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" A school was soon established among them, and 

 the general court gave the neighboring Indians a 

 tract of highland, and furnished them with various 

 implements of husbandry. The Indians, many of 

 them, professed Christianity, and the whole in the 

 vicinity became settled, and conducted their affairs 

 with prudenx;e and industry. They erected a house 

 of worship for themselves ; they adopted the customs 

 of their English neighbors; made laws, and had 

 magistrates of their own. The increase of the Indian 

 converts was such, that they found the place too strait 

 for them, and there was a removal of the tribe to 

 Natick, about ten miles southwest. The first organ- 

 ized church, purely Indian, was at Natick. The 

 ardor and zeal of Eliot and others was crowned with 

 such success, that in 1660 there were ten towns of 

 Indians in Massachusetts who were converted to the 

 Christian religion." 



The Ojibwa, or Chippeway, nation, in Canada and 

 the United States, numbers over 30,000, who inhabit 

 all the northern part of Michigan, or the south shore 

 of Lake Huron, for 800 miles, the upper part of 

 the Mississippi river, &c. Numerous other tribes of 

 Indians inhabit the Western and Southern States. 



Mr. Eliot translated the whole Bible into the 



