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his services, and regard to him, would not be prevailed 

 on by himself, or his family, to name another in his stead, 

 for that station ; but continued to return his name till he 

 died. 



"Through every station in life, his good will to man- 

 kind, his love of peace and good order, and his en- 

 deavors to give them a permanent footing in his neigh- 

 hood, and in the county in general, were Imown to be 

 his delight and study : his sense of religion, and the 

 testimony he bore to it, were free from intemperate zeal, 

 yet earnest, and attended with life and spirit, influenced 

 by the love of God, and benevolence to his Avhole crea- 

 tion ; such he continued, with his understanding clear, 

 his mind calm, cheerful and resigned, to the advanced 

 period of old age, Vv^hen he expired without a groan."* 



This year, 1741, a Mr. Serjeant, a gentlemen of New 

 England, took a journey to the Shawanese, and some 

 other tribes on the Susquehanna, and he may, it is proba- 

 ble, have visited the Indians in this county, and offered 

 to instruct them in the christian religion ; but they would 

 have none of his instruction ; they rejected his offer 

 with disdain. The poor fellows had experienced, to 

 their sorrow, too many wrongs at the hands of those 

 who should have treated them kindly. "They re- 

 proached Christianity, judging it, as they did by the lives 

 of those v:ho jjro/essed to be christians. They told him 

 the traders would lie, cheat, and debauch their daughters 

 and sisters, and even their wives, if their husbands were 

 not at home. They said further, that the Senec^s had 

 given them their country, but charged them, 'never to 

 receive Christianity from the English.''^ \ 



1742. — A respectable number of the Ornish, of Lan- 

 caster county, petitioned the General Assembly that a 



*rroud. fProud, 11. 312. 



