friendly interview . allowed him to go back alone to gather
up his people preliminary to arranging terms of peace. Alter the treaty he retired
to a i 'latitat ion in Monroe county, where he lived in comfort ami was greatly respected
by his white neighbors until hisdeath. As an illustration of his courage it istold how
he once, single-handed, arrested two murderers immediately after the crime, when the
local justice and a large crowd of bystanders were afraid to approach them. Jackson
declared him to be as high tone.] and tearless as any man lie had ever met. In person
he was tall, straight, and well proportioned, with features indicating intelligence,
bravery, and enterprise. Authorities: Pickett, Alabama, ed. 1896; Drake. Indians,
ed. 1880; Woodward, Reminiscences, 1859.
(37) Reverend David Brainerd (p. 104): The pioneer American missionary
from whomthe noted Cherokee mission took its name was born at Haddam, Con-
necticut, April 20, 1718, and died at Northampton, Massachusetts. October 9, 17)7.
He entered Yale college in 1739, but was expelled on account of his religious opinions.
In 1741' he was licensed as a preacher and the next year began work as missionary to
the Mahican Indians of the village of Kaunameek, twenty miles from Stockbridge,
Massachusetts, lie persuaded them to remove to Stockbridge, where he put them
in chargeof a resident minister, after which he took up work with good result among
the Delaware and other tribes on the Delaware and Susquehanna rivers. In 1717
his health failed and he was forced to retire to Northampton, where he died a
few months later. He wrote a journal and an account of his missionary labors