• A sermon at the execution of Moses Paul, an Indian; : who had been guilty of murder, preached at New Haven in America / by Samson Occom, a native Indian, and missionary to the Indians, who was in England in 1776 and 1777, collecting for the Indian charity schools. To which is added a short account of the late spread of the Gospel among the Indians. Also, Observations on the language of the Muhhekaneew Indians; communicated to the Connecticut Society of Arts and Sciences / by Jonathan Edwards, D.D.

Collections:

• Indigenous Cultures
• Print Culture in Indigenous North America

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9925250363506421

Language:

• English

Creator:

• Occom, Samson, 1723-1792

Extent:

• 24, 15 p. ; 23 cm

Format:

• Book

Type:

• Sermons

Description:

• Observations on the language of the Muhhekaneew Indians has separate t.p. and pagination but is unsigned; its imprint reads: New-Haven, printed by Josiah Meigs, 1787; London reprinted by W. Justins, 1788.
• First published in 1772.

Publisher:

• New-Haven, Connecticut: : Printed 1788. ; London: : Reprinted, and sold by Buckland ... Dilly ... Otridge ... J. Lepard ... T. Pitcher ... Brown ... Binns ... and Woolmer, 1788.

Subject:

• Paul, Moses 1742?-1772
• Execution sermons—Connecticut—New Haven
• Mahican language—Early works to 1800
• Indigenous Studies
• Sermons

References:

• Pilling, J.C. Algonquian languages, p. 125.

Author:

• Occom, Samson, 1723-1792

Created:

• 1788-01-01T00:00:00Z/1788-12-31T23:59:59Z

Date:

• 1788-1788

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/dcqv33s7566

Edm rights:

• Copyright Not Evaluated

Range label:

• Logical

Text language:

• Contains lists of words in Mahican, Shawnee (Shawanee), Ojibwa (Chippewau), and Mohawk (Mohauk).

Call number:

• 1070.212.68

Location:

• Special Collections 1070.212.68