York Auxiliary Bible Society promissory notes for translation of St. Matthew's gospel into the Ojibwa language, 1831-1832.

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York Auxiliary Bible Society promissory notes for translation of St. Matthew's gospel into the Ojibwa language, 1831-1832.

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3 promissory notes from the York Auxiliary Bible Society. Peter Jones and Peter Jacobs are paid for translating St. Matthew's Gospel into Chippewa, and W. L. Mackenzie is paid for printing the translation. Notes are signed by Jos. H. Harris, W. W. Baldwin, and Jn. Winham; the last is docketed by Mackenzie.

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York Auxiliary Bible Society (York, Upper Canada)

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Peter Jacobs (ca. 1807-1890) was an Ojibwa Indian who became a missionary around 1836. Peter Jones was the son of a Canadian surveyor and an Ojibwa woman. He was a Methodist missionary to the Ojibwa Indians and published various works for use by and about the Ojibwa, including an Ojibwa translation of St. Matthew's Gospel. William Lyon Mackenzie, printer, and politician who rallied for popular government in Canada. Joseph H. Harris came to Canada ...

Jacobs, Peter, Rev.

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York Auxiliary Bible Society (York, Upper Canada)

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Peter Jacobs was an Ojibwa Indian who became a missionary around 1836. Peter Jones was the son of a Canadian surveyor and an Ojibwa woman. He was a Methodist missionary to the Ojibwa Indians and published various works for use by and about the Ojibwa, including an Ojibwa translation of St. Matthew's Gospel. William Lyon Mackenzie, printer, and politician who rallied for popular government in Canada. Joseph H. Harris came to Canada from England in ...

Jones, Peter, 1802-1856

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Peter Jones (1802–1856) known in Ojibway as Kahkewaquonaby, meaning “sacred feathers’ or “sacred waving feathers”; also known as Desagondensta, in Kanienʼkéha, the Mohawk language, signifying “he stands people on their feet” was a Mississauga Ojibway chief, a member of the Eagle Totem, a farmer, a Methodist minister, an author, and a translator. He was born at Burlington Heights (Hamilton), Upper Canada, the son of Augustus Jones and Tuhbenahneequay. He married Eliza Field in 1833, and they h...

Jacobs, Peter, 1808-1858

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Baldwin, William Warren, 1775-1844

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Mackenzie, William Lyon, 1795-1861

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Son of Daniel and Elizabeth Mackenzie, was born at Springfield, Dundee, Scotland, Mar.12,1795. He came to Canada in 1820, where he became a shopkeeper in York, Dundee, and later Queenston. In 1824 he founded the Colonial Advocate, a political Journal. In 1828 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada; expelled for "a libel constituting a breach of the privileges of this House" in 1831; re-elected and expelled five times. He was chief organizer of the rebellion of December, 1837 ...

Harris, Joseph H., 1800-1881.

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