At a General Assembly of the governor and Company of His Majesty's English colony of Connecticut, in New-England, in America : holden at Hartford, in said colony, on the second Thursday of May, in the third year of the reign of His Majesty George the Third, King of Great-Britain, &c. Anno Domini, 1763. : On the memorial of the Rev'd Mr. Eleazar Wheelock, representing, "That for some years past, he has had under his care and tuition, several youths of the distant Indian tribes ..." ... This Assembly do thereupon grant and order a brief, throughout the colony; recommending it to all our inhabitants, charitably and liberally, to their ability to contribute to such pious and important purpose ...