ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES. 



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liliot (J. ) — Continued. 



ing to Mr. Philes, it was afterwards offered for 

 sale in London at a large price. The name of 

 the present owner has not been ascertained. 

 Information furnished by Mr. Lloyd, in letters 

 of December 19th and 31st, 1889. 



Further research will bring to light many 

 more copies of the Indian bible. In 1858, Mr. 

 John R. Bartlett prepared a list of 13 copies of 

 the first edition, and 14 copies of the second, 

 which was printed in the Historical Magazine 

 (September, 1858), vol. 2, p. 277. Mr. E. B.O'Cal- 

 laghan, in his American Bibles (Albany, 1861), 

 pp. 12, 18, mentioned 15 of the first edition, 19 

 of the second, and 2 of which the dates were 

 not ascertained. Mr. Thomas W. Field named 

 23 copies of the first edition in his Essay towards 

 an Indian Bibliography (New York, 1873), p. 

 120. The largest list hitherto published is that 

 in Mr. Xathaniel Paine's Brief Notice of the 

 Library of the American Antiquarian Society 

 (Worcester, 1873), pp. 54, 55, in which 26 copies 

 of the first edition are mentioned, and 28 of the 

 second. These four lists contain only copies 

 owned in the United States. 



. Psalm C. I To "be sung at the tea 



party given in the town-hall at Natick, 

 I October 28, 1846, | for the purpose of 

 raising means to purchase a copy of 

 Eliot's Indian Bible, | to be preserved 

 in the archives of the town. 



No title-page, heading only ; 1 p. folio. Ex- 

 tract from Eliot's translation of the psalms in- 

 to Indian metre, probably from the second edi- 

 tion of the bible, with the English version, and 

 the tune. 



Copies seen : Boston Athenaeum, Massachu- 

 setts Historical Society, Trumbull. 



[Wehkomaonganoo asquam peanto- 



gig Kah asquam Quinnuppegig, Toko- 

 nogque mahche woskeche Peantamwog. 

 Ouk woh samp wutteahae Peantamwog. 

 Wutanakausuonk wunueetou noh noh- 

 tompeantog. Ussowesu Mr. Richard 

 Baxter. Kah Yeuyeu qushkinnumun 

 en Indiane WuttinnontoDwaonganit. 

 "Wussohsumoowontamunat oowesuonk 

 God ut Christ Jesus ut, kahconeneheo- 

 nat Indiansog. Ezek. 33. 11. Qushkek, 

 qushkek, tohwhutch woh nuppok, woi 

 Israelle wek ? 



Cambridge : printed by Samuel Green 

 and Marmaduke Johnson. 1664.] (*) 



96 (?) leaves, signatures AjtoH intwelves(?). 

 The charge in the treasurer's account was for 

 eight sheets. 



Eichard Baxter's Call to the Unconverted was 

 first printed at London in 1657. This is Mr. 

 Eliot's translation of it into the Massachusetts 

 Indian language. The above title, excepting 

 the imprint, is copied from the reprint of 1688. 



Eliot (J.) — Continued. 



The records of the Commissioners show that 

 the book was printed by Marmaduke Johnson, 

 " with our owne printer," Samuel Green. 



On the 6tb of July (6th of the 5th), 1663, 

 Mr. Eliot wrote from Roxbury to Mr. Richard 

 Baxter in London, as follows: "My Work about 

 the Indian Bible being (by the good hand of the 

 Lord, though not without difficulties) finished, 

 I am meditating what to do next for these Sons 

 of this our Morning : they having no Books for 

 their private use, of ministerial composing, 

 . . . I have therefore purposed in my heart 

 (seeing the Lord is yet pleased to prolong my 

 life) to translate for them a little Book of yours, 

 intituled, {A Call to the Unconverted): The 

 keeness of the Edge, and liveliness of the Spirit 

 of that Book, through the blessing-of God, may 

 be of great use unto them. But seeing you are 

 yet in the Land of the Living, (and the good 

 Lord prolong your days) I would not presume 

 to do such a thing, without making mention 

 thereof unto your self, that so I might have 

 the help and blessing of your Counsel and 

 Prayers. I believe it will not be unacceptable 

 to you, that the Call of Christ by your holy 

 Labours, shall be made to speak in their Ears,' 

 in their own Language, that you may. preach 

 unto our poor Indians. I have begun the Work 

 already, and find a great difference in the Work 

 from my former Translation : I am forced some- 

 time to alter the Phrase, for the facilitating 

 and fitting it to our Language, in which I am 

 not so strict as I was in the .Scripture. Some 

 things which are fitted for English People, are 

 not fit for them, and in such cases, I make bold 

 to fit it for them. But I do little that way, 

 knowing how much beneath Wisdom it is, to 

 shew a Man's self witty, in mending another 

 Man's Work," etc. The Commissioners also 

 wrote to the Corporation in Euglaud, concern- 

 ing the printer Marmaduke Johnson, on the 

 18th of September, 1663: "the bible being fin- 

 ished . . . wee shall Indeavour to Imploy 

 him as wee can by printing the psalmes and 

 another little Treatise of Mr. Baxters which 

 Mr. Elliott is translateing into the Indian lan- 

 guage which is thought may bee vsefull and 



• profitable to the Indians." In reply to Mr. 

 Eliot's letter, Mr. Baxter wrote, in a letter 

 dated from Acton near London, November 30th, 

 1663, as follows: "We very much rejoice in 

 your happy AVork (the Translation of the Bible) 

 and bless God that hath strengthened you to 

 finish it. If any thing of mine may be hon- 

 oured to contribute in the least measure to your 

 blessed Work, I shall have great cause to be 

 thankful to God, and wholly submit the Alter- 

 ation and use of it to your Wisdom. Methinks 

 the Assemblies Catechism should be next the 

 holy Scriptures, mostworthy of your Labours." 

 In the account of his own life and times {Re- 

 liquiae Baxteriance, London, 1696), Mr. Baxter 

 also mentions this work: "Mr. Elliot sent the 

 King first the New Testament and then the 

 whole Bible, translated and printed in the In- 



