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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.

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