Reverend Joseph Fish (1705-1781) from Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts, was for fifty years (from 1732-1781) pastor of the Congregational Church in North Stonington, Connecticut.
Professor Jones' article was first published in 1989 and later republished, including its quotations from Fish's diary in an online WordPress blog about mixed race studies.
[11][12] In the 1760s and early 1770s, Reverend Joseph Fish, as a "standing order minister" from Connecticut, traveled to the Narragansett Country in Rhode Island to preach to the Indians and told in his diary about the attitude of these Amerindians to miscegenation.
He continued, “Besides these there is a considerable Number of mixtures such as mulattos and mustees which the tribe Disowns.” Fish urged the Narragansett to make room for the “Molattos” who lived with them and “to behave peaceably and friendly towards them, allowing their Children benefit of the School, if there was Room and the Master Leisure from tending Schollars of their own Tribe.” Fish noted that although he rode from Connecticut specifically to teach the Indians, nevertheless the blacks, whites, and mixed bloods all attended his sermons.
According to the author of this paper, Fish recorded observations of "cross racial sexual liaisons, such as the case of a “Molatto” named George, who in 1774 was living with an Indian woman who had at one time been married to the “king” of the Narragansett.