VALUABLE OLD DOCUMENT PRESENTED TO COLLEGE

The diary of the Reverend Thomas Kendall of the class of 1774, written in the years 1772 and 1773, and describing a missionary trip to the Caghnawaga Indian settlement in Canada, has been presented to Dartmouth College by his great grand-daughter, Mrs. Sarah W. Kendall Brown of Pittsfield, Mass.

In addition to being a work of considerable interest as an historical document, the diary is an interesting record of the author's life and experiences in Canada and with the Indians.

Thomas Kendall was born at Framingham, Mass., in 1745 and died at Lebanon, N. Y., in 1836. During the revolution he served as Chaplain of the Knox Artillery. In 1876 he was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church at Foxboro, Mass., where he served for fourteen years, going from that place to the Congregational Church at Kingston, Rhode Island, in 1800.

He remained at Kingston eighteen years, then moved to Sutton, Mass., and later to Lebanon, N. Y. His trip to Canada was typical of the missionary work among the Indians that Dartmouth students, under Eleazar Wheelock, carried on during the early years of the College, and which brought many Indian students to the College.