the W-nahk-ta-kook, or the Great definitely located on council the chamber of the nation, where a Meadow, great
was
township six miles square was laid out by the legislature as a reservation under the name of Stockbridge, by which name the
Mahicans who were then located there, as well as those who subsequently removed thither, were known to the authorities of Massachusetts and New York. 1 Following closely upon the establishment of the Stockbridge mission, the Moravians began their labors in the Mahican coun try.
With a zeal remarkable for its voluntarily assumed sacri
fices,
and more pure than that which characterized the labors of
other organizations, because without political interests to serve,
they had pushed their way into the
Stockbridge, Past and Present.
territory of the Creeks
Twenty
in his labors, by a young Mahican,
miles distant, at a village called Kaunaumeek y David Brainerd, a licentiate acting under similar authority, estahis people to remove to Stockbridge.
Wished a mission in 1743.
*
He was aided
and
John Wauwaumpequnnaunt, and met with so
muchsuccess thathewas enabled to induce
OF HUDSON'S RIVER. Cherokees of Georgia, in 1735.
Driven thence by the political
troubles with the Spaniards, they established a colony at Bethle
hem, on the Delaware, and, in 1740, founded a mission in the The pioneer in the latter field was present county of Dutchess. Christian Henry Rauch, who arrived in
New York, in July of
that year, seeking missionary labor, and where he soon after met
a company of Mahicans who were there to renew their covenant