ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES. 



213 



Green (S. A.) — Continued. 



Groton historical series. | No. XX | 



Two chapters in the early history | of 

 Groton. | Addenda et corrigenda. | 



Groton, Mass. | 1887. 



Half-title on cover as above, noinside title ; 

 text pp. 1-24, 8°. 



Trumbull (J. H.), Letter concerning the In- 

 dian name of the town of Groton and of Lan- 

 caster, pp. 8, 9. 



Copies seen: Pilling. 



Greenleaf (Moses). Indian names of 

 some of the streams, islands, &c., on 

 the Penobscot and St. John rivers in 

 Maine ; furnished by Moses Greenleaf. 



In American Soc. First Ann. Eept. pp. 49-53, 

 15 ew Haven, 1824, 8°. 



A list of more than a hundred Indian names 

 of geographic features with English definitions. 



Greensky (Joseph). See Barnard (Al- 



onzo). 

 Grohman (W. A. Baillie). See Baillie- 



Grohman (W. A.) 



Gros Ventre. ' See Atsina. 



Grube (Bev. Bernard Adam). Dellawser- 

 isches I Gesang-Biichlein. 



[Bethlehem: J. Brandmiiller. 1763.1 

 IN'o title-page, heading oul^^; text pp. 1-8, 16° ; 

 entirely in the Delaware language except Ger- 

 man headings to the hymns. See the fac-simile 

 of the first page, 



I have seen but an incomplete copy of this 

 little work ; it is the only one known and is in 

 the library of the Pennsylvania Historical So- 

 ciety, Philadelphia, Pa., found by Mr. J. W. 

 Jordan, of that society, during 1886, in the ar- 

 chives of the Moravian mission at Bethlehem, 

 Pa. 



[Harmony of the gospels translated 



into the Delaware tongue. By Rev. B. 

 A. Grnbe. 

 Bethlehem: J. Brandmuller. 1763. J (*) 

 Title from Hildeburn's List of the issues of 

 the press in Pennsylvania. No copy is known 

 to exist, but the local records of the Moravian 

 Society supply evidence that the work was 

 printed. 



■ Einige Dellawarische Redensarten 

 und Worte. (*) 



Manuscript, 77 11. 12^, in the library of Har- 

 vard University, Cambridge, Mass. The text 

 begins with the above heading. The Delaware 

 and equivalent German are in alternate lines, 

 the former in Roman letter, the latter in Ger- 

 man script. The entries are not arranged 

 alphabetically. Some of the verbs are accom- 

 panied by partial inflections. What seems to be 

 another grouping is called "Einige kleine 

 Anreden an Indianer." This part is in col- 



Grube (B. A.) — Continued. 



umns, Delaware and English. Then follow 

 some more pages in Delaware and German, not 

 in columns. 



This is one of the collection of ' ' manuscripts 

 in the Delaware language presented to the 

 public library of the University at Cambridge 

 by the Hon. Ebenezer Lane, of the class of 

 1811, late Chief- Justice of the State of Ohio." 

 It is marked by Judge Lane : "A vocabulary 

 of Delaware language, presented by the Rev. 

 Mr. Grube to the Rev. Mr. Luckenbach on his 

 setting out upon his western missionary jour- 

 ney in 1800." 



I am indebted to Mr. J. W. Jordan of the 

 Pennsylvania Historical Society for the follow- 

 ing notes: 



The importance of communicating directly 

 with the Indians in order to dispense with the 

 services of an interpreter— at all times, and 

 especially in matters of religion, an unsatisfac- 

 tory medium of communication— claimed the 

 attention of the Moravians in America at an 

 early date. This led them to establish schools 

 for acquiring the prevaleut languages and dia- 

 lects of that people. A minute of a church 

 council held at Bethlehem, Pa., July 15, 1742, 

 recommends the study of the Delaware in order 

 to facilitate intercourse with individuals of 

 that nation, whose visits to the settlement were 

 then of almost daily occurrence. The Mohican 

 was diligently studied during the sojourn, in 

 1745, of 46 converts from Shecomeco, and the 

 Rev. JohnC. Pyrlaeus began the preparation of 

 a Mohican hymn-book, to which others also 

 contributed translations. From Bethlehem 

 the Indian school was removed to Gnaden- 

 huetten, where it continued until that settle- 

 ment was destroyed. Zeisberger, Post, and 

 other clergymen of the church, prominent in 

 the mission among the Indians, received their 

 first instruction in these schools. 



In 1760 the mission at Wechquetanc (in 

 now Monroe County, Pa.) was commenced, and 

 the Rev. B. A. Grube appointed missionary. 

 Grube was familiar with the Delaware dialect, 

 and was ably assisted in the translation he un- 

 dertook there by the native assistant, Anton. 

 The following extracts are from the diary of 

 the mission, now in the archives at Bethlehem : 



1761. January 18. — Anton & I [Grube] 

 worked at the Delaware translation of the "Acts 

 of the Days of the Son of Man" [a Harmony of 

 the Gospels]. 



1762. March 17.— To-day I sent the first- 

 sheets of the "Acts, &c.," to Brand miller at 

 Friedensthal to print. 



April 13.— Brandrailler sent me proof to 

 read. 



1763. February 13. — Anton & I have trans- 

 lated 56 chapters for the "Harmony." 



April 1. — Brandmiller forwarded to-day first 

 proof of Essay of a DeltJ.ware Hymn Book. 



Friedensthal was a small settlement of the 

 Moravians in Northampton Co., three miles east 

 of Nazareth, 13 miles northeast from Bethlehem, 



