The government of New York did not make any effort to christianize the Five Nations further than to pay, for some time, a small salary to the clergyman at Albany to attend to the wants of such Indians as might apply to him. The Rev. Mr Freeman of that city translated a great part of the English liturgy, the morning and evening prayers, the litany, the Athanasian Creed, with some passages of the old and New Testamentinto the Indian tongue, but those professing to be christians in 1710, are represented as "so ignorant and scandalous that they can scarce be reputed Christians."2? In 1712, Mr. Andrews was sent as a Missionary to the Mohawks by the Society for propagating the Gospel, and a church was built at the mouth of the Scohary creek, but this Missionary soon abandoned the place, and as he was

the first, sowas he the last, that resided among them for a great

many years, the Society afterwards contenting themselves with imitating the policy of the government and allowing a small stipend to their clergyman at Albany to act as a missionary to the Mohawks. In which capacity he did them but very little good.

In 1748, the people of New England turned their attention to this field of labor, and the Revd Messts Spencer, Woodbridge,

1 O'Call. N. Netherland ii,, 319. F 2N. Y. Doct. Hist. iii.

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and Hawley visited successively the tribes on the Mohawk and Susquehannah rivers.'. The commencement of the French war, soon afterwards, interrupted all missionary efforts west of Albany, which were not renewed until 1761, when the Rev? Dr.Wheelock directed his attention to that quarter, and endeavoured: by introducing Indians, as missionaries and schoolmasters, to reclaim the Natives from their savage life. He gives the result of his efforts and experience, in these words: