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Favour, and Proteftion of the Society. The Society 
v/ere fully fatisfied with Mr. Neafs Behaviour, and con- 
tinued to fend him Numbers of Catechifms and fmall 
Trafts of Devotion and Inftruction, to give among the 
Slaves and Servants at his Difcretion. Mr. Neau 
vered with the fame Diligence till the Year 1722, in 
which he died, much regretted by all who knew his 
Labours. 
The Society have been very careful in carrying on that 
great and good Work, as far as in their Power lay, ever 
fince ; and though they have not been fo fuccefsful as 
they could have wiihed, yet their Difappointments have 
not been of a Nature to make them defpair, and we may 
reafonably prefume, that by degrees, and by a conftant 
Perfeverance, they will, in procefs of Time, overcome all 
Difficulties. 
6. After the Acceffion of Queen Anne to the Crown, 
and this Nation’s engaging in another general War againft 
France^ it was thought a thing of very great Confequence 
to fecure the five Indian Nations bordering upon New 
England and New Tork ; and therefore, inflead of wait- 
ing for an Application from the Society, an Order was 
direfted to them from the Privy Council upon this Sub- 
jed: ; and they were direded to fend over Miffionaries 
without delay, with a Promife that they ffiould be pro- 
perly fupported; and this in Terms that very plainly 
fhewed the Government looked upon it as a Matter that 
did not only regard the Church, but the State. The So- 
ciety, upon this, fent over, very foon after, one Mr. 
Moor^ and intended to have fent over other Miffionaries 
if his Endeavours had met with any Succefs. The 
Scheme was very wife and very good, yet it did not an- 
fwer in the Execution, for Want, as I conceive, of pro- 
per Expence about it. In a national Concern like this. 
Money ffiould not have been fpared, and great Care ought 
to have been taken in Preparations before any thing had 
been hazarded in the Execution ; fo that a Number of 
Miffionaries ffiould have entered the Indian Countries 
at once, fome or other of which would certainly have fal- 
len upon the right Way of gaining the Affedion of thefe 
People, which it feems was not the good Fortune of 
Mr. Moor \ who arriving at New Tork in 1 704, was very 
well received by Lord Cornbury^ who was then Governor 
of that Colony, and who alfo gave him all the Affift- 
ance he could defire in his Miffion ; but the Mohocks^ 
to whom he addreffed himfelf, did not treat him as he 
expeded *, for at firfb they feemed to exprefs very great 
Satisfadion at his Arrival, and to be extremely well 
pleafed with his Concern for their Salvation , but they 
trifled with him afterwards, and at laft gave him plainly 
to underftand, that his coming amongfl them would be 
to little purpofe ; for under Pretence that Religion was a 
public Concern, in which all their Families and little 
Clans had an equal Concern, fo that he could not be re- 
cdved by any wkhout the common Confent, they put 
him off from Time to Time, and would have put him 
off for evei, if, after a Years waiting, he had not return- 
ed to New York ; where he embarked on board a Ship 
for England^ but was unhappily loft in his Paffage. 
Thus was the Attempt fruftrated ; but the Society re- 
ceived Accounts that this ill Succefs was owing not only 
to the Averfion of the Indians to Chriftianity, but was 
very much occafioned by the Artifices of the French Je- 
fuits, who induftrioufly obftruded the Labours of the 
Englijh Miffionaries among them, and left no Means 
untried to leduce them from their Fidelity to the Crown 
of England^ and keep them in a continual War with the 
Englijh. And indeed all the Evils that the Englilh Colo- 
nies have undergone during the laft War, have been 
occafionv-d by the Indiatts^ that is, thofe Indians which 
the jefuits have by their Artifices corrupted; for amono- 
the five Nations there is a great Number of French Je"^ 
ffiits, who are incorporated, by Adoption, into their 
1 nbes, and as fuch they oftentatioufiy alTume Iroquois 
Names; and the Chief of the poor Iiilj Indians^ confi- 
eiing them as Perfons of their own Blood, do intirely 
confide in them, and admit them into their Councils, 
from wherice one inay eafily imagine what Diforders the 
Jeiuits make in their Affairs. Befides, the border- 
V OL. 11. Numb. 90. 
