Jerusha Bingham Kirkland

Jerusha Bingham Kirkland (October 15, 1743 – January 23, 1788) was a prominent colonial American pioneer in the missionary cause. During the years of her residence and labors among the Oneida people, where she and her husband, Rev. Dr. Samuel Kirkland, brought about many conversions to Christianity, Mrs. Kirkland was noted for her kind deeds as a nurse and medical benefactor to the Native Americans. Both she and her husband gained a wide influence among the indigenous people of the region, many of whom they were afterwards and during the American Revolutionary War, able to win over to the colonialist cause. Her parents were Joseph Bingham of Windham, and Sarah Wheelock, (Young (1840) attempts to furnish a record of John Thornton Kirkland's descent from Miles Standish, by stating, in part, that Jerusha Bingham was the daughter of Mary Wheelock, whose mother's name was Mercy Standish.) This is rebuked by Weaver (1860). She prayed for them in the Oneida language.

Personal life In the midst of her missionary labors, When John achieved national prominence as president of Harvard College,

Jerusha Bingham Kirkland died in Clinton, Oneida County, New York, January 23, 1788.