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