Memorial of Martin Kellogg
To the Honorable General Assembly convened at Hartford in the Colony of Connecticut on May 9th in the year of our Lord 1751
The memorial of Martin Kellogg humbly showeth that your memorialist hath been ever since the 27th day of October last wholly devoted to the instruction of the Mohawks who are come to him at Stockbridge and hath accepted two thirds of his support from the Province of the Massachusetts at the rate of £50 Sterling per year and that no provision is made for the other third part, but he undertook relying on the goodness of the Colony of Connecticut to supply the same.
That the £250 granted by the General Assembly in October last he hath received by order of the committee who had the care of the same, considerable part of which sum your memorialist had advanced before he received the said money, and the remainder since, with considerably more, an account whereof is ready to be laid before this honorable Assembly, which was done according to the direction of the committee and according to the best discretion of your memorialist,
That the number of Indians of the Mohawks now with him to be instructed, together with their parents who have the care of them, is between fifty and sixty, and he daily expects more, there being a good report of their kind reception carried back to their own country,
That the Province last year granted £100 lawful money in order to receive what of the Mohawks should come, and blankets for twenty, and that the last winter they have granted £125 lawful money and a township four miles square in a good situation, in which their whole Assembly concurred,
That there are now at the carrying place (from Hudson’s River to Wood Creek) a number of Caughnawangers, to whom he hath sent an invitation to come in, in all which he hath acted the more freely having the countenance of the Assembly of the Province and this colony, and shall proceed to invite and instruct them that come as far as he shall have encouragement and supplies in time to come, and further humbly proposes that it is necessary to have a good scholar there to learn the Mohawk tongue, and that one Indian and one Mohawk be educated at college, which with an English scholar, will in time to come be under peculiar advantages to propagate knowledge and refute error among these dark nations, and further also desires to know the pleasure of this Assembly whether it will be agreeable to have Hendrick come with him to Hartford and one more chief with him during the siting of this Assembly, having thus laid the case before this honorable Assembly, your memorialist waits the result to hear what in your great wisdom shall be thought proper, and in the meantime, as in duty shall ever pray,
Martin Kellogg
Hartford, May 13th 1751
Legislative Action: In the Lower House, Colonel Joseph Pitkin, Captain Stephen Lee, and Mr. Robert Treat are appointed a committee to join such Gentlemen, the honorable Upper House, the matters related to in the memorial of Captain Martin Kellogg shall appoint, to consider and draw up what may be proper to be done therein and the same lay before this Assembly, and also to examine the accounts sent in to this Assembly by the said Captain Martin Kellogg. Test, John Fowler, Clerk
In the Upper House, Ebenezer Silliman and John Bulkeley, Esqs., are appointed a committee to join with the committee of the Lower House to consider and draw up etc. in the affair abovementioned. Test, George Wyllys, Secretary
In the Upper House, Benjamin Hall, Esq., is appointed (in the room of John Bulkeley, Esq., (who is absent etc.) with Ebenezer Silliman, Esq., a committee to join with the committee of the Lower House to consider, draw up etc. in the affair abovementioned. Test, George Wyllys, Secretary
Memorial / Martin Kellogg / May 1751 / passed Lower House / passed
Upper House 14 am / Report / passed Lower House / Bill / passed Upper
House 28 am / passed Lower House / Entered
Cataloguing: 67a, 69, 67b