A Prayer Book, In the Language of the Six Nations of Indians Containing the Morning and Evening Service, The Litany, Catechism, Some of the Collects, And Prayers and Thanksgivings upon Several Occasions, In the Book of Common Prayer of the Protestant Episcopal Church: Together with Forms of Family and Private Devotion

Published by Swords, Stanford, & Co. D. Fanshaw, Printer, New York, 1837

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168pp. 8vo. Oneida prayer book for tribes in Wisconsin and upper New York. Davis' work is a revision of the Indian prayer book published in 1815 by the Rev. Eleazar Williams, a catechist in Oneida Castle, New York. It does not contain the entirety of the prayer book, but "the Morning and Evening Service, the Litany, Catechism, some of the collects, and the prayers and thanksgivings upon several occasions in the Book of Common Prayer.together with forms of family and private devotion." At the end are four hymns in Oneida, without music. The Episcopal Church had a very successful ministry to the Oneida in the 19th century, and one of the Episcopal Seminaries, Nashotah House, was founded in 1842 specifically as a mission to them. Siebert Sale 499; Ayer Indian Linguistics (Oneida) 3; Pilling, Proof-Sheets 998; American Imprints 46443; Pilling, Iroquoian Languages 53; Sabin 18885; Field 404 Original cloth, crude tape repairs to to spine and corners, library bookplates and markings (of General Theological Seminary) to front board, endleaves and title page. Moderate toning to interior, partial crack to text block between pp. 34 and 35.…

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A Prayer Book, In the Language of the Six Nations of Indians Containing the Morning and Evening Service, The Litany, Catechism, Some of the Collects, And Prayers and Thanksgivings upon Several Occasions, In the Book of Common Prayer of the Protestant Episcopal Church: Together with Forms of Family and Private Devotion
Author
(Native American) Davis, Rev. Solomon
Publisher
Swords, Stanford, & Co. D. Fanshaw, Printer, New York
Publication year
1837
Binding
168pp. 8vo
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