Francis Whiting Halsey

“ No man more than he had encouraged the noble and successful David Brainerd in his work on the frontier of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania between the years 1744 and 1747. Brainerd’s labors in the main were on the Delaware near the site of Easton, but he labored also on the Susquehanna in Pennsylvania. In 1745 he appears to have gone to Oghwaga, since he preached on the Susquehanna to Indians whom he had known at Stockbridge.
In those days, at Edwards’s house lived the Rev. Elihu Spencer. ”

“ To a council in Albany he was able at this time to summon sixty Oghwaga warriors, "with the usual train of old men, women and children," who came up in charge of Captain Vrooman and Captain Staats. The warriors said they knew several roads to Canada, and wished "to see the hatchet that we may grasp it." Fourteen of them were at once despatched against the enemy in a company of sixty men. ”

“ Spencer arrived in 1748, he therefore came to a savage people who were not strangers to English influence, religious, as well as political and military. He was a young man of twenty-seven, a graduate of Yale, and from Brainerd had learned some of the rudiments of the Indian language. ”