At the close of the war the Oneidas granted him a tract of land two miles square, lying on the Wood creek west of Rome, to which he removed in 1784. Here he continued two years, when he effected an

exchange with the nation for the tract of land lying in Westmoreland, known as Dean's patent, to which he removed, and where he continued to reside until his death in September,

Stone's Life

1832.

of'Brant , i, Appendix.

SAMUEL

KIRKLAND.

This

distin

guished missionary was born at Norwich, Conn., 1742. After a special education

work, he was sent to Oneida 1766, and continued to labor among that tribe for forty years. During the revolutionary war he was in the pay of the United States, and in 1779, was brigade chaplain in General Sullivan's for |the

Castle, in

campaign against the Indians of western New York. After the peace he re mained among the Oneidas, and in 1788, assisted at the great Indian council for the

extinction of their title to

country.

the

So sensible was the

Genesee state

go

vernment of the value of his services, that in the year

1789,

it

granted him a tract

of land two miles square in the present town of Kirkland, whither he imme diately removed, and where he subse

quently made a liberal endowment of land for the purpose of founding a school

which was originally called Hamilton Oneida Academy, subsequently incorpo rated under the name of Hamilton Col lege.

After a life of much public useful