Service was read to the Mohawks at Canajoharie by Paulus Sahonwadi, the Indian Schoolmaster. Some idea of the difficulties attendant on conveying elementary instruction to the Indians in those days may be formed from:the circumstance that the teacher had no elementary books. Paulus & the other Mohawk teachers taught the Alphabet &¢ by means only of little manuscript scraps of paper. It was notuntil several years after, that Col. Claus composed a short primer for them.?

In the year 1775 commenced the upheaving of those elements which in a short time terminated in the birth of this Republic. The agitation which followed rent, society in pieces, and many who had been previously neighbours and friends, now found themselves enemies, and opposed to each other in the deadliest hostility. Suspicion stalked abroad and those who, from whatever motive, shrank from approving the new order of things were denounced and arrested, if they had not already abandoned their homes. No class was so uncompromising in its loyalty as the clergy of the Church of England in this State, and they in consequence, did not fail to experience the bitter effects of their own unwise resolution.

Mr. Stuart however did not experience any inconvenience at first; indeed he remained undisturbed at Fort Hunter, for some time even after the Declaration of Independence, and constantly performed divine service without omitting the prayers for the king, as prescribed in the Liturgy. In the Spring of 1777, Gen! Herkimer received intelligence that some persons belonging to Tryon County intended to join the enemy at Niagara ; he ordered a watch on the high road, which prevented their passage, and on being fired at, they retreated and lost their bundles. On the next day, two packs of letters