Sergeant, John, Jr. , 1747-1824
Dates
- Existence: 1747 - 1824
Biography
John Sergeant Jr. was born in 1747 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He graduated from Princeton University after which he returned to Stockbridge where he was ordained as a minister of the Congregational Church. In 1775, he took charge of the Stockbridge Indian Mission and School which his father John Sergeant Sr. (1710-1749) had founded. When the Stockbridge Indians relocated among the Oneidas at New Stockbridge, N.Y., Sergeant continued his work there. He later attempted to assist the tribe in their aborted 1818 move to the White River in Ohio and in their removal to the Fox River near Green Bay, Wisconsin. Sergeant died in 1824.
Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:
John Sergeant letter
In English.
John Sergeant letter
Two page letter from John Sergeant of New Stockbridge to Peter Thacher praising the work of Ebenezer Calkin, and saying that he does not get enough pay to support him.
John Wheelock letter
Two-page letter from John Wheelock at Dartmouth College to John Sergeant, informing him that the war has cut off communications with Canada and that he has now but one Indian student. Asks Sergeant to send him some more, to be educated at the expense of the fund in Scotland.
Journal of John Sergeant, missionary to the Stockbridge Indians from the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge from January 1804 to July 1824
John Sergeant Jr. (1747-1824) journal in chapters by year, including 1804-1805; 1810-1813; 1815-1816; 1818-1820; and 1824. The journal served the function of being his semiannual report to the Society in Scotland for propagating Christian knowledge.