Francis Whiting Halsey

“ Thus this school at Lebanon was the germ from which was developed the alma mater of Daniel Webster.
Mr. Wheelock afterward wrote concerning his success at Lebanon that he had educated about forty Indians to become “good readers and writers and even sufficiently master of English grammar, arithmetic and a number of them considerably advanced in knowledge of Greek and Latin and one of them carried through college.” ”

“ The men set on benches on one side of the house and the women on the other. Before a meeting horn is sounded three several times to give notice. In the afternoon we attended the service again. This was performed by the Indian priest in the Oneida language. He began by a prayer; then they sang a psalm, the tune whereof was long, with many undulations, then a prayer and a second psalm, followed by an exhortation, repeating part of what Moseley had said in the morning with his own comments upon it and reading sometimes out of a book, here being several books in the Indian language. ”

“ Isaac is the chief here in religious affairs, and his brother, a stout fat man, in civil, like Moses and Aaron. This last fell asleep while his brother was preaching, but assisted in singing with a loud and hoarse voice. These brothers and other chiefs came to visit us very kindly. An incident,at Oghwaga, of the year 1770 was the killing of a young Tuscarora by Thomas King, an Indian. Greatly depressed by his own act, King decided to submit humbly to the will of the Tuscarora’s friends, but the matter was referred to Sir William Johnson, an old sachem going on a special mission to the baronet. ”