people till age incapacitated him, and younger laborers stepped During his old age, he went to live with his kindred

in.

at

New Stockbridge, where

adds to

:

" It

is

whom we

he died

in

1792.

New

Schoolcraft

England clergy, expressly stated by the are indebted for these notices, that his Christian

HUDSON RIVER INDIANS.

and ministerial character were well approved, and that he was deemed to possess a peculiar fluency and aptness in teaching the Indians, over

whom he exercised a happy

influence.

It

is

inferable, but not distinctly said, that the first or early period of his ministry formed the one of his most active usefulness ;

but his whole

conversion, is to be regarded as a triumphant evidence of the power and endurance of the gospel life,

after

his

Nor am I aware that we have a

truth in the Indian heart.

superior, if an equal, instance of an individual of the pure Indian

blood having been ordained to the ministry who has left behind so excellent a testimony of consistent usefulness. The foundation of the tribe of the Brothertons is a work due to his

him

enterprise, foresight

and exertions.

The practical working of The Brothertons

the plan which he introduced was excellent.

continued to dwell

county

together at their

first

location in

Oneida

they had well advanced in elementary education and

till

At this period of their history, they sent delegates to

the arts.

Wisconsin to procure a cession of territory from the indigenous Indians of Fox river of that state, on the borders of