John Sergeant missionary

John Sergeant (1710 – July 27, 1749) was an American missionary in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He helped establish a day school and laid the groundwork for a boarding school, before his early death. Sergeant was a graduate of Yale, who became an ordained Puritan minister. He was the first Puritan to live among the so-called "River Indians" (the term "River-Indians" in eighteenth century Massachusetts meant the Mohicans who came from the Colony of New York) He was ordained at Deerfield, on August 31, 1735, and moved to Stockbridge on March 25, 1736. He died in 1749, and was buried at Stockbridge in July 1749. He is buried in the Stockbridge Cemetery, in the town's center, with his wife and two sons, who were also Puritan missionaries, and his daughter, who was married to another Puritan, John Sergeant's son-in-law, William Sergeant, who died in 1801. He left behind a wife and four children, who are still living in the same town.