| Author | Hammerer, John Daniel.
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| Title | An account of a plan for civilizing the North American Indians, proposed in the eighteenth century. By John Daniel Hammerer. Ed. by Paul Leicester Ford.
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| Published | Brooklyn, Historical printing club, 1890.
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| Description | 28 p. 18 cm.
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| Series | Winnowings in American history. Indian tracts, no. 1
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| General Note | A copy of the 2d ed. of the original, in the E. E. Ayer collection at the Newberry library, Chicago, has the following postscript printed at the end: "P. S. by the editor of this second impression. Soon after this plan was published (being in January 1765) a ship being taken up by order of the government, to convey back to America three Indians then here, leave was obtained from the Earl of Hilsborough ... for the author of this scheme to go over in the same ship with them to Virginia ... and he ... proceeded from thence overland ... to the Cherokee country; where he was when the last letters received were wrote, being the 20th of September and 10th of October 1765 ... T. C. [i.e. Thomas Crowley]"
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| Subjects | Cherokee Indians.
Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation.
Indians of North America -- Education.
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| LC Card Number | 03-27182 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: E 97 H22
mq99503: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 55749] |
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