Reverend William Walker quotes Reverend Richard Watson from Walter Lawry, Secretary of Wesleyan Mission Society: “at the Cowpastures the Blacks have been fighting, a few were killed, several disastrously wounded. …The Blacks sent (evidence) to the governor by the hands of Major Ovens, …traversing the woods in their tribes living in a kind of domesticated manner. … We must use our utmost endeavors to select the most promising youth from the tribes …and keep them under a course of tuition and religious instruction”. (Bonwick Transcripts 52 folio 224)