Letters [manuscript] : Eggharbour and Princeton [N.J.], to Eleazer Wheelock, 1767 June 23 - 1774 Apr. 22.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brainerd, John, 1720-1781, author.

Contributor:

Edward E. Ayer Collection (Newberry Library), owner.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beatty, Charles Clinton, 1712?-1772.

Beatty, Charles Clinton.

Johnson, William, 1715-1774.

Johnson, William.

Wheelock, Eleazar, 1711-1779.

Wheelock, Eleazar.

Catawba Indians.

Christianity.

Delaware Indians.

Missionaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Production:

[New Jersey? : producer not identified, 1767-1774]

Summary:

Two letters, June 23, 1767, and Apr. 22, 1774, from Brainerd to his frequent correspondent, Eleazar Wheelock, Congregational minister, Indian educator, and founder of Dartmouth College. Brainerd s 1767 letter concerns the postponement of his Synod-sponsored summer trip to frontier settlements in Pennsylvania and Ohio and to the Indians of Muskingum (Ohio), given reports of Indian interpreter Joseph Peepy, who had just accompanied the Charles Beatty-George Duffield party to the same area. Included are discussions of a general treaty with the Indians to be negotiated that summer by Sir William Johnson and the readiness of the Indians for Christian proselytizing.

Notes:

Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America was originally published in 2013, as American Indian Histories and Cultures. The title was changed in 2024.

AM reference: VAULT box Ayer MS 105.

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