Rhode Island Historical Society (hereafter RIHS), transcribed by George Claghorn.
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(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992), 99–100, regarding Ephraim Williams' instructions to Elisha Williams in London that the land, supposedly a donation to the mission but actually to be a trade, not be legally registered there, since it was not to be recorded in Massachusetts. ''In other words,'' writes Frazier, ''the deed was illegal,'' p. 100.
7. Edwards to Isaac Hollis, July 17, 1752, postscript, summer 1752, Works, 16: 506. 8. Edwards to Jasper Mauduit, March 10, 1752, Works, 16: 456. 9. Edwards' most detailed critiques of Kellogg are in his letters to Speaker Thomas Hubbard, March 30, 1752, Works, 16: 461–68, and March 19, 1753, pp. 572–74.
10. Joseph Dwight and John Ashley, Report to General Court, November 22, 1752, from typescript from George Claghorn, from Massachusetts Archives (hereafter MA), 32: 299–309. Edwards claimed, to Sir William Pepperrell, January 30, 1753, Works, 16: 559–60, that he had called the meeting only to warn the Indians of the moral dangers of dispersing for the harvest and that Woodbridge had initiated the subversion of Kellogg's school. Dwight defended Kellogg as doing as well as could be expected (though alluding to some shortcomings) and criticized Hawley for not living at the boarding school. He also reported that the Mohawks left not only because of the school crisis, but also because of the newly profitable business harvesting ginseng. Edwards says the same to William McCulloch, November 24, 1752, Works, 16: 543.
Edwards, Dwight reported, had called the April meeting, but the minister had only advised the Stockbridge men not to go into the Dutch country during the wheat harvest because of the temptations, especially of drinking. He then turned to others to address the school question.
11. Edwards to Oliver, May 1752, Works, 16: 471–73. Edwards said that Dwight wanted to place his own son as head of the boarding school. Dwight had alleged that Edwards wanted to settle one of his daughters as head of the girls school, Edwards to Speaker Thomas Hubbard, March 30, 1752, Works, 16: 470n.
12. Edwards to Oliver, May 1752, Works, 16: 474–75. Edwards to Oliver, August 27, 1752, Works, 16: 526, alleged that Dwight planned to divert the king's bounty of £500 sterling through his own hands ''to be dealt to the Indians out of his shop'' for a ''very great'' profit.
13. Edwards to Colonel Timothy Dwight, June 30, 1752, Works, 16: 485. Edwards asked Dwight to help him sell some land at Winchester. Cf. Wyllis Wright, Colonel Ephraim Williams (Pittsfield, Mass.: Berkshire County Historical Society, 1970), 64.
14. Edwards to Oliver, August 27, 1752, Works, 16: 521. 15. E.g., ibid. Edwards was aware of Elisha's appointment as early as February 1752, see Works, 16: 423.
16. This is the account of Elisha Williams to Jonathan Edwards, August 19, 1752, Rhode Island Historical Society (hereafter RIHS), transcribed by George Claghorn. Williams a≈rmed that his wife could verify that this was close to an exact account.
17. Edwards to Sir William Pepperrell, January 30, 1753, Works, 16: 556, recounted his conversation with Abigail, which he thought was ''altogether friendly.'' His fullest summary of his often expressed objections to Abigail's position is in Edwards to Oliver, April 13, 1753, Works, 16: 587–92.
18. Edwards to the Reverend Isaac Hollis, July 17, 1752, Works, 16: 493–509. 19. Edwards to Elisha Williams, August 15, 1752, and August 18, 1752, Works, 16: 512–19. Williams to Edwards, August 19, 1752, RIHS.