His first missionary task was working at Kaunameek, a Housatonic Indian settlement near present-day Nassau, New York, twenty or thirty miles from missionary John Sergeant who was working in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Jeho prvním úkolem bylo pracovat v Kaunameeku, s husatonickou indiánskou skupinou, poblíž dnešního města Nassau v New Yorku, 20 nebo 30 mil daleko od misionáře Johna Sergeanta, který pracoval v Stockbridge, stát Massachusetts.