rum was mate

rially abridged by their teachings, lost no opportunity to misre

present them and accuse them falsely ; finally, they were ejected from the lands at Shekomeko under a claim that they belonged to the white people and not to the Indians. rest at

After a temporary

Wechquadnach and Pisgachtigok, they removed, with

many of their followers, to Pennsylvania, where they formed a colony to which they gave the name of Freidenshutten, (tents of peace).

Their stay here was

short.

Gnadenhutten (tents

of grace) received them for a time, and from thence they shared the roving fortunes of the Moravians, followed in all their wander ings by their faithful Mahican converts. Meanwhile the commissioners of the society in Scotland for

Propagating the Gospel had entered upon the work of diffusing Christian knowledge among the Indians, and had commissioned

the

Rev.

David Brainerd

to

labor

among

the

Delawares.

Having transferred his mission among the Mahicans to the Rev.

Mr. Sergeant, Brainerd visited the Delaware country in the At Minnisink he encountered the opposition spring of 1744. of the Indians, 2 but established himself at the Forks of the Dela1

Hccke*welder*s Narrative; Life and Times of David Zeisberger ; LoskiePs History of the Mission of the United Brethren ;

contract

Memorials of the Moravian Church ; The Moravians in Neiv York and Connecticut ;

happiness) to instruct them in Christianity. At which he laughed and turned his

Documentary History of Nc<w York;

back upon

Stone's

Life of Brant, etc. "I then set out on my journey toward