44 Inasmuch 



The representations were followed up by both 

 The Five sides. Five sachems told Lord Cornbury in an 

 interview at Albany, &quot;they admired that we 

 should have a squaw sachem or woman king ; 

 but hoped she would be a good mother arid send 

 them some to teach them religion and establish 

 traffic among them, that they might be able to 

 purchase a coat and not to go to Church in bear 

 skins;&quot; and so they sent the Queen a present, 

 to wit &quot;ten beaver skins to make her fine and 

 one fur muff to keep her warm.&quot; 



The Archbishop of Canterbury placed the need 

 Rev. Thor- before the S. P. G. and eventually the Reverend 

 M*oor! Arriv- Thoroughgood Moore, undertook &quot;with a firm 

 York, coura g e an( j resolution to answer the excellent 

 designs of the Society.&quot; 



At this point our historic, and apparently 

 immortal, friend &quot;Charity begins at home&quot; 

 appeared upon the scene. The clergy of the 

 province represented to the Society that &quot;it is 

 most true the converting heathen is a work laud 

 able, honourable, and glorious, and we doubt not 

 but God will prosper it in the hands of our good 

 brother, Mr. Thoroughgood Moore .... but after 

 all with submission we humbly supplicate that 

 the children first be satisfied, and the lost sheep 

 recovered who have gone astray among heretics 

 . . . . who have denied the faith and are worse 

 than infidels and Indians that never knew it.&quot; 

 Mr. Thoroughgood Moore also made a discovery, 

 and reported &quot;to begin with the Indians is pre 

 posterous; for it is from the behaviour of the 



