 Included in the grant were provisions that the minister and schoolteacher receive land grants, and that four English families settle the area, in part to set an example of Christian living for the natives.John Sergeant built a modest frontier house in the township, and the Indian village grew around this area, which included a meeting house used as a church and school.In 1739 Sergeant married Abigail Williams, the seventeen-year-old daughter of one of Stockbridge's English settlers.