ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES. 



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Cothren (William). History [ of | an- 

 cient Woodbury, I Connecticut, | from | 

 the first Indian deed in 1659 to 1854, | 

 including the | Present Towns of Wash- 

 ington, Southbury, Bethlem, Roxbury, | 

 and apart of Oxford and Middlebury. | 

 By William Cothren. | [Volume I-III.] 

 I [Quotation, eij?ht lines.] | 



Waterbury, Conn.: | published by 

 Bronson Brothers. | 1854 [-1879J. 



3 vols. 8°. Volumes 2 and 3 have title-pages 

 differing slightly from above. The pagination 

 of vols. 1 and 2 is continuous. 



List of principal Pootatuoks, vol. 1, pp. 94- 

 96.— Xames of places with, signification, vol. 2, 

 p. 877. 



Copies seen: Astor, Congress, Trumbull, 

 "Watkinson. 



Cotton (Josiah). Vocabulary of the 

 Massachusetts (or NaLick) Indian lan- 

 guage. By Josiah Cotton. [Edited by 

 John Pickering.] 



In Massachusetts Hist. Soc. Coll. third series, 

 vol. 2, pp. 147-257, Cambridge, 1830, 8°. 



Advertisement signed "J. D." (i. e. John 

 Davis), pp. 147-148. — Notice of the manuscript, 

 with remarks on the author's orthography and 

 the pronunciation of the language, signed J. 

 P. (John Pickering), pp. 148-151.— Table of 

 contents (by the editor), p. 153. — Yocabulary, 

 pp. 155-243.— Appendix, pp. 244-257. 



The words of the vocabulary are grouped or 

 classified, having such headings as "Of arts," 

 "Of beasts," "Of rational Creatures," &c. ; 

 "Adjectives," "Verbs," "Imperative mood," 

 "Participles," "The creed," "A talk between 

 two," "Adverbs," "Pronouns," "Sentences," 

 and "A dialogue"; it also contains a letter, 

 the Natick version being signed Jno. Nemumin. 



The Appendix contains "Examples from the 

 Indian primer" of 1720, words of from one to 

 fifteen syllables; two versions of the Lord'a 

 prayer from Eliot's bible, and two from the 

 Indian primer; the ten commandments, from 

 the primer; "A sermon preached by Josiah 

 Cotton to the Massachusetts Indians in 1710 " ; 

 and "Extracts fr.om a sermon in English and 

 Indian, the English part being in the hand- 

 writing of Josiah Cotton, and the Indian in 

 that of his father, John Cotton." 



" The following vocabulary of the Indian lan- 

 guage, in the Natick or Massachusetts dialect, 

 is faithfully copied from a manuscript compiled 

 by the Hon. Josiah Cotton, a respectable inhab- 

 itant of Plymouth, who died in 1756, aged 77. 

 He was the second son of the Rev. John Cotton, 

 pastor of the first church in that ancient town 

 twenty-eight years, from 1669 to 1697. 



"Josiah Cotton was graduated at Harvard 

 College in 1698. His early years, after his 

 leaving college, were spent in Marblehead, 



Cotton (J.) — Continued. 



where be was employed as a schoolmaster ; his 

 studies in the mean time were principally in 

 theology. He was never settled, however, in 

 the ministry ; but, returning to his native town 

 early in the last century, after some years of 

 occupation in that place as a schoolmaster, he 

 devoted himself to agricultural pursuits and 

 to the discharge of several civil offices which 

 he sustained. The offices which ho held suc- 

 cessively or in conjunction were those of clerk 

 of the court of common pleas, justice of the 

 same court, register of probate, and register of 

 deeds. In the latter office he was succeeded 

 by his son, John Cotton, who was succeeded by 

 his son, Eossiter Cotton, the present worthy 

 occupant of that office, to whose kindness this 

 society and the friends of ancient lore are in- 

 debted for a communication of this manuscript, 

 and of other documents eminently useful and 

 acceptable for the elucidation of our early 

 history. This respectable family derives its 

 origin from the celebrated John Cotton of 

 Boston. Josiah Cotton, as well as his father, 

 in addition to their other employments, per- 

 formed the duties of missionaries to the Indians 

 at Plymouth and other places in that vicinity. 

 The father was eminently skilled in the Indian 

 language, of which there are many testimo- 

 nials ; the most conspicuous is Eliot's Indian 

 Bible. In the accomplishment of that labori- 

 ous work Mr. Eliot acknowledges his obliga- 

 tions to Mr. Cotton, especially in the prepara- 

 tion of the second edition. 



"Josiah Cotton, besides the advantages of 

 much personal intercourse with the Indians, 

 had the benefit of his father's information; 

 and his long continuance as a religious in- 

 structor to the natives, with the ready use of 

 their language, of which he left numerous 

 specimens in writing, may reasonably induce a 

 reliance on the correctness of the present vocab- 

 ulary which he compiled. A copy of some of 

 his other specimens will be found subjoined to 

 the vocabulary." — Advertisement. 



The above vocabulary, though written, ac. 

 cording to the statement of the editor, in 

 1707-'8, was printed here for the first time. 



Issued separately also, with title-page as 

 follows : 



Vocabulary | of the | Massachusetts 



(or Natick) | Indian language. | By 

 Josiah Cotton. | 



Cambridge: | printed by E. W. Met- 

 calf and company. | 1829. 



Title verso blank 1 1. advertisement pp. 3-4, 

 notice of the manuscript pp. 4-7, contents p. 9, 

 vocabulary pp. 11-99, appendix pp. 100-112, 8°. 



Some copies with this title retain the original 

 pagination, 147-257. 



Copies seen : Congress, Dunbar, Eames, Mas- 

 sachusetts Historical Society, Powell. 



At the Brinley sale, catalogue no. 5689, a copy 

 brought $2. 



