BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE ALGOI^QUIAN LANGUAGES. 



415 



Quaritch (B.) — Continued. 



A general | catalogue of books | of- 

 fered to the public at the affixed prices 



I by I Bernard Quaritch | Vol. I[-VI] | 



London: j 15 Piccadilly, | 1887. 



6 vols, royal 8°. An index volume was an- 

 nounced, but it has not yet (October, 1890) ap- 

 peared. 



American languages, as under the preceding 

 title, vol. 5, pp. 3021-3042. 



Copies seen : Lenox. 



This edition was publisbed at 15i. for the set, 

 including the seventh or index volume. 



No. 86. London, December, 1887. | 



A rough list | of | valuable and rare 

 books, I comprising | the choicest por- 

 tions of Various Libraries, | and many 

 very cheap works of every class of Lit- 

 erature, I at greatly reduced prices, | 

 offered by | Bernard Quaritch, 15, Pic- 

 cadilly, W. 



Printed cover (with title : "The miscellane- 

 ous and the musical library of Mr. William 

 Chappell," etc.), catalogue with heading as 

 above pp. 1-128, 8°. 



American languages, pp. 1-13, contains titles 

 of books in Algonkin, Monsi, Ochipwe, Cree, 

 Mohican, ]Sratik or Massachusi, New England, 

 aud Quiripi. 



Copies seen : Eames, Pilling. 

 Quebec Historical Society": These words follow- 

 ing a title or within parentheses after a note 

 indicate that a copy of the work referred to has 

 been seen by the compiler in the library of that 

 institution. 



Quere de Fieguron {Pere Maurice). See 

 Gay (R. M.) 



[Quinney (John).] The j Assembly's | 

 Catechism. | 



Printed at Stockbridge, Massachu- 

 setts, I by Loring Andrews. | 1795. 



Title verso blank 1 1. text (with the exception 

 of the headings in English, entirely in the 

 Mohegan or Stockbridge Indian language) pp 

 3-31, verso of p. 31 blank, 8°. Signatures [a], 

 B, c, D in fours. See the fac-similes of the title- 

 page and of the first page of the text. 



The Assembly's Shorter Catechism, pp. 3- 

 27.— Dr. Watts's Shorter Catechism for Chil- 

 dren, pp. 27-31. At the bottom of page 31 are 

 the words : " The foregoing is Printed in the 1 

 Moheakunnuk, or Stockbridge | Indian Lan- 

 guage." 



Copies seen : Lenox, Massachusetts Historical 

 Society. 



On the blank page opposite the title of the 

 Lenox copy is the following manuscript note, 

 copied from Schoolcraft's Bibliographical Cata- 

 logue, no. 63, referring to the later edition 

 described below: 



Quinney (J.) — Continued. 



"This translatio I was made by John Quin- 

 ney and Capt. Hendtick, who received their 

 [sic] commission from General Washington." 



Mr. Brinley's copy (no. 5691), bound with two 

 other tracts, sold for $24, and is now in the 

 Lenox Library. Another copy has since been 

 offered for sale for $50. 



John Qa nney, to whom this translation is 

 attributed, was an Indian of the Moheakunnuk 

 or Stockbridge tribe who lived about the mid- 

 dle of the eighteenth century. He was prob- 

 ably au assistant or interpreter to Rev. John 

 Sergeant the elder, missionary at Stockbridge 

 from 1735 to 1749, whom he perhaps aided in 

 translating prayers and other works into the 

 Indian language. Nothing has boen learned of 

 his personal history ; but his descendants were 

 prominent in the later history of the tribe. 



His son Joseph Qainney, whose name is also 

 spelled Qiian-au-kaunt or Qainequaun", "was 

 town constable in 1765 ; and iu 1777, after the 

 death of the sachem Solumou Unhaun-nau- 

 waun nutt, he was made chief of the Mohea- 

 kunnuk nation. Another Joseph Qainney, per- 

 haps a son of the former, was chosen deacon of 

 the New Stockbridge church in 1817; and in 

 the following year was one of the leaders in the 

 emigration of his people from the state of New 

 York to a new home in the west. John W. 

 Quinney, born in 1797, and educated at York- 

 town, "Westchester County, N. Y., was chief of 

 the tribe in 1819-52, while residing on Lake 

 "Winnebago in Wisconsin. 



The translation of the Assembly's Catechism 

 was probably made by John Qainney uLider the 

 supervision ot" the elder Mr, Sergeant. Accord- 

 ing to the Indian tradition, as preserved by Mr. 

 Schoolcraft in his Bibliographical Catalogue 

 (1849), no. 63, it "is understood to have been 

 done prior to the American Revolution, while 

 this tribe dwelt at Stockbridge, Mass., on the 

 Housatonic River." 



From this it may be inferred that there was 

 an earlier edition printed, of which no copy has 

 been found. However that may be, the work 

 must have been thoroughly revised afterwards, 

 and the spelling changed to agree with the lan- 

 guage as written in 1795. This is evident from 

 the fact that Dr. Watts's Shorter Catechism for 

 Children, as printed on pp. 27-31, is certainly a 

 revision of Mr. Sergeant's translation made be- 

 fore 1749, although it differs considerably in the 

 or.hography, and occasionally in the wording, 

 from that version as printed on pp. 8-15 of the 

 first part of Mr. Sergeant's prayers. 



The edition described above was printed for 

 the use of the Moheakunnuk Indians, after they 

 had removed from Stockbridge, Mass., to New 

 Stockbridge, N. Y. It was published without 

 doubt at the instance of Rev. John Sergeant the 

 younger, who also understood the language, and 

 who had been minister of the Indian church 

 since 1775. 



See Sergeant (J.) 