ing on New England are the moft cruel and barbarous 
of ail the Savage Nations, and have deftroyed all their 
innocent Neighbours. They are always unfixed, either 
rambling for feveral Months together, or hunting, or 
upon warlike Expeditions ; and at their Return to their 
Villages, have generally forgot all their former In- 
ftrudlions, and it is impoffible for any Minifter to ac- 
company them in their Rambles of three or four hundred 
Leagues at a Time. After this good Endeavour was de- 
feated, the Indians remained without Inftrudion, except 
that fome few were taught by the Eutch Minifter at Al- 
bany. But the Year 1 709 produced an Event, which the 
Society hoped might have had very happy Confequences, 
and fixed Chriftianity among the Iroquois. Four Sachems, 
or four chief Perfons of four Nations of the Iroquois^ 
came in the Nature of Embaffadors to England., confirm- 
ing the Peace made with the Governor of New Tork^ 
and requefting her Majefty would be pleafed to diredl 
that their Subjedls might be inftrudted in Chriftianity,, 
and Minifters might be fent to refide amongft them. 
The Archbiffiop of Canterbury received, thereupon, the 
following Letter from the Earl of Sunderland^ then one of 
her Majefty’s principal Secretaries of State. 
“ My Lord, Whitehall April 1710. 
“ The inclofed being a Copy of what has been given 
“ to the Qtieen, by the Embaffadors lately arrived from 
“ the five Indian Nations ; I am ordered by her Majefty 
“ to tranfmit it to your Grace, and to fignify to you her 
“ Pleafure, that you lay it before the Society for propa- 
“ gating Religion, that they may confider vffiat may be 
“ the moft proper Ways of cultivating that good Dif- 
‘‘ pofition thele Indians feem to be in for receiving the 
“ Chriftian Faith, and for fending thither fit Perfons for 
“ that purpofe, and to report their Opinion without 
“ Lofs of Time, that the fame may be laid before her 
“ Majefty. I am., &c. 
Sunderland., &c.” 
The Archbiffiop was then much indifpofed, and con- 
fined to his Houfe with the Gout, and therefore fignified 
to the Secretary of the Society to call a Committee to 
meet at Lambeth ; a Committee met, and it was agreed 
there, and afterwards by the Society at a general Meet- 
ing, that two Miffionaries ffiould be fent to the Mohock 
and Oncydes\ Indians, with a Sallary of one hundred and 
fifty Pounds Sterling each, together with an Interpreter 
and School-mafter, to teach the young Indians ; and this 
Opinion was humbly laid before the Queen ; her Ma- 
jefty was farther pleafed to direft that a Fort ffiould be 
built among the Mohocks, at the Government’s Ex- 
pence, with a Chapel and a Manfion-houfe for the Mi- 
nifter, for his greater Conveniency and Security, and that 
the religious Offices might be performed with due De- 
cency ; a Fort was foon after built one hundred and fifty 
Foot Square, and garrifoned with twenty Soldiers and 
an Officer, and a Houfe and Chapel compleated. The 
reverend Mr. 'Andrews was appointed Miffionary, and 
Mr. Claufen, who had been feveral Years employed as 
Interpreter by the Government of Nezv Fork, in Tranf- 
acftions with the Indians-, was received as Interpreter to 
Mr. Andrews, and Mr. Oliver made School-mafter. Mr. 
Andrews was particularly diredted by the Society, to life 
all poffible Means to perfuade the Indians to let their 
Children learn Englijh ; and the School-mafter was to 
make it his whole Bufinefs to teach them. The Society 
was now in good Hopes this Attempt v/ould prove fuc- 
cefsful, fmce her Majefty was fo gracioiifty pleafed to 
provide for the Security of the Miffionary, by building 
a Fort juft by the Mohocks Caftle, to which the Men 
and Children might eafily refort to be inftrudled ; and 
the Sachems, the chief Perfons of this People, had been 
in England, received many Marks of Royal Favour, had 
been Eye-witneftes of the Greatnefs of the Nation, had 
been nobly ptertained here, and carried home to their 
own Countries fafely and honourably, and had themfelves 
alfo-defired their People might be inftrudled in the Chrif- 
tian Faith. . 
