| | Book | Save | | 1 | Title: | Vocabulary of the Massachusetts (or Natick) Indian language
| | | | Creator: | Cotton, Josiah, 1680-1756 | | | | | Pickering, John, 1777-1846 | | | | Publication: | Printed by E. W. Metcalf and company, Cambridge [Mass.],1829. | | | | Notes: | p. 113 erroneously numbered 112. Separate issue of the vocabulary edited for the first time by J. Pickering from a manuscript compiled by the Hon. Josiah Cotton (bearing dates 1707 and 1708) and published in the "Collections of the Massachusetts historical society." 3d ser., vol.II (1830) p. [147]-257. Some copies retain the original paging. cf. Advertisement signed J. D. [i. e. John Davis] and "Notice of the manuscript; with remarks on the author's orthography and the pronunciation of the language," signed J. P. [i. e. John Pickering] p. 4-7; and Pilling. Bibl. of the Algonguian languages. The Appendix (p. 100-113) contains "Examples from the Indian primer" of 1720 (being words of from one to fifteen syllables) ; two versions ofthe Lord's prayer from Eliot's Bible, and two from the Indian primer; "The ten commandments, from the Indian primer"; "A sermon preached by Josiah Cotton to the Massachusetts Indians in 1710"; "Extracts from a sermon in English and Indian ; the English part being in the hand-writing of Josiah Cotton, and the Indian in that of his father, John Cotton." | | | | Call #: | E77 S539 | | | | Extent: | 112 (ie 113) p. 25 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Massachuset language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc | Massachuset language -- Texts
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