wards' Last Will, and Inventory of His Estate,'' taken from Bibliotheca Sacra 33 (1876): 438–
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Sarah Cabot Sedgwick and Christina Sedgwick Marquand, Stockbridge, 1739–1974 (Stockbridge, Mass.: Berkshire Traveller Press, 1974), 39, 69–70.
37. Edwards to Secretary Josiah Willard, May 22, 1754, Works, 16: 644–45. The account of the incident is based on Edwards' letter and on the account in Frazier, Mohicans of Stockbridge, 105–6, which is the most complete based on multiple sources. Cf. Wright, Colonel Ephraim Williams, 74–75.
38. For a critical comparison of French and English missions, see James Axtell, The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985).
39. Milton W. Hamilton, Sir William Johnson: Colonial American, 1715–1763 (Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1976), Wright, Colonel Ephraim Williams, 74–75; Fred Anderson, Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754–1766 (New York: Knopf, 2000), 78–79. Frazier, Mohicans of Stockbridge, 103– 4, says Hendrick sent a note of warning to Woodbridge after the incident. Hendrick did remain friends with Ephraim Williams Jr., who (although another Susquehanna investor) had been his patron and soon would be a close military ally. Wright, Colonel Ephraim Williams, 71–72.
Concerning the Pennsylvania side of the story and especially the role of mediators such as Conrad Weiser, see James H. Merrell, Into the American Woods: Negotiations on the Pennsylvania Frontier (New York: Norton, 1999), which provides a fascinating and illuminating account.
40. Frazier, Mohicans of Stockbridge, 83–84, and passim. 41. Edwards had a small investment in the Susquehanna Company, ''Jonathan Edwards' Last Will, and Inventory of His Estate,'' taken from Bibliotheca Sacra 33 (1876): 438– 46; the original is at Hampshire County Courthouse, Northampton. At the time of the inventory, July 25, 1759, his interest was listed as £2 14s., which can be compared to the £30 value of his best five acres, between his house in Stockbridge and the river. Most of Edwards' landholdings seems to have been for his own use. Presumably Edwards, who had only Woodbridge's side of the story, thought the Susquehanna deal honest.
42. Anderson, Crucible of War, 50–85. 43. Edwards to John Erskine, April 15, 1755, Works, 16: 662–63. Only during September was Edwards able to perform his full duties, preaching five sermons to the Indians and five to the English that month. Otherwise he preached none between late July and late November and not at all in January or February. Rachel Wheeler, ''Living upon Hope: Mahicans and Missionaries, 1730–1760'' (Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1998), 162, lists the number of sermons to the Indians preached by months. The list of sermons to the English is provided by the Works of Jonathan Edwards and seems to confirm a similar pattern.
44. This account follows closely that of Frazier, Mohicans of Stockbridge, 107–9, who quotes, p. 107, the letter from Samuel Hopkins to Joseph Bellamy, September 3, 1754. Also Sedgwick and Marquand, Stockbridge, 73–75, for some detail. Also Edwards to Erskine, April 15, 1755, Works, 16: 663–64.
45. Hopkins to Bellamy, September 3, 1754, quoted in Frazier, Mohicans of Stockbridge, 109. 46. Edwards petition . . . October 22, 1754; in another hand but signed by Edwards. MA, 13: 581–82. Photocopy furnished by George Claghorn. Quotations are also found in