The morning and evening prayer, the litany, church catechism, family prayers, and several chapters of the Old and New-Testament, translated into the Mahaque Indian language, by Lawrence Claesse, interpreter to William Andrews, missionary to the Indians, from the Honourable and Reverend the Society for the Propogation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. [Two lines from Psalms]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Church of England 5314

Contributor:

United States. New York.

Standardized Title:

Book of common prayer. Mohawk. Selections

Language:

Mohawk

Physical Description:

[4],40,21,[1],41-115,[1]p. ; 4⁰.

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Printed by William Bradford in New-York, 1715.

Notes:

"This first edition is entirely in the Mohawk Indian language, except the English title, and the headings to the prayers. The translation by Lawrence Claesse, was based upon the translation in manuscript of Rev. Bernardus Freeman, which had been placed freely in the hands of the Rev. William Andrews by the Propogation Society for this use."--Evans.

Second title page: Ne orhoengene neoni yogaraskhagh yondereanayendaghkwa, ne ene niyoh raodeweyena, ne onoghsadogeaghtige yondadderighwanondoentha, ne siyagonnoghsode enyondereanayendaghkwagge ..

Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1986. 1 reel ; 35mm. Film target has erroneous record id#. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 5636, no. 19).

Local Notes:

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Evans, 1740