Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . ofthe Stockbridge Indiansat an annual charge offive hundred pounds. TheRev. Dr. Watts sent toSergeant se\enty pounds,collected from among- hisfriends, and also a copy ofhis treatise on The Im-provement of the Mind,a little volume which is acherished memorialamong the descendantsof Sergeant to the pres-ent day. Among other su|)porters of Sergeant were the Princeof AA^ales, the Duke of Cumberland, the Duke of Dorset, Lord Cower,and others. iMancis Ayscough, clerk of the closet and first cha
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . ofthe Stockbridge Indiansat an annual charge offive hundred pounds. TheRev. Dr. Watts sent toSergeant se\enty pounds,collected from among- hisfriends, and also a copy ofhis treatise on The Im-provement of the Mind,a little volume which is acherished memorialamong the descendantsof Sergeant to the pres-ent day. Among other su|)porters of Sergeant were the Princeof AA^ales, the Duke of Cumberland, the Duke of Dorset, Lord Cower,and others. iMancis Ayscough, clerk of the closet and first chaplain tothe Prince of Wales, sent to Sergeant a copy of the Holy Scriptures, intwo large folio \(flumes, embellished with engravings, in which wasinscribed : Presented by Dr. Ayscough to Rev. John Sergeant, mis-. Stockbridge iMonument. BERKSHIRE COUNTY 25 sionary to the Stockliridge Tndi:ins, in the vast wilderness called XewEngland. Sergeant found greater obstacles to contend against than the pa-ganism of the Indians, in the lawlessness and imnioralitv of many ofthe white settlers. Rum was a principal agency of the white traders,but happily the influence of the missi(,nary was so commanding and thegood sense and moral ])rinci]ile of many of the red men so strong thata barrier was reared against this demoralizing traflic. A year afterSergeant had begun his labors, the Indians formally agreed to haveno trading in rum. The General Court further protected them bythe enactment of a law (antedating the Maine liquor law by more thana century) making the sale of strong drink to an Indian a criminal of-fense. The traders endeavored to influence the Indians against thispolicy by the same arguments used in opposition to present-day prohibi-tion, urging that the inhi1)ition was depri\ation ci their perso
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