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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  sion 
  work 
  alone, 
  preaching 
  at 
  Oquaga 
  and 
  elsewhere. 
  The 
  Rev. 
  

   Eli 
  Forbes 
  went 
  there 
  in 
  1762, 
  with 
  the 
  Rev. 
  Asaph 
  Rice. 
  They 
  

   returned 
  in 
  1763. 
  In 
  that 
  year 
  Samuel 
  Ashpo 
  spent 
  six 
  weeks 
  

   at 
  Otsiningo. 
  

  

  In 
  1761 
  the 
  Rev. 
  Samson 
  Occum 
  went 
  from 
  the 
  school 
  at 
  

   Lebanon 
  to 
  Oneida, 
  and 
  Samuel 
  Kirkland 
  visited 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  

   valley, 
  being 
  then 
  quite 
  young. 
  His 
  later 
  work 
  in 
  New 
  York 
  

   began 
  in 
  1764, 
  when 
  he 
  left 
  Joseph 
  Woolley 
  as 
  teacher 
  at 
  Oquaga 
  

   in 
  November 
  and 
  then 
  went 
  to 
  the 
  Senecas, 
  remaining 
  there 
  till 
  

   1766. 
  Among 
  the 
  Oneidas 
  and 
  Mohawks 
  127 
  were 
  then 
  attend- 
  

   ing 
  school. 
  After 
  leaving 
  the 
  Senecas, 
  Kirkland 
  for 
  a 
  time 
  

   alternated 
  between 
  Oquaga 
  and 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  valley. 
  At 
  a 
  later 
  

   day 
  his 
  public 
  services 
  were 
  of 
  inestimable 
  value. 
  

  

  The 
  Rev. 
  Messrs 
  C. 
  J. 
  Smith 
  and 
  Theophilus 
  Chamberlain 
  

   were 
  at 
  Oquaga 
  in 
  the 
  fall 
  of 
  1764, 
  and 
  in 
  1769 
  that 
  place 
  had 
  

   been 
  served 
  for 
  three 
  years 
  by 
  the 
  Rev. 
  Eleazar 
  Moseley, 
  fol- 
  

   lowed 
  by 
  the 
  Rev. 
  Peter 
  and 
  Henry 
  Avery. 
  Aaron 
  Crosby 
  was 
  

   there 
  in 
  1771, 
  and 
  in 
  1774 
  had 
  trouble 
  with 
  the 
  Indians 
  from 
  his 
  

   refusal 
  to 
  use 
  the 
  liturgy 
  or 
  to 
  baptize 
  some 
  children. 
  

  

  While 
  others 
  testified 
  to 
  a 
  great 
  advance, 
  as 
  there 
  certainly 
  

   had 
  been, 
  the 
  scholarly 
  Dr 
  Wheelock 
  was 
  greatly 
  disappointed 
  

   in 
  the 
  results 
  of 
  the 
  education 
  of 
  Indians. 
  After 
  telling 
  all 
  he 
  

   had 
  taught 
  them, 
  he 
  said 
  : 
  " 
  Some 
  who 
  on 
  account 
  of 
  their 
  parts 
  

   and 
  learning 
  bid 
  the 
  fairest 
  for 
  usefulness, 
  are 
  sunk 
  down 
  as 
  low, 
  

   savage 
  and 
  brutish 
  in 
  manner 
  of 
  living 
  as 
  they 
  were 
  before 
  any 
  

   endeavours 
  were 
  used 
  to 
  raise 
  them 
  up." 
  

  

  Space 
  will 
  not 
  permit 
  enlarging 
  on 
  the 
  frequent 
  failures 
  in 
  

  

  Indian 
  education, 
  caused 
  by 
  following 
  theories 
  and 
  disregarding 
  

  

  the 
  advice 
  of 
  practical 
  men, 
  acquainted 
  with 
  the 
  situation. 
  At 
  

  

  this 
  time 
  the 
  action 
  of 
  the 
  Oquagas 
  indicates 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  advance 
  

  

  already 
  made 
  : 
  

  

  They 
  would 
  in 
  order 
  to 
  restore 
  peace 
  in 
  their 
  town, 
  enter 
  into 
  

   a 
  general 
  resolution 
  to 
  abide 
  by 
  the 
  Liturgy 
  printed 
  in 
  the 
  Indian 
  

   language 
  ; 
  that 
  they 
  had 
  reason 
  to 
  believe 
  the 
  [Missionary 
  would 
  

   conform 
  to 
  it, 
  in 
  which 
  case 
  they 
  would 
  let 
  him 
  stay, 
  otherwise 
  

   they 
  would 
  use 
  the 
  Liturgy 
  themselves 
  till 
  a 
  proper 
  person 
  

   could 
  be 
  provided. 
  

  

  