History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River

me and went away. I then addressed another principal man in the

same manner, who sa;d he was willing to hear me. After some time, I followed the

my

king into his house, and discourse to him : but he

talking,

and

left

renewed

declined the affair to another,

who appeared to be a rational man.

He

and talked very warmly near a quarter of an hour together; he enquired why I desired the Indians to become began

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in New ware, at which place, and at Crossweeksung, Jersey, His towards the sea," he met with considerable success.

John Brainerd, about the same time, established a mission at Bethel, New Jersey, where he drew together a per

brother,

manent congregation. But the changes of this period were not confined to the Mabicans and Lenapes. It is said that in 1748, a band of chief sachem, White, put them fugitive Nanticokes^ under their selves

under the protection of the Six Nations

on the Delaware. 2

at

Conestoga

If the Moravian missionaries were correctly

informed, their presence was a source of weakness rather than Loskiel states that they " instructed of strength to their allies. the Delawares and

Iroquois in preparing a peculiar kind

of

poison," which was capable of infecting whole townships and tribes with "disorders as pernicious as the plague," and that they " Their history, nearly destroyed their own nation by it." until their final disappearance in the west, was not particularly distinguished, perhaps for the reason stated by Loskiel.