rly boarded and lodged in the Town; where
abundance of them used to die, either thro' Sickness, change of
Provision, and way of Life; or as some will have it, often for want of
proper Necessaries and due Care taken with them. Those of them that have
escaped well, and been taught to read and write, have for the most Part
returned to their Home, some with and some without Baptism, where they
follow their own savage Customs and heathenish Rites.

A few of them have lived as Servants among the _English_, or loitered
and idled away their Time in Laziness and Mischief.

But 'tis great Pity that more Care is not taken about them, after they
are dismissed from School.

They have admirable Capacities when their Humours and Tempers are
perfectly understood; and if well taught, they might advance themselves
and do great Good in the Service of Religion; whereas now they are
rather taught to become worse than better by falling into the worst
Practices of vile nominal Christians, which they add to their own
_Indian_ Manners and Notions.

To prevent this therefore, let there be chosen continually four _Indian_
Servitors out of the _Indian_ School, as the other four out of the
_Grammar_ School.

Let these be maintained in the _Indian_ House, and wait upon the four
lower Tables: Let them be instructed as the other Servitors, or as their
Genius most aptly may require, but particularly in Religion; and when
they are found qualified let them be sent to _England_, or placed out to
Captains of Ships or Trades, as the Mathematical Boys in
_Christ-Hospital_, for a few Years; then let them return and be allowed
a small Exhibition, and encouraged in their separate Callings and
Occupations; and let them settle some among the _English_, and others
return to their own Nations.

Undoubtedly many of them would become excellent Artists and Proficients
in Trade; and thus when Reason and Experience has convinced them of the
Preference of our Religion and Manners, certainly they may not only save
their own Souls; but also be extreamly instrumental in the Conversion of
their barbarous Friends and Relations.

In proceeding thus, any that seem capable or inclinable to study
Divinity, should by all Means be encouraged and forwarded in it, and
sent over for a small Time to one of our Universities with an Allowance
of _a Fellow_; after which, if such were admitted into Orders, and then
sent out Missionaries among their own Country-Folks, what great Goo