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“There are Five hundred and five Adult Persons of Indians within the Limits of our Township, unto whom these many years past, I have from time to time imparted the Gospel of our Lord Jesus in their own Language (and I truly hope not without Success) and yet I continue in the same Service, earnestly imploring, and not without Hopes, expecting and waiting for a more plentiful down-pouring of the Spirit from on high among them: And I verily do not know of, nor can I learn that there is so much as one of these Five Hundred Indians that does obstinately absent from, but do jointly frequent and attend on the Preaching of the Word, and countenance the same, not only frequenting and attending Seasons of Worship of a Divine Sanction, but also all other Occasional Opportunities, when the Gospel is dispens’d to them; and when our Congregations solemnize public Days of Prayer with Fasting, or of Praises (I usually giving them Advertisement thereof) they readily comply therewith, in their respective Assemblies.

“They have Four distinct Assemblies in four Villages belonging to our Township, in which Four Assemblies they have Four Teachers of their own Choice, of the more Sober, Well-affected and Understanding Persons among them, who do duly preach to them, when I am not with them: These Indian Teachers repair to my House once a Week, to be further instructed…in the Concernments proper for their Service and Station.”