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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.

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

John Sergeant letter

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 810681
Mss 810681
Date(s): 1810-12-31
Abstract

In English.

John Sergeant letter

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 792654
Mss 792654
Date(s): 1792-12-04
Scope and Contents

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 Sergeant letter

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 791567
Mss 791567
Date(s): 1791-10-17
Scope and Contents

Letter from John Sergeant to Peter Thacher advises that the schools be located at Genesse and Oneida.

John Sergeant letter

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 815460.2
Mss 815460.2
Date(s): 1815-08-10
Abstract

In English.

John Sergeant letter

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 791409
Mss 791409
Date(s): 1791-07-09
Scope and Contents

Letter from John Sergeant of Stockbridge to Peter Thacher he will try to make his journals more entertaining. Agrees with Kirkland about the location of schools at Genesee and Oneida.

John Wheelock letter

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 814602
Mss 814602
Date(s): 1814-11-02
Scope and Contents

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

 Collection
Identifier: 003405
Codex 003405
Date(s): 1804 to 1824
Abstract

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.

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