IROQUOIAN LANGUAGES 



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Andrews (^y.), Barclay (H.),an(l Ogil- 

 vie (J.) — CoutiniKJcl. 



■'Two years later, Mr. Weynnin wrote tliat 

 'the Indian Com moil Prayer- Book still lies dead.' 

 He suggested that Kev. Mr. Ogilvie, tlien of 

 Trinity Charcli, New York, and late mission- 

 ary to the Mohawks, might undertake its cor- 

 rection, if Jolinson doubted his 'sticking close 

 to a legible copy.' His own death, in 1768, 

 caused further delay, and Hugh Gaiue finished 

 the work eaily in 17G9. The little volume of 

 204 pages had been only .six years in course of 

 publication. On the title-page it is said to liave 

 been prepared under direction of Eev. Messrs. 

 Andrews, Barclay, and Ogilvie, formerls' inis- 

 sio!iaries to the Mohawks."— JB('««c/i«wp. 



Copies seen .• Brinley, Lenox. 



At the Brinley sale, No. 5703, a '"tine, clean, 

 sheep, gilt copy," brought $75, and at the Mur- 

 phy sale, a copy, No. 1699, sold for $21. 

 Animal names, Seneca. See Morgan (L. H.). 

 Another Tongue brought in, to Confess 

 I tbe Great Saviour of the World. | Or, 

 I Some commuuications | of | Christi- 

 jiuity, I Put into a Tongue used among 

 the I Iroquois Indians, | in America. | 

 And, Put into the Hands of tbe English 

 I and the Duteh Traders: | To accommo- 

 date tbe Great Intention of | Communi- 

 cating the Christian I religion, unto tbe 

 salvages, | among whom tliey may find 

 any thing | of this Language to be In- 

 telligible. I Ezeli. Ill fi I [&.c. three 

 lines.] I 



Boston: Printed 1)\' B. Green. | 1707. 



Pp. 1-16, 16^. Questions and answers in Iro- 

 quois, Latin, English, and Dutch. See fac- 

 simile of title-page, p. 6. The only perfect copies 

 known of this work are those in the British 

 Miiseiiin, the Lenox Liljrary. and the Carter 

 Brown Library. It is named in the list of Cot- 

 ton Mather's publications which is appended 

 to his biography by Samuel Mather. 



Copies sern: British Museum. Brown. 



" Why this, the first book in the language of 

 the Five Nations, was printed at Boston in- 

 stead of New Toik — or by whom the transla- 

 tion was made — Mather does not inform us. It 

 may, with much liiobability, lie conjectured 

 that the coi)y was furnished by the Kev. 

 Thorowgood Moor, who was sent out by the 

 Society for the Projiagation of the Gospel, in 

 1704, to labor for the conversion of the Mo- 

 hawks. He remained nearly a year at Albany, 

 and visited the Mohawks at their ' Castle,' hut 

 could not obtain their consent to his establish- 

 ment of a mission among them. Before No- 

 vember. 1705, he n^turned to New York, and 

 shortly afterwards went to Burlington, N. .!., 

 to supply the place of the Itev. John Talhot 

 (another missionary of the Society) . Hero Mr. 

 Moor gave otfenco by refusing to admit the 

 LicutonMiif-<'iov<'nior (Ingoldshy) to the Lord's 

 sui)[ier, aii'l was punished by impiisoniiient. 

 II i\ iiuc itiM-ivi^d ti> IMC ip\ 1k' lie I 1,1 B.istun 



Another Tongue, etc. — Continued. 



and in November, 1707, took passage for Eng- 

 land, from Marblehead. The vessel, with all on 

 board, was lost at sea (O'Callaghan's Note, in 

 N.Y. Documents, iv, 1077). Mr. Talhot on his 

 return from England had met Mr. Moor in 

 Boston and tried to induce him to go back to 

 New York, but 'poor Thorowgood said he had 

 rather be taken into France than into the fort 

 at New York.' 



" While at Albany, Mr. Moor must have had 

 opportunity to learn something of the Mohawk 

 language fiora Laurence Claesse, the provin- 

 cial interpreter, who had been a prisoner among 

 the Ii'0(iuois, 'and understood tlieir language 

 sufficiently,' and from the Rev. Bernardua Free- 

 man, minister of the Dutch Ileformed Church 

 at Schenectady, who ' had been employed by 

 the Earl of Bellamont in the year 1700, to con- 

 vert the Indians,' and 'had a good knowledge 

 of the dialect of the Mohawks' (Humphrey's 

 Hist. Account, 299, 302). When the Rev. Will- 

 iam Andrews began his mission work among 

 the Five Nations in 1710, Mr. Claesse served as 

 his interpreter; and Mr. Freeman (whomean- 

 while had removed to Brooklyn) gave the So- 

 ciety copies of the translations he had made of 

 theEngli-sh liturgy and select portions of Script- 

 ure — from which a Moliawk prayer-book was 

 printed at New York (Id., 299, 302). This " very 

 worthy Calvinist minister' (as Humphreys 

 charactei'izes him) may have previously given 

 Mr. Moor a copy of — or assisted him to trans- 

 late— this little manual. Mather would be glad 

 to promote its publication, and not disinclined 

 to receive whatever credit ho wa.s entitled to 

 for the work. And as Moor, while in Boston 

 in 1707, was a fugitive from Lord Cornbury's 

 jurisdiction, tliero was reason enough — the re- 

 lation of Massachusetts to New York, consid- 

 ered — for omitting to mention the author's 

 name on the title-page or in connection with 

 the wov]!.." - -Tnniibull. 



Antrim (Beuajali J.), Pantography. | 

 (U" I universal drawings, | in the coiii- 

 parisou of their natural aiul arititrary 

 laws, I %vitb tlie nature and importance 

 of I Pasigraphy, | as | tlio si'ieiice of 

 letters; | bi-ing particularly adapted to 

 the ortboepic accuracy | re(iuisite in in- 

 ternational co'-respondences, and | tbe 

 study of foreign languages. ] With 

 Specimens of more than Fifty Dilfcrent 

 Alpliabots, including a concise descrip- 

 tion I of almost all otliers iuiown gen- 

 erally throughout tbe World. | [De- 

 sign.] I By Beuajah J. Antrim. | 



Philadelphia: | Published by tbe au- 

 thor, and for sale by | Tliomas, Cow- 

 pertbwait & Co. | 1H4:5 



Pp. i-vi, 7-16-', 12^.— Cherokee alphabet, with 

 explanation of .sounds. i)p. 'Oi-lOl. 



Copies seen : A si or. Con ^i ess. 



I'rii'eil b .■ Triiliner, 18.'..'), No. 50;!, 5*'. M. 



