[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] In 1735, the mission was definitely located on the W-nahk-ta-kook, or the Great Meadow, the great council chamber of the nation, where a township six miles square was laid out by the legislature as a reservation under the name of Stockbridge, by which name the Mahicans who were then located there, as well as those who subsequently removed thither, were known to the authorities of Massachusetts and New York.1 Following closely upon the establishment of the Stockbridge mission, the Moravians began their labors in the Mahican coun try. With a zeal remarkable for its voluntarily assumed sacri fices, and more pure than that which characterized the labors of other organizations, because without political interests to serve, they had pushed their way into the territory of the Creeks and 1 Stockbridge, Past and Present. Twenty in his labors, by a young Mahican, John miles distant, at a village called Kau-Wauwaumpequnnaunt, and met with so naumeeky David Brainerd, a licentiate muchsuccess thathewas enabled to induce acting under similar authority, esta-his people to remove to Stockbridge. Wished a mission in 1743. He was aided * OF HUDSON'S RIVER. 197