and especially in Edwards to Pepperrell, November 28, 1751, Works, 16: 404, 407–13. Ed-
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1999), 105–10. On Edwards' view of the Indians, see Gerald McDermott, ''Jonathan Edwards and American Indians: The Devil Sucks Their Blood,'' New England Quarterly 72, no. 4 (December 1999): 539–57. 24. Edwards to Hubbard, August 31, 1751, Works, 16: 394–405. 25. Edwards to Joseph Paice, February 24, 1752, Works, 16: 434–47. 26. Edwards to Sir William Pepperrell, November 28, 1751, Works, 16: 413. 27. These educational proposals are found in Edwards to Hubbard, August 31, 1751, and especially in Edwards to Pepperrell, November 28, 1751, Works, 16: 404, 407–13. Edwards to Jonathan Edwards Jr., June 2, 1755, Works, 16: 666–67, mentions the death of an Indian boy ''who used to live at our house.'' Cf. Edwards to Thomas Prince, May 10, 1754, Works, 16: 638, that a Mohawk boy was living at their house and five others were at the home of Joseph Woodbridge.
28. Edwards to Paice, February 24, 1752, Works, 16: 442. 29. Edwards petitioned on October 5, 1751, to purchase land from the Indians for his homestead and other land near the town for wood. The former most likely was to provide more land for gardening, etc., around the home, as they had had in Northampton. Ola Winslow, Jonathan Edwards, 1703–1758: A Biography (New York: Macmillan, 1940), 278, 367. 30. Christopher W. Mitchell, ''Jonathan Edwards's Scottish Connection,'' paper delivered at ''Jonathan Edwards in Historical Memory'' conference, Coral Gables, Fla., March 9–11, 2000. Edwards' Scottish friends also supplied him with many books that he requested, which made it possible for him to move to Stockbridge without intellectual isolation. Mitchell also documents that as late as February 1751 John McLaurin and John Erskine were still working on finding a position for Edwards in Scotland, though the Stockbridge call may have made that a moot point.
31. Edwards to Timothy Edwards, January 27, 1752, Works, 16: 420. 32. Quoted from Esther Burr, Diary, 1752, Beinecke, photostat in Stockbridge Library, in Frazier, Mohicans of Stockbridge, 94.
33. Robert L. Ferm, Jonathan Edwards the Younger, 1745–1801: A Colonial Pastor (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1976), 15–16. Jonathan Sr., however, declined to learn the Indian languages himself, believing that his time would be better spent teaching them English. Edwards to Pepperrell, January 30, 1753, Works, 16: 562. Clearly, he thought learning Indian languages a better investment for the young, eventually sending young Jonathan Jr. along on a mission to live among the Indians.
34. Edwards to Timothy Edwards, January 27, 1752, Works, 16: 420–21. 35. Dwight, Life, 487n. 36. Princeton University Library MSS, AM 9261, as quoted in Thomas Je√erson Wertenbaker, Princeton: 1746–1896 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1946), 29. Esther remained sensitive about the subject. Her sister Lucy writing to her sister Mary on August 20, 1754, remarked, ''how little able she was to bear to have any body say any thing as though they didn't like her way of marrying.'' Letter in The Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 1754–1757, ed., Carol Karlsen and Laurie Crumpacker (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984), 289.
37. Edwards to John Erskine, November 23, 1752, Works, 16: 540. Edwards to William McCulloch, November 24, 1752, Works, 16: 544.