Samuel Kirkland

Samuel Kirkland (born December 1, 1741, died February 28, 1808) is a Presbyterian minister and missionary among the Oneida and Tuscarora peoples of present-day western New York State.

Kirkland graduates from Princeton in 1765.

In 1793, he founds the Hamilton-Oneida Academy (later Hamilton College) as a boys' school in central New York.

A student of the Iroquoian languages, Kirkland lives for many years with the Iroquois tribes.

He helps negotiate the land purchases that New York State makes from the Iroquois after the American Revolutionary War, acquiring his own land in the process.

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