Leading business men of Marlboro, Hudson, SoFramingham, Natick, and vicinity; embracing also Saxonville and Cochituate . at was afterwardsto be known as Natick. The influence he had gained over the Indians is evidenced by what he writesconcerning the first action taken to improve the territory : When the grass wasfit to cut, I sent some Indians to mow, and others to make hay, because we must oft 60 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF NATICK. ride hither in the autumn, and in the spring before any grass is come, and there isprovision for our horses. Their work was performed well, as I found when I wentup to t
Leading business men of Marlboro, Hudson, SoFramingham, Natick, and vicinity; embracing also Saxonville and Cochituate . at was afterwardsto be known as Natick. The influence he had gained over the Indians is evidenced by what he writesconcerning the first action taken to improve the territory : When the grass wasfit to cut, I sent some Indians to mow, and others to make hay, because we must oft 60 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF NATICK. ride hither in the autumn, and in the spring before any grass is come, and there isprovision for our horses. Their work was performed well, as I found when I wentup to them with my man to order it. The natural and acquired distaste and disdain of the Indian warrior for physicallabor, aside from that connected with war and hunting, has often been cited to showwhy permanent Indian civilization is impossible, but Eliot could induce his conveits-to work, even when they were not under his supervision, and the entire history ofhis labors with the Indians furnishes an unanswerable argument in favor of theircapacity to become good citizens if properly treated and intelligently Clarks Block, West Sii>e Maijj Street, Natiok. One of the first public works carried out at the new settlement was the building ofa foot-bridge, eighty feet in length, across the Charles River, and a few houses alsowere built, but wigwams were generally preferred to these, they being warmer andfar more portable. A large fort was soon constructed, and in 1651 a frame-buildingmeasuring 50 x 25 feet was erected, the lower story being used for church andschool purposes, and the upper floor for the storage of furs and other frames and boarding were all sawed out by the Indians, the help of an Englishcarpenter being given at the raising only. October 8, 1651 was signalized by a visitfrom Governor Endicott and other prominent men, and a sermon was preached byone of the Indians and another by Eliot. All the converts joined in singing a psalm,and according t
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