ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES. 



455 



Schoolcraft (J.) — Continued. 



Printed also on pp. 408-409 of the various 

 reissues of the same work entitled " The red 

 race of America," 1847 and 1848; "The Indian 

 in his -wigwam," 1848; "The American In- 

 dians," 1851; and " "Western scenes and remin- 

 iscences," 1853. 



[Poem in the Ojibwa language.] 



In Schoolcraft (H. R.), Personal memoirs, pp. 

 632-633, Philadelphia, 1851, 8°. 



The English translation accompanying the 

 poem is by H. R. Schoolcraft. 



Schultze (Benjamin). See Fritz (J. F.) 



and Schultze (B.) 

 Schweinitz (E. A. de). See De Sch 



nitz (E. A.) 

 Scott (John). See Pierson (A.) 

 Selmo (Sapial). See Reade (J.) 



Sener (Samuel Miller). Some Indian 

 names. 



In the Harrisburg Telegraph, Notes and 

 Qneries, no ccxxxv, Harrisburg, Pa. June 29, 

 1889. (Pilling.) 



The name for elk, dog, etc. in a number of 

 American languages (compiled from Barton's 

 Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal), 

 among them the Delaware, Nanticoke, Mohe- 

 gan, Moonsee, Chippewa, Mississagua, Ottawa, 

 Penobscot, Nantic, Narragansett, Miami, Potta- 

 watomah, Shawnee, and Kaskasia. 

 Sentences: 



Cheyenne See Bellas (H. H.) 



Cheyenne Wilson (E. F.) 



Delaware * Featherman (A.) 



Maliseet Gordon (A. H.) 



Massachusetts Moore (M.) 



Massachusetts Shepard (T.) 



Menomonee Gatschet (A. S. 



Micmac Maillard (A. S.) 



Micmac Vetromile (E.) 



[Sergeant (Rev. John), the elder. ^ A 

 Morning Praj-er. 

 [Boston? 174-?] 



No title-page, heading only ; text (with the 

 exception of the headings in English, entirely 

 in the Mohegan or Stockbridge Indian lan- 

 guage) pp. 1-15, verso of p. 15 blank, sm. 123. 

 Signature A in six and b in two. See the fac- 

 simile of the first page. 



A Morning Prayer, pp. 1-6. — An Evening 

 Prayer, pp. 6-7. — Catechism [i. e. Dr. Watts's 

 Shorter catechism for children], pp. 8-15 



Copies seen: American Antiquarian Society, 

 Dunbar. 



Followed by : 



[ ] A Prayer before Sermon. 



[Boston? 174-?] 



No title-page, heading only ; text (with the 

 exception of the headings in English, entirely in 

 the Mohegan or Stockbridge Indian language) 

 pp. 1-23, verso of p. 23 blank, sm. 12°. Signa- 

 tures A and B in sixes. Appended to the pre- 



Sergeant (J.), the elder — Continued. 



ceding tract containing "A Morning Prayer,'' 

 etc. See the fac-simile of the first page. 



A Prayer before Sermon, pp. 1-8. — A Prayer 

 after Sermon and Baptism, pp. 8-10.— A Prayer 

 to be used at the Sacrament, &c. pp. 10-14.— A 

 Prayer for the Sick, pp. 15-16.— For the Afflict- 

 ed, pp. lG-17. — Thanks returned for Eecover3% 

 &c. pp. 17-18. — A Prayer after Sermon, pp. 18- 

 21.— A General Prayer, pp. 22-23. 



Copies seen : American Antiquarian Society, 

 Dunbar. 



A copy bound in mottled calf was sold with 

 the library of Royal Woodward, Esq., of Al- 

 bany, at New York, Decembers, 1884 (no. 1239), 

 for $21, Mr. Charles L. AVoodward being the 

 purchaser. It now belongs to Mr. John B. Dun- 

 bar. In the Ilemorial History of Boston, vol. 1 

 (1880), Dr. Trumbull says: "Iknowof only two 

 copies: one in the library of the Essex Insti- 

 tute, Salem, the other belonging to Hon. Henry 

 C. Murphy, of Brooklyn, N. Y." The copy here 

 referred to as iu Mr. Murphy's possession does 

 not appear in the sale catalogue of that gentle- 

 man's library, which was sold by auction at 

 New York, in March, 1884. 



1 hese two tracts in the Mohegan or Mohea- 

 kunnuk language (15 and 23 pp.) were issued 

 together, stitched in paper covers, without title 

 or colophon. They were first identified as the 

 work of Rev. John Sergeant by Dr. J. H. Trum- 

 bull, in volume I of the Memorial History of 

 Boston, Boston, 1880. When Dr. Trumbull's 

 essay on the "Origin and Early Progress of In- 

 dian Missions in New England " was read be- 

 fore the American Antiquarian Society at Wor- 

 cester, in October, 1873, their existence appears 

 to have been unknown. 



In the sketch of Mr. Sergeant's life given be- 

 low it is stated that he translated these pray- 

 ers, etc., "by the Help of Interpreters." One 

 of these assistants was probably John Quinney, 

 or Quanaa-kaunt, whose translation of the As- 

 sembly's Shorter Catechism into the same lan- 

 guage was printed in 1795. That publication 

 also contains, on pp. 27-31, a revision in slightly 

 different oithography of Mr. Sergeant's version 

 of Dr. Watts's Shorter Catechism, for Children, 

 first printed with the above prayers. Although 

 the Assembly's Shorter Catechism is not includ- 

 ed in the list of Mr. Sergeant's translations, it 

 is probable that this version of it was oiiginally 

 prepared under his supervision. For an ac- 

 count of it see Quinney (J.) 



John Sergeant, whose grandfather was one of 

 the first settlers of Newark, New Jersey, in 

 1666, was born in that town in 1710. A few 

 years later his father died, and his mother was 

 married again to a Col. John (Jooper. By an acci- 

 dent the lad was deprived of the use of one of 

 his hands, which rendered him unfit for man- 

 ual labor. On this account his stepfather re- 

 solved to give him a liberal education. In Sep- 

 tember, 1725, John was sent to Yale College in 

 New Haven, where he graduated in 1729 with 

 the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Three years 



