Of all the number before mentioned, I dont hear of more than half who have preserved their characters unstain'd, either by a course of intemperance or uncleanness, or both; and some who on account of their parts, and learning, bid the fairest for usefulness, are sunk down into as low, savage, and brutish a manner of living as they were in before any endeavours were used with them to raise them up: and there are some of whom I did, and do still entertain hope that they were really the subjects of God's grace, who have not wholly kept their garments unspotted amongst the pots. And six of those who did preserve a good character, are now dead.' 2

The necessity of having missionaries of the church of England resident among the Mohawks was again brovight before the Society for the propagation of the Gospel a few years before the Revolution, both by Sir W™ Johnson and the Rev. M* Inglis of New-York, the last of whom also laid the subject before the

government in England in the form of a Memorial. In the year 1770, the Society again consented to ordain a Missionary for the exclusive service of the Mohawks.

1 N.Y. Doc. Hist. iii. 2 Wheelock's Narr. for 1771, p. 19.

REV. JOHN STUART D, D. 507

Jouy Sruart, who was selected for this purpose, was born at Harrisburg in Pennsylvania in 1740. The family mansion in which he first saw the light was yet standing in 1836, His father, Andrew Stuart, came to America from the town of Omagh in Ireland, about the year 1730; besides the subject of this memoir he had three sons, James, Andrew & Charles. The first died young ; the others--Andrew and Charles--died some years ago, both at an advanced age, in the Western part of Pennsylvania, having been in the worst of times, staunch supporters of the cause of American liberty.