INDIAN NARRATIVES; Containing an account of The First Native Preacher on Martha' s Vineyard, together with sketches of several converted Indian chiefs, and other residents on the same Island. Carefully revised from the London edition, originally printed by Samuel Gerrish, bookseller in Boston, New England, 1727.
Boston: Published by James Loring, (1829). First Edition, thus. 12mo, pp. viii, 108. Bound in original printed boards (almost a half of the printed paper portion has been worn off) with chipped and worn spine, contemporary name on end paper, rear with numerical computation on it.. Engraved frontispiece. Some light foxing and toning, A very good copy. Imprints 39534. Item #57379
These are biographical sketches Christian Native American men who lived on Martha's Vineyard. The text is taken directly from chapters one and two of the Mayhew's 1727 book: Indian Converts. Mayhew was the minister to the Indians for the London based Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England.
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