About the middle of March, 1743, Brainerd proceeded again to New York. On the 15th of that month, he waited on the correspondents at that city ; and, the week following, attended their meeting at Woodbridge, in New Jersey. Here he received his final directions.

His first destination had been to the Indians living near the Forks of the Delaware and on the Susquehannah; but this design was relinquished. The correspondents had learned that some contention subsisted between the white people and the Delaware Indians, concerning their lands ; and apprehended that this would hinder, for the present, the reception and success of a missionary. They had, on the other hand, received some intimations from the Rev. Mr. Sergeant, missionary to the Indians at Stockbridge, that there was the most hopeful prospect of success for a missionary among the Indians of Kaunaumeek.

This place was situated about twenty miles east of the city of Albany. Here Brainerd was appointed to labour; and was immediately dismissed by the correspondents, to attempt the instruction of these Indians. He arrived among them April 1, 1743, and continued his labours till April 6, 1744, when he was directed by the correspondents, as we shall hereafter see, to proceed to his original destination on the Delaware. His account of his situation, addressed, after he had left Kaunaumeek, to the Rev. Ebenezer Pemberton, is not a little melancholy.