adkins, r. Charles A. Douglas. Mr. M. J. Col:rt and Mr. Richard J. Watkins, sectary-treasurer. The officers of the class are: President, orton H. Burdick, Adams. Mass.: vice esident. George C. Bowie. Marlboro, d.; secretary, Benjamin J. Maloney, ciwell, Mass.; , treasurer, Deamon J. Neil, Glendive. Mont., and sergeant-atnis, Leo Kelly, Rockville, Conn. Typos to Join Board of Trade. 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Changes in District Auditor's Office. \ al of Maurice F. Dee, a long- The Commissioners yesterday accepted i of the District, will be held resignation of H. J. Simmons, who for iJ| lock tomorrow morning from three years has been a clerk in the audi17 Q street, with requiem mass tor's office at a salary of $1,000 a year. i?-6 Church at ,0 oYloch. The 5 vill be in Mount Oli\et. Mr. promoted to the position made vacant Thursday. He was fifty-two by Mr. Simmons' resignation, and e and a son of the late David Charles E. Tuchton appointed to succeed Mr. "SVrenn. t