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of usefulness, as their pastor and their friend. 

 The knowledge of Christianity would be ex- 

 tended, through the superintendence of schools, 

 which might be established among the tribes 

 who are yet in the dark state of heathenism, on 

 the banks of the Grand River. There cannot 

 be conceived a more extensive and promising 

 field of successful missionary labour. I preached 

 in the Mohawk church to about two hundred 

 Indians, and never witnessed a more solemn 

 and attentive audience. They sang one of the 

 Psalms in the Mohawk language with a most 

 pleasing melody and impressive effect. At the 

 conclusion of the service, I baptized twelve of 

 their children, and married a couple. On the 

 following morning, we visited from the Mo- 

 hawk village, the school at Davis's Hamlet, a 

 distance of about five miles, where I saw George 

 Johnson, a native teacher, who was the ap- 

 pointed schoolmaster of the New England 

 Company. He was well qualified as a teacher, 

 and taught in the school or mission house, that 

 was built by the Methodist Episcopal Church 

 Missionary Society, with their appointed school- 

 master, S. Crawford. This school was esta- 

 blished nearly five years ago, and originated 

 with Thomas Davis, a Mohawk chief, who gave 

 me an interesting account of his conversion, 



