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The New England Company, the Royal Society and the Indians

The story of the evangelization of the Indians in seventeenth-century New England has been well told.' But there is one aspect of the subject that has been overlooked, and that is the attempt during the 1660s and 1670s to use the natural philosophy sponsored by the recently founded Royal Society of London as an instrument in the process of civilizing and Christianizing the Indians. In February 1662, the New England Company was incorporated by the crown to carry out the evangelizing mission, and at the same time Robert Boyle was appointed Governor of the Company. Boyle of course was also one of the principal founders of the Royal Society. Nor was he the only Fellow who took a lively interest in the work of the Company. John Winthrop, Jr., John Beale and Henry Oldenburg, the