O n June 17, 1744, the officials from Maryland and Virginia held a talk with the Indians of the Six Nations. T he Indians were invited to send boys to William and Mary College. I n a letter the next day the refused the offer as follows : W e know that you have a high opinion of the kind of learning taught in your colleges, and that the costs of living of our young men, while with you, would be very expensive to you. W e are convinced that you mean to do us good by your proposal; and we thank you heartily. B ut you must know that different nations have different ways of looking at things, and you will therefore not be offended if your ideas of this kind of education happen not t be the same as yours. W e have had some experience of it. S everal of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces: they were taught all your sciences ; but, when they came back to us, they were bad runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods ... they were totally good for nothing. W e are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we refuse to accept it; and, to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send up a dozen of their sons, we will take care of their education, teach them in all we know, and make men of them.