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It was somewhat humiliating to me to be in the neighbourhood+ of a Missionary (the Rev. John Sargeant) to an Indian tribe (Stockbrige Indians), who was maintained upon such a respectable footing, as he was by the "society of propagating the Gospel among the Indians and others in North America", in Boston. He was supplied with means which enabled him to maintain three schools in the tribe & for himself with a salary of $500 per. an. But I, under the authority of the Protestant Episcopal church, acting in three capacities as a

+ within four miles of the Oneida caste, the central part of the Oneida reservation.