Letters, 1754-1807.

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Letters, 1754-1807.

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Letters (many with typescripts) written by Gideon Hawley, Congregational minister and missionary to the Indians at Mashpee, Mass. Hawley's letters describe the Mashpee Indians and his attempts to Christianize them, news of missionary activities at other locations, a new meetinghouse, salaries, and the transfer of documents to the Mass. Historical Society. Specifically included is a petition by the Indians to make Hawley's position permanent, financial accounts, and Hawley's reminiscences of his years as a missionary to the Indians. The recipients of Hawley's letters include Andrew Oliver, James Otis, Peter Thacher, John Eliot, James Freeman, and Jedidiah Morse, Secretary of the Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Indians and Others in North America about their missionary activities.

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Thacher, Peter, 1752-1802

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Oliver, Andrew, 1706-1774

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Massachusetts colonial official: lieutenant governor 1771-1774; commissioner to negotiate with Six Nations 1748. From the description of ALS, 1764 Nov. 28, Boston, to Rev. Stephen West, Stockbridge, Mass. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122610623 ...

Hawley, Gideon, 1727-1807

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Congregational clergyman and Yale graduate who served as a missionary to the Stockbridge Indians, 1752-1754; among the Iroquois on the New York frontier, 1754-1756; and to the Mashpee Indians, 1758-1807. From the description of Letters : Mashpee, Mass., 1770-1775. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 37849057 Missionary, minister; born, 1737; graduated from Yale University; served as a Congregational minister and as a missionary to the various Indian tribes in Massachuset...

Eliot, John, 1754-1813

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Otis, James, 1725-1783

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James Otis Jr. was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts on February 5, 1724/5. After receiving his B.A. in 1743 and his M.A. in 1746 from Harvard College, he went on to study law in Boston. Otis' work as a lawyer and writer helped the Revolutionary cause in the 1760s and 1770s. He served in the Massachusetts state government and continued as a lawyer while dealing with more and more pronounced mental illness. He died on May 23, 1783. His father, James Otis, Sr. (1702-1778) was a prominent Massachus...

Freeman, James, 1759-1835

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Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826

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Congregational clergyman and geographer of Connecticut and Massachusetts. From the description of Papers, 1783-1826. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58770513 From the description of Account book, 1816-1820. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58770209 Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826), a Congregational clergyman, was known as "the father of geography". His lectures on geography included Geography Made Easy (1784), the fir...