As soon as the tribes
were converted they perceived the evils attendant on their former state
of ignorance and vagrancy. They began to work, which they had never done
before; they recognised the advantage of cultivating the soil; they gave
up drinking, to which they had been greatly addicted, and became sober,
consistent, industrious Christians.
J. Sawyer, P. Jones, Chiefs; J. Jones, War-chief.
The _Chippewas of Alnwick_ were converted in 1826-7 They were wandering
pagans, in the neighbourhood of Belleville, Kingston, and Gannoyne,
commonly known as Mississagas of the Bay of Quinte; they resided on Grape
Island, in the Bay of Quinte, six miles from Belleville. They resided
eleven years on the island, subsisting by hunting and agriculture. Their
houses were erected partly by their own labour and by the Wesleyan
Missionary funds; these consist of twenty-three houses, a commodious chapel
and school, an infant school, hospital, smithy, shoemaker's shop and
joiner's. There are upwards of 300 of these Indians.
The chiefs are--Sunday; Simpson; G.
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