the war, many of the originally praying towns which were allotted were never reestablished, however some praying towns remained. Living descendants in...

whom had become Praying Indians confined to praying towns, remained neutral during the war but suffered heavy casualties. The Praying Indians were attacked...

Oneidas. The Praying Indians never saw such a split. They had extremely close ties to both the Puritan clergy that established the Praying towns, as well...

The Praying Indians of Natick were a community of Indigenous Christian converts, known as Praying Indians, in the town of Natick, Massachusetts, one of...

new Praying towns being established nearby. They returned in 1674, to officially recognize the Praying town with Joseph as its teacher. The new town did...

the colonists. The Praying Indians were particularly at risk, as the war made all Native Americans suspect, but the Praying towns were also attacked by...

people lived in Manchaug, however residents fled the town during King Phillip's War when praying towns were targeted by both colonial and Wampanoag war parties:...

Massachusett language Praying Indians of Natick, 17th-century Native American Christian converts who settled in the Natick Praying Town Natick, Nebraska East...

losses. Individual towns and regions had differing expectations for Indian conversions. In most of Eliot's mainland praying towns, religious converts...

acceptance. This is attested in the numerous court petitions, church records, praying town administrative records, notes on book margins, personal letters, and...

Punkapoag, Ponkhapoag or Punkapog, is the name of a Native American "praying town" settled in the late 17th century western Blue Hills area of eastern...

the Southern Mantis style is unrelated to the Northern Praying Mantis style. Southern Praying Mantis places a heavy emphasis on close-range fighting....

uprising of the Wampanoag sachem Metacomet. The Praying Indians, the inhabitants of the Praying towns such as Nashoba, were rounded up by English colonial...

Wamesit was a praying town in 1600s Massachusetts Bay Colony situated at the juncture of the Concord River and Merrimack River, in present day downtown...

created seven "praying towns. The present day Hassanamisco Reservation located in Grafton, Massachusetts, was briefly a praying town in 1728 when it...

different tribes. Among the incidents it depicts is the eradication of Praying Town Indians in the colonial period, despite their recent conversion to Christianity...

abominable witchcrafts which have been committed in the country, humbly praying, that the discovery of those mysterious and mischievous wickednesses may...

so-called "praying Indians" (or Moravian Indians), descended from Christianized members of two distinct groups: Mohican and Wappinger from the praying town of...

John Eliot, a Puritan missionary to the Native Americans, established "praying towns", where Native Americans took up Christianity and were expected to renounce...

governor appointed by Parliament in January, refused to let Charles enter the town, and when Charles returned with more men later, Hotham drove them off. Charles...

in to Praying Towns, a precursor to modern day Indian reservations. The modern town of Canton was the site of Ponkapoag, the second Praying Town in the...

(transl.  "place of great trees") was one of the Christian indigenous praying towns established by the missionary John Eliot near the Massachusetts Bay...

The Praying Indians of Natick and Ponkapoag is a cultural heritage group that claims descendancy from Praying Indians in Massachusetts, including the...

granted, the Mashpees now governed themselves via the law of ‘praying towns’. Praying Town status afforded tribes protection of the English Crown and a...

nonbelligerent Praying Indians, some of them originally Naumkeag, were interned on Deer Island but only 167 survived to return to Praying Towns. After 8 years...

located among the Manomet Ponds (the later site of the Manomet Ponds Praying Town). Manomet has a Post Office in the business district whose ZIP code is...

Siobhan Senier. Selections include letters from leader of the early praying town, Wamesit in Massachusetts Samuel Numphow,[clarification needed] Sagamore...

translator, minister, land proprietor, and Praying Indian affiliated for a period with John Eliot in the praying town of Natick, Massachusetts. Peter Jethro...

way of life. In 1651, Eliot established Natick as the first praying town. Praying towns were reserved for Native Americans who had converted to Christianity...

colonial laws. In 1647, the government required all towns with 50 or more households to hire a teacher and towns of 100 or more households to hire a grammar school...