![]() George Edward Bomberry, who was a hereditary chief of the Cayuga (Gayogohó:nợ), was born on the Tuscarora Reserve on April 14th, 1849 and was enrolled in the Institute by, at least, 1859 when the Report from the Principal (2) notes that he was 9 years old and was learning “ciphers and simple proportion”. At first the curriculum was confined to reading the Bible, writingĪnd arithmetic but, starting in the 1860s, the NEC began to support a few students who showed promise and wanted to attend Brantford Grammar School and some who went on for further training, usually at a teacher training college in Toronto or London (Ontario). Though it was called the Mohawk Institute, it accepted students from all of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee. ![]() The Institute was fully funded by the NEC until 1891. ![]() A day school was opened first and then, by 1834, a boarding school, the Mohawk Institute, was opened to educate Indigenous children. The late 1820s John Brant (the son of Joseph Brant and the government appointed, superintendent for the Six Nations of the Grand River) asked the NEC to establish schools for the Six Nations near what is now Brantford, Ontario. Accordingly it transferred its operations to the remaining Loyalist Colonies in North America and during In 1786, following the American Revolution, the NEC was advised that it was unable, safely and legally, to “exercise the Trusts of its Charter in any part of America which is out of the King’s Dominions”. Jesus Christ in New England” which created a corporation (which still exists), “The PresidentĪnd Society for propagation of the Gospel in New England”, commonly called The New England In July 1649, the English parliament passed an “Act for the promoting and propagating the Gospel of McGill University Archives, RG7 Container 122 Transcript 664. George Edward Bomberry, student record, 1875.
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