stance is a trial, as we have become very anxious to reach our homes. Being at leisure we accompanied the Indian agent in a ride, four miles above Buffalo Creek, to an Indian village of the Senecas, one of the tribes of the Six Nations.

They are making considerable progress in agriculture, live in tolerable log houses, and have a number of cattle, horses and hogs. We saw many of them at work; they were preparing the ground for the plough by rolling logs, taking up stumps, etc.

We also saw among them a large plough at work drawn. by three yoke of oxen, and attended by three Indians. They all appeared to be very merry, and to be pleased with our visit. The land upon which these Indians are settled is of a superior quality. We saw amongst them Red Jacket, Farmer's Brother, and several other distinguished chiefs. Many of these Indians wore in their ears, and round their necks, strung upon strings, several descriptions of lake shells. Here we met with Saccarissa, a principal chief of the Tuscarora tribe. He has come for the purpose of being assisted by the agent in vesting fifteen thousand dollars in the purchase of land from the Holland Land Company. They have greatly declined hunting, and are becoming agriculturists. The Tuscarora Indians removed from North Carolina many years ago, and were received into the then Five Nations, or Iroquois Indians, who gave them a small tract of country, which they now think wants enlarging. It is a fact, that the Six Nations have stock in the Bank of the United States to the amount of more than one hundred thousand dollars, from which they draw regular dividends. This is money which they received some years ago from our Government for the sale of their lands. The chiefs and principal people took the advice of General Washington, in making bank stock of their money.

13th. This morning we set out from Buffalo in a farm wagon drawn by two horses, and traveled 32 miles through a rough and inferior country.

14th. Proceeded 23 miles and reached Batavia, a new town, handsomely situated. We have had a muddy, dis

agreeable road, through a country too flat to be desirable. The land is pretty rich, and very heavily timbered. We have been all day followed by millions of mosquitoes; crossed a handsome stream called the Tanawantae, and were told at the Ford that a little distance above us 120 rattle snakes lay dead. These snakes were killed by some fishermen with their spears, the warm weather having brought them out of their dens. People are making settlement here very rapidly.

[From this point they traveled across the Genesee, passing near Hemlock Lake, and thence to Canandaigua, where they got the stage; then on by Geneva, Cayuga Lake at the long bridge, Utica, down the Mohawk to Albany by the Hudson to New York and by stage to Baltimore, where they ended their journey, May 27, 1804, having been absent "three months and four days and traveled about 2,000 miles."]

VII.

VISIT OF REV.
OF REV. JOSEPH AVERY.

FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT IN POSSESSION
OF HIS GREAT-GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER, MRS.

H. B. DOW, ROCHESTER, N. Y.

Tuesday, Aug. 27, 1805. Set out* on this mission in the afternoon and lodged at Mr. Hyde's.

Wednesday, 28. Morning, rode to Lenox and attended to the business of my suit in court; then rode to N. Lebanon. There was at 3 o'clock a sacramental lecture. Messrs. Perry, Moss, Waters and Robbins were present. It rained before I arrived. Two sermons were preached, and I preached the last. Went to Mr. Churchil's for lodging. We had a ministerial chat in the evening, and Mr.

*From Tyringham, Berkshire Co., Mass. Joseph Avery was a missionary in the service of the Berkshire (Mass.) Missionary Society, and made several journeys through New York State in the latter years of the eighteenth and early years of the nineteenth century. On his father's side he was descended from Christopher Avery who with his son James, reached Salem on the ship Arabella, ten years after the coming of the Mayflower. Both father and son were men of distinction in the colony; it was the latter who in 1656 built the house in Groton, Ct., known as "the Hive of the Averys," a quaint, roomy structure which sheltered eight generations of his descendants, It was burned in 1894, and subsequently the site was deeded to the Avery Park Memorial Association, and there in 1900 a monument was dedicated to the old colonial Avery, who in his day was a judge, and second in military command under Governor Winthrop. The missionary Avery, whose journal is here printed, founded many churches, among them one in Bloomfield, Monroe County, which in 1899 celebrated its 100th anniversary.

Williston and Wood, returning from a mission of 15 weeks from the Hampshire Society attend with us an hour or so.

Thursday, 29. I set out early; it [was] soon rainy; when I came to Schermerhorn's Tavern it rained hard from 9 to 2, when it came only a mist. Rode to Albany, 20 miles, in the afternoon; in the whole, 27 miles.

Friday, 30. Rode to Bern 21 miles, visited two families. Saturday 31st. Visited three families; preached in the afternoon at a conference, and a prayer-meeting of the church.

Lord's Day September 1st. Preached three sermons to an attentive audience; one man 28 years of age said he had never heard but two sermons in his life before then. Three dollars were contributed.

Monday, 2d. Rode to Cobus-Kill. Made an appointment to preach the last Sabbath in my mission at Old Schohare.

Tuesday, 3d. Rode to Springfield, 30 miles.

Wednesday, 4th. Attended the funeral of a Mr. Brusler's daughter who moved last Spring from West Hampton. His son married a daughter of Mr. Charles Taylor, from Tyringham. After the funeral I rode.

Thursday, 5th. Rode to Paris. Called on Rev. Messrs. Steel and Horton, besides visiting seven families in my way. I arrived at Verona on Friday the 6th of the month.

At Verona I spent two Sabbaths and the days of the week between, only one day I went to Vernon, 12 miles. I was in the town eight days; I preached 8 times, visited 22 families, attended two conferences. There have been no new instances of awakening since July. About that time three Baptist ministers came into the place and zealously preached the necessity of going down into the water, and altho' they made no proselytes, yet it made some disputations for a short season, and seriousness ceased in the minds of many, then apparently awakened, and no new instances since, but there remain happy fruits of the awakening; 20 are added to the church, 5 more are propounded and several more contemplate coming forward soon.

Monday 16th. I set out for Batavia, in the County of Genesee. On Wednesday in the afternoon I reached Genevy [Geneva], where Mr. Chapman presides. A number of ministers and elders of churches were assembled in presbytery; Mr. Chapman was moderator and Mr. Chadwick scribe; Mr. Woodruff, Mr. Higgins, Mr. Jones, were members. Mr. Stewart, whom I saw at Homer on my last mission mentioned in that journal, now a licentiate, was present; a man well reported of. I attended with the Presbytery until Thursday 10 o'clock very agreeably, when I left them and arrived at Ganson's Settlement* 19 miles beyond the Genesee River on Saturday 21st.

Lord's Day, 22d. Preached twice in the day to a very decent assembly in a schoolhouse; they gave good attention. Appointed a conference in the evening at Esq. Bates's; it was rainy and but few came in.

Monday, 23d. Visited four families who appeared to be glad to be noticed by ministers, they are chiefly young families in this place, appear decent, but not one professor of religion. Judge Esau [?] Plat [Platt?] is an Episcopal professor, is a decent man, hospitable and kind; attended on the Sabbath with his family.

While I was having my horse's shoe set I was conducted to a strange monument in the woods, a poil [pile] of dirt as large as 20 cord coalpit; a tree has grown out of its top about 18 inches through; it has been dug in and human bones found in it, some of a very large length; the whole contents unknown.

I travelled from this place to Batavia in the afternoon, 12 miles to Landlord Row's, where a young woman lay a corpse, who had lived in the house, a maid by the name of Hayes, her mother was niece to old Mr. of Tyringham. Betsy Spring was here at work.

Tuesday, 24. Attended on the funeral at one o'clock and preached; a large number of people attended with solemnity. The night before an aged woman died by the name of Munger, a widow without children; her husband.

*Le Roy, N. Y.