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Dec 01, 1741 Norwich, Connecticut, United States Died on 28 Feb 1808 (aged 66)
American missionary
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About Samuel Kirkland
- Samuel Kirkland (December 1, 1741 – February 28, 1808) was a Presbyterian minister and missionary among the Oneida and Tuscarora peoples of present-day central New York State. Kirkland graduated from Princeton in 1765.
- In 1793 as part of his missionary work with the Oneida tribe he founded a seminary, the Hamilton-Oneida Academy in Clinton, New York.
- The seminary admitted both white and Oneida boys.
- Kirkland named it in honor of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, who was a member of the first Board of Trustees of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy.
- The Hamilton-Oneida Academy was chartered as Hamilton College in 1812 (Hamilton College).
- A student of the Iroquoian languages, Kirkland lived for many years with the Iroquois tribes.
- He helped negotiate the land purchases that New York State made from the Iroquois after the American Revolutionary War, acquiring his own land in the process.
