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Proud ( Robert) . The | Hi story of Penn- 

 sylvania, I in I North America, | from 

 the I Original Institution and Settlement 

 of that Province, under | the first Pro- 

 prietor and Governor William Penn, | 

 in 1681, till after the Year 1742 ; | with 

 an I introduction, | respecting, | The 

 Life of W. Penn, prior to the grant of 

 the Province, and the religious | Socie- 

 ty of the People called Quakers ; — with 

 the first rise of the neighbouring | Colo- 

 nies, more particularly of West-New- 

 Jersey, and the Settlement | of the 

 Dutch and Swedes on Delaware. | To 

 which is added, ] A brief Description 

 of the said Province, | and of the | 

 General State, in which it flourished, 

 principally between the Years 1760 and 

 1770. I The whole including a Variety 

 of Things, | Useful and interesting to 

 be known, respecting that Country in 

 early Time, &c. | With an appendix, j 

 Written principally between the Years 

 1776 and 1780, | By Robert Proud. | 

 [Four lines quotations.] | Volume 

 I[-II]. I 



Philadelphia: | printed and sold by 

 Zachariah Poulson, junior, | number 

 eighty, Chesnut-street. | 1797 [-1798]. 



2 vols. : portrait 1 1. title verso quotation etc, 

 11. preface dedicatory pp. 3-16, contents of the 

 introduction pp. 17-18, introduction pp. 19-166, 

 text pp. 167-487, index and errata and emendata 

 pp. 489-508; folded map, title verso blank II. 

 text pp. 3-236, A View of the Province of Penn- 

 sylvania pp. 237-359, Descriptio Pennsylvanise, 

 anno 1729, pp. 360-373, appendix pp. 1-132, 

 index pp. 133-146, 8°. 



The last three lines of the imprint of vol. 2 

 read: Xo. 106, Chesnut-street, | Nearly oppo- 

 site to the Bank of North America. | 1798. 

 Penn (W.), Letter etc. vol. 1, pp. 246-264. 

 Cojnesseen: Aster, Boston Athensenm, Bos- 

 ton Public, British Museum, Congress, Eames, 

 Harvard, Lenox, Massachusetts Historical 

 Society. 



Prudens (James), jr. See Tyrrell (J. B.) 



Psalm-book : 



Cree See Horden (J.) 



Cree Horden (J.) and Kirk- 



by(W.W.) 

 Cree Hunter (James). 



Cree Mackay (J. A.) 



Cree Mason (W.) 



Psalm C. [Massachusetts.] See Eliot 



(J.) 

 Psalm xxni[Micmac]. SeeRand(S. T.) 



Psalms : 



Chippewa See O'Meara (F. A.) 



Chippewa Schoolcraft (J.) 



Maliseet Rand (S. T.) 



Micraac Eand (S. T.) 



Pyrleeus ( Eev. John Christopher ). 

 [Hymns in the Mohican language. 

 1745.] (*) 



Title from Eeichel's Memorials of the Mora- 

 vian church, vol. 1, pp. 138-140. 



Mr. John W. Jordan, of the Pennsylvania 

 Historical Society, who has interested himself 

 in the Moravian missionaries and their works, 

 writes me as follows : "I examined the Bethle- 

 hem diary for the year 1745, and under date of 

 September 18th it is recorded that the first 

 translation of hymns (two) into Mohican, made 

 by Rev. J. C. Pyrlseus, 'appeared to-day.' They 

 were revised by the convert John, a Mohican 

 from Shecomeco. Prior to this date Pyrlaeus 

 h;td studied Mohican as well as Mohawk. From 

 the writing of the record I am led to believe 

 that these translated hymns were printed in 

 slips either by Franklin or Saur. I am not 

 able to verify this by the record, unfortunately. 



"The Moravian Indians who were sojourning 

 at Bethlehem, Pa., in 1745-'46 caused Pyrlfeus 

 to begin the translation of hymns for a Mohican 

 hymn book, to which other Moravians contrib- 

 uted— J. Martin Mack, David Bruce, and G-. 

 Biittner." 



Probe zu einem Gesaugbuch der Na- 



tionen der Mahikander, Delawares und 

 etliche Verse in der Sprache der 6 Na- 

 tionen. 1746. (*) 



Manuscript, pp. 1-28, sm. 8°. 

 Title from Mr. A. Glitsch, of the TJnitats-Bi- 

 bliothek, Herrnhut, Saxony, where the manu- 

 script is preserved. 



"Jno. Christopher Pyrlaeus, the Mohawk 

 scholar, was born at Pausa,Voigtland, in 1713. 

 Studied for the ministry at the University of 

 Leipsic between 1733 and 1738. Here he became 

 attached to the Brethren, visited Herrnhut, 

 and accepted an appointment as missionary. 

 Sailed from London in company with Biittner 

 and Zander, and reached Bethlehem October 19, 

 1740. Commenced the study of the Mohawk at 

 Tulpehocken, in January, 1743, under "Weiser's 

 direction. The Brethren having failed to pro- 

 cure a Mohawk Indian from Freehold to instruct 

 in that language such of their number as were 

 set apart for the mission, Pyrlaius undertook 

 this, and on the 4th of February, 1744, opened his 

 Indian school. In September of 1745 his first 

 translations of hymns into Mohican appeared. 

 This was the beginning of a collection for the 

 use of the mission. In November of 1751 he 

 sailed for England, where he labored until 1770. 

 He next went to Germany, where he died May 

 28,1785."— BeicheL 



