ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES. 



165 



Uliot (J.) — Continued. 



that it was purchased by him in Loudon for 

 $6. It was afterwards presented by him to the 

 Long Island Historical Society. Information 

 furnished by Miss Jessie E. Prentice, in letters 

 of December 13th and 26th, 1889. 



(39) A copy advertised for sale by Maison- 

 neuveet cie., of Paris, in 1878. It is described 

 in Charles Leclerc's Bibliotheca Americana 

 (Paris, 1878), no. 2367, as lacking sheets Aaa to 

 Zzz, inclusive, which comprise 92 leaves or 

 from 2d Kings x. 2i to Psalm Ixxix. 13. The j 

 price was 1500 francs. This is without doubt [ 

 the same copy that was advertised for sale by 

 Bernard Quaritch in March and April, 1870 

 (259 Catalogue, no. 278), and again in July, 

 1870 (260 Catalogue, no. 1172), at 501. It was 

 there described as "wanting aaa to zzz in the 

 Old Testament, otherwise quite perfect, with 

 the titles, calf." 



(40) Library of the Massachusetts Historical 

 Society, Boston, Mass. In half leather bind- 

 ing, lacking the general title, the last six 

 leaves of the metrical psalms, or all after 

 Psalm cxxv. 4 (Xx2), and the final leaf of 

 rules. At the beginning of the volume is in- 

 serted the original dedication to the Hon. Kob- 

 «rt Boyle, printed on a single leaf, on the verso 

 of which is written: " Samuel Danforth's 

 book. Cost for binding, 3^\" This leaf, 

 which appears to have been taken out of an- 

 other copy of the bible, was found separate 

 among the miscellaneous papers in the library 

 of the Society, ' about the year 1855 or 1856. 

 The writer of the inscription was probably the 

 second Samuel Danforth {horn 1666, died 1727), 

 minister of the Congregational church in Taun- 

 ton, and the author of a dictionary of the 

 Indian language, compiled from the Indian 

 bible. Mr. Barllett mentions this copy in his 

 list, printed in the Historical Magazine (Sep- 

 tember, 1858), vol. 2, p. 277. See the Catalogue 

 of the Library of the Massachusetts Historical 

 Society (Boston, 1859), vol. 1, pp. 127, 128, 414, 

 from which it appears that the old testament is 



"Imperfect, wanting title and first signature." 

 ^ee also the Proceedings of the Massachusetts 

 Historical Society for 1860-62, pp. 378, 379. In- 

 formation furnished by Dr. Samuel A. Green, 

 in letter of January 15th, 1890. 



(41) Library of the Morse Institute, Natick, 

 Mass. A good copy, "inclosed in a casket 

 made from the large oak tree under which the 

 apostle first gathered his dusky audience." 

 See the American Bibliopolist for February, 

 1870. The bible was once owned by the Hon. 

 John Pickering, the philologist (born 1777, died 

 1846), and at the sale of his library in Boston, 

 September, 1846 (no. 803), was bought by Mr. O. 

 Thayer for the town of Natick, according to a 

 memorandum in the book. Dr. Trumbull, 

 however, states in the Brinley catalogue that it 

 -was bought by Mr. Brinley. A tea party was 

 given at Natick on the 28th of October of the 

 «ame year, in order to raise money for the pur- 

 ■chase of this copy, to be preserved in the ar- 



Eliot (J.) — Continued. 



chives of the town. A circular was also 

 printed, containing Psalm C in the Natick dia- 

 lect, with the English translation and the tune. 

 In Bacon's History of Natick the following ac- 

 count is given : "Some public-spirited individ- 

 uals purchased this copy from the library of 

 Hon. John Pickering; and the ceremony of its 

 presentation to the town took place in the Town 

 Hall on the two hundredth anniversary of 

 Eliot's first visit to the Indians at Nbnantum, 

 October 28, 1846, the nominal, not the actual 

 day." See S. A. Drake's History of Middlesex 

 County, Mass. (Boston, 1880), vol. 2, pp. 200, 201. 

 Information furnished by the librari m. Miss 

 Nellie L. Fox, in letters of January 28Lh and 

 30th, 1890. 



(42) Library of the New York Historical 

 Society, New York. In modern half leather 

 binding. It was formerly owned by the Rev. 

 Thomas Bradbury Chandler, the rector of St. 

 John's Church, Elizabethtown (born 1726,-died 

 1790), whose name, " T. B. Chandler, " is writ- 

 ten at the top of the general title and crossed 

 through with a pen. On the same page is the 

 autograph of " JohnPintard 1807," the founder 

 of the New York Historical Society (born 1759, 

 died 1814), who presented the book to the so- 

 ciety. 



(43) New York State Library, Albany, N. T. 

 An imperfect copy, in modern binding, lacking 

 the general title, the first seven leaves of Gen- 

 esis or all before chap, xviii 7 (B4), and the 

 whole of the new testament and metrical 

 psalms. On one of the blank leaves is written: 

 "Purchased at Gurley and Hill's auction sale, 

 New York, Feb. 24. 1846." See the Catalogue of 

 the New York State Library (Albany, 1850>. p. 

 511; and the enlarged catalogue of the "Gen- 

 eral Library," 1855 (Albany, 1856), p. 85. In- 

 formation furnished by Mr. George E. Howell, 

 in letter of December 13th, 1889. 



(44) Library of the Historical Society of 

 Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. Bound in 

 levant black morocco, filleted and paneled aides, 

 by F.Bedford. Size of the leaf, 7iby 5| inches. 

 On the verso of the blank leaf preceding the 

 title is the autograph of a former owner, 

 "William Stoughton," chief-justice and lieu- 

 tenant-governor of Massachusetts (born 1632, 

 died 1701). On the same page is the autograph 

 of another owner, "John Danforth, 1713," who 

 married governor Stoughton's niece. He was 

 minister of the Congregational church in Dor- 

 chester from 1682 until his death in 17.30, aged 

 seventy years. It afterwards came into the 

 possession of Mr. George Brinley, of Hartford, 

 and is perhaps the copv referred to by Mr. 

 O'Callaghan in his A^nerican Bibles (Albany, 

 1861), p. 18. At the sale of the third portion of 

 Mr. Brinley's library, in New York, April, 1881 

 (no. 5683), the bible was purchased for $590 by 

 Mr. Charles R. Hildeburn, for the Historical 

 Society of Penn.sylvania. 



(45) Library Company of Philadelphia, Pa. 

 An imperfect copy, lacking the general title, 



