Moravians founded missions with Algonquian-speaking Mohicans in the colony of New York in the Thirteen Colonies. In one instance, they founded a mission in 1740 at the Mohican village of "Shekomeko" in present-day Dutchess County, New York. The converted Mohican people formed the first native Christian congregation in the present-day United States of America. Because of local hostility from New Yorkers to the Mohicans, the Moravian support of the Mohicans led to rumors of them being secret Jesuits, trying to ally the Mohicans with France in the ongoing French and Indian Wars.