The Ancient Burial Place of the Stockbridge Indians, the Friends of Our Fathers." John Sergeant, a tutor of Yale, became missionary to the Indians in 1735, but died in 1747; and was succeeded by Jonathan Edwards, the elder, who came from Northampton in... Automobile Blue Book - Page 721921Full view - About this book
| Franklin Leonard Pope - Massachusetts - 1886 - 72 pages
...reverent hands have reared above their dust in the old Indian burial ground at Stockbridge : — " The ancient burial place of the Stockbridge Indians, the friends of our fathers," — is a well-deserved tribute to the memory of a noble race. They welcomed the explorer Hudson with... | |
| Richard Burton - American poetry - 1909 - 116 pages
...monument, set on a tree-shaded knoll overlooking a beautiful reach of meadow. It bears the inscription: "The ancient burial place of the Stockbridge Indians, the friends of our Fathers."] I, in this pleasant meadow-place, By trees o'erhung and with the breath Of summer fragrant, for a space... | |
| Automobile travel - 1919 - 1050 pages
...converted to Christianity and Kiven full citizenship; their memory is commemorated by a rough atone monument on West Main St., inscribed. "The Ancient...Friends of our Fathers." John Sergeant, a tutor of Vale, became missionary to the Indians in 1735, but died in 1747; and was succeeded by Jonathan Edwards,... | |
| American essays - 1904 - 1042 pages
...set on a tree-shaded knoll oTerlooking a beautif ul reach of meadow. It bears the inscription : ' ' The ancient burial place of the Stockbridge Indians, the friends of our Fathers."] HEDE, in this pleasant meadow-place, By trees o'erhung and with the breath Of summer fragrant, for... | |
| American literature - 1904 - 904 pages
...monument, set on a tree-shaded knoll overlooking a beautiful reach of meadow. It bears the inscription: "The ancient burial place of the Stockbridge Indians, the friends of our Fathers."] HERE, in this pleasant meadow-place, By trees o'erhung and with the breath Of summer fragrant, for... | |
| Automobile travel - 1920 - 1352 pages
...STOCKBRIDGE. MASS. Stockbridge, Mass. (pop. 1,901, alt. from 800 to 1,000 ft.). Located on the ancient lande of the Stockbridge Indians, who were converted to...from Northampton in 1751, and remained until called to the presidency of Princeton College in 1757. Here, in a house since removed to make way for a private... | |
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