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The Moravian church continued to send missionaries to the Munsee. Under the Dawes Act , the Chippewa-Christian Indian Reservation, as it was known in the 1859 treaty, was allotted to the individual members and descendants of the tribes in separate 160-acre plots.
The Stockbridge–Munsee Community, also known as the Mohican Nation Stockbridge–Munsee Band, is a federally recognized Native American tribe formed in the late eighteenth century from communities of so-called "praying Indians" (or Moravian Indians), descended from Christianized members of two distinct groups: Mohican and Wappinger from the praying town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and ...
New Beginnings High School webpage G 39°47′30.5″N 86°09′28″W / 39.791806°N 86.15778°W / 39.791806; -86 This Indiana school-related article is a stub .
In the 1780s, groups of Stockbridge Indians, today regarded as Stockbridge Munsee, moved from Massachusetts to a new location among the Oneida people in central New York, who had been granted a 300,000-acre (120,000 ha) reservation for their service to the Patriots, out of their former territory of 6,000,000 acres (2,400,000 ha).
Lee, New Hampshire: Building had previously been a Baptist church. [5] 44: Blow-Me-Down Grange: 1839 built 2001 NRHP-listed 1071 NH 12-A: Plainfield, New Hampshire: Greek Revival architecture [2] 45.5: Lower Intervale Grange No. 321: 1912 built 2022 NRHP-listed
John Eliot was an English colonist and Puritan minister who played an important role in the establishment of praying towns. In the 1630s and 1640s, Eliot worked with bilingual indigenous Algonquians including John Sassamon, an orphan of the Smallpox pandemic of 1633, and Cockenoe, an enslaved Montauk prisoner of the Pequot War, to translate several Christian works, eventually including the ...
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John Sergeant (1710 – July 27, 1749) was an American missionary in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, through whose ministry many Mahicans converted to Christianity. Reverend Sergeant was a graduate of Yale, who became an ordained Puritan minister. [1]