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Lykins (J. ) — Continued. 

 Lykins, | Missionary of the Amer. Bap. 

 Bd. of For. Missions. | Aided in revis- 

 ing and comparing with the Greek, | 

 by I James Andrew Chute, M. D. | 



Sh.'iwanoe baptist mission press, | J. 

 G. Pratt, Printer. | 1842 



Reverse title: Owase ] opeaticemowa | Ceses 

 Kliest, I tapalamalikwa okwebile | Mabew oti- 

 wekiti Cinstin Liekins, | lieipiwekitiki. | 



Ealiuiapeaskiki, chena pinete, chena cose, | 

 nieitimiwicke, | 1842. 



English title verso Shawanoe title II. text en- 

 tirely in the Shawanoe language pp. 3-116, 16°. 



Copies seen: Congress. 



The I gospel | according to Matthew, 



I and the | acts of the apostles; | trans- 

 lated into the | Putawatomie language. 

 I By Johnston Lykins. | Carefully com- 

 pared with the Greek text. | Published 

 under the patronage of the American [ 

 and foreign bible society, by the board 

 of i managers of the American Indian 

 mission asso- | ciation. | 



Louisville, Ky. | William C. Buck, 

 Printer. | 1844. 



Second title: Oti ere | mnoahemowun 1 kaon- 

 uperuk Mrto, | epe | katotmoat nwakanhik | 

 kao nuperuk e Putrwatmemwun. | [Picture of 

 open book. J | O Hanstan Nykens, | 1844 tao 

 pponkit pe kanekit | Hesus Knyst. 



[No imprint.] 



English title verso blank 1 1. Putawatomie 

 title verso printers 1 1. explanation [of charac- 

 ters etc.] pp. 5-6, text entirely in the Putawa- 

 tomie language pp. 7-240, wide 16°. 



Gospel of Matthew, pp. 7-123. — Acts of the 

 apostles, pp. 125-240. 



Copies seen: Boston Athenasum, Dunbar, 

 Trumbull, Tale. 



The Brinley copy, no. 5678, sold for $13. 



[The gospel according to Mark, 



translated into the Putawatomie lan- 

 guage. 184-?] (*) 



Manuscript. The translation, after revision, 

 was left for publication with Rev. "William 

 Buck, at that time editor and publisher of the 

 "Baptist Banner," at Louisville, Ky. For 

 some reason the publication was delayed, and 

 80 far as Mr. Lykins knew at the time of his 

 death in 1876, the manuscript was lost irrecov- 

 erably. Information furnished by Mr. John B. 

 Dunbar, in letter of August 20, 1882. 



editor. See Shau-wau-no'we Ke- 



sauthwau. 



[ and others. ] Original | and j select 



hymns, | in | the Shawanoe language. | 

 By I missionaries of the Amer. bap- 

 tist board | of foreign missions. | [Two 

 lines quotation in English.] | Second 

 edition. | 



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Lykins (J.) — Continued. 



Shawanoe baptist mission press, ] J. 

 G. Pratt, printer. | 1842 



Second title: Mkimowani ] Siwinwike eali- 

 towawice | wastowice | paptesewe mkitawko- 

 lieake, | chena kotikike, | [Three lines quota- 

 tion in Shawanoe. ] | 



Ealimapeaskiki | lieipicemoti. | 1842. 



Printed cover as above, title as above recto 

 1. 1 verso Shawanoe title, text entirely in Sha- 

 wanoe pp. 3-48, sq. 16°. The Shawanoe title is 

 repeated on the outside of the back cover. 



Copies seen .- Congress. 



[ ] Original and select | hymns, 



I in the Shawanoe language. | Pub- 

 lished by one of the missionaries to | 

 the Shawanoe Indians. | [Two lines 

 quotation.] j Fourth edition. | 



St. Louis : I printed at the Methodist 

 book depository. I 1859. 



Second title : ITikimowani | siwinwike ealito- 

 wawice, | wastowice | paptesewe mkitawkolie- 

 ake, I chena kotikike. | [Two lines quotation.] | 



Ealimapeaskiki. | Lieipicemoti. ] 1859. 



English title verso 1. 1, Shawanoe title recto 

 1. 2, text pp. 3-48, 16°. Title from copy in pos- 

 session of a delegate of the Shawanoes visiting 

 Washington. 



The first Baptist mission among the Indians 

 was begun by Rev. Isaac McCoy, of Kentucky, 

 who in October, 1818, purchased a small tract of 

 land near to the Wea Indians in northern In- 

 diana, and erected two log cabins for a residence 

 and a school. 



In November, 1819, Mr. Johnston Lykins, 

 then nearly twenty years of age, was employed 

 to teach the school, which contained only eight 

 Indian children. This position he held until 

 May, 1820, when the mission was removed to 

 Fort Wayne, near the Miami Indians. His 

 engagement having terminated, he returned to 

 the settlements on the Wabash river. About 

 two years later, in February, 1822, Mr, Lykins 

 removed to Fort Wayne, and again entered the 

 service of Mr. McCoy. In June he professed 

 religion and was baptized, at the same time 

 offering to devote his life and services to the 

 Indian work. He was therefore duly appointed 

 a missionary at the Fort Wayne station, accord- 

 ing to the regulations of the Baptist Board of 

 Missions for the United States. 



In December, 18-^2, the mission was removed 

 to a place about one hundred miles northwest, 

 of Fort Wayne, on St. Joseph's river, in Michi- 

 gan territory, among the Potawatomie Indians, 

 where a new station was founded called the 

 Carey mission house. Here Mr. Lykins ap- 

 plied himself to learn the Potawatomie lan- 

 guage, and.in September, 1824, he commenced to 

 read religious discourses to the Indians in their 

 own tongue. In the following year he received 

 a government appointment as teacher at a new 

 mission station called Thomas, which had been 

 located among the Ottawa Indians on Giand 



