Delaware language dictionary, 1856.

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Delaware language dictionary, 1856.

Manuscript glossary of Delaware/English and English/Delaware terms and pronunciation, compiled by Alexander from earlier works by David Zeisberger (1721-1808) and John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder (1743-1823), and from a work translated by Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (1760-1844).

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Alexander, J. H. (John Henry), 1812-1867

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Chief Engineer of Maryland, Surveyor and first Geologist of Maryland; commissioner to arrange uniform system of weights and measures; professor at Universities of Maryland and Pennsylvania. From the description of the John H. Alexander papers, 1824-1857. (University of Maryland Libraries). WorldCat record id: 14450167 Lawyer, mathematician, linguist, and philologist, of Baltimore, Md. From the description of Delaware language dictionary, 1856. (Maryla...

Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844

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Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823

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John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder was a Moravian missionary. From the description of Letters and manuscripts, 1741-1822. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122523571 From the description of Journey with the commissioners to the Indian treaty, 1793. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122579018 From the description of Letters and papers, 1789-1796. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 1225...

Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808

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David Zeisberger served as a Moravian missionary. From the guide to the On the prepositions of the Onondago language, [n.d.], n.d., (American Philosophical Society) From the guide to the A grammar of the language of the Lenni Lennape, or Delaware Indians, [1816], Circa 1816, (American Philosophical Society) Moravian missionary who worked to convert the Indians of Tuscarawas County, Ohio to Christianity. After hostile Indians forced them to leave the area, Zeisberger...