This document has been copied from the archives of the American Board of commissioners for Foreign Missions in the Library at the Congregational House, No. 14 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. Volume No. 248 is labelled ABENAQUIS AND OREGON INDIANS, 1844-1859. In that volume document No. 78 is indexed as "Information given personally by Dr. Whitman in Boston, 1843." The volume contains various letters and reports from missionaries and others, including many pertaining to the murder of Dr. Whitman and subsequent events. Document No. 78 is not in the hand-writing of Dr. Whitman and is not signed. If not written on April 4th, 1843, by a secretary of the Prudential Committee, it obviously was prepared from the records of that committee and bound in among other papers relating to the Oregon Mission, one of which bears date as early as 1828. This document has not been heretofore printed, as far as known, and is now presented, without comment, for the use of those interested in one of the mooted questions in Oregon history.—T. C. Elliott.
