| 6 | Creator: | Vater, Johann Severin,1771-1826. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | An enquiry into the origin of the population of America from the old continent, [ca. 1820]
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1820 | | | | Abstract: | This work was translated by Peter S. Du Ponceau from Vater's "Untersuchungen über Amerikas Bevölkerung aus dem alten Kontinente" (Leipzig, 1810). It was Du Ponceau's opinion that Vater was moved to write this book by Benjamin Smith Barton's "New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America," which Vater often quoted. Contains bibliographical notes. | | | | Call #: | Mss.572.97.V45d | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | America -- Antiquities. | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Manuscript Essays | Native America | Population -- History. | Vater, Johann Severin,1771-1826. | |
| 11 | Creator: | Roth, Johann Ferdinand,d. 1814. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Ein Versuch: der Geschichte unsers Herrn u. Heylandes Jesu Christi in dass Delawarische übersezt der Unami von der Marter Woche an bis zur Himmalfahrt unsers Herrn, 1770-1772
| | | | Dates: | 1770-1772 | | | | Abstract: | This volume is the fifth part of a life of Jesus from Passion Week to Ascension, compiled from Gospel sources and translated from the German into the Delaware Indian language by Roth, who was a Moravian missionary at Sheshequim on the Susquehanna River. The manuscript was discovered in the house of Roth's son, Rev. John Rhodes, in 1831. Fly-leaf title: "Ein versuch, etc. The History of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ from Passion Week to his Ascension to Heaven. Translated into the Unami Dialect of the Delaware Language in the years 1770 and 1772 at Tschektschequamink on the Susquehannah ... Translated by Mr. Rhodes." | | | | Call #: | Mss.232.9.R74 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bible stories, German. | Biographies. | Jesus Christ. | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Manuscript Essays | Missionaries. | Native America | Religion | Roth, Johann Ferdinand,d. 1814. | |
| 12 | Creator: | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Names which the Lenni Lenape...had given to rivers, streams, places, etc., 1822
| | | | Dates: | 1822 | | | | Abstract: | Place names (taken from deeds of conveyance and maps, and narrated by Indians) for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia, together with names and biographies of chiefs and famous men. Translations included. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.3.H35n | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Diaries | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Language and Linguistics | Names, Delaware. | Names, Indian -- North America. | Native America | Native American Materials | Oral History | |
| 15 | Creator: | Schmick, Joh. Jac. (Johann Jacob), 1714-1778 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Miscellanea linguae nationis Indicae Mahikan
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1753-1767 | | | | Abstract: | Born in Königsberg, Prussia, in 1714, the Moravian missionary Johann Jacob Schmick studied theology as a young man and became acquainted with the teachings of the United Brethren as early as 1742, taking his first communion six years later. He was called to become a missionary in 1751, and was appointed to the Indian congregation at Gnadenhutten, Pa., ministering primarily to a congregation of Mahican converts who had settled there. Schmick taught reading and writing, and was particularly known for teaching singing and introducing the spinet and other instruments to the Indians. He continued in his missionary work almost to the time of his death in 1778.
Schmick's Miscellanea linguae nationis Indicae Mahikan consists of two volumes (322pp.) of manuscript vocabulary and notes on the Mahican language recorded between about 1753 and 1767. It consists of words and phrases in Mahican, written phonologically, and translated into their German equivalents. The volumes have been edited, translated, and published by Carl Masthay as
Schmick's Mahican Dictionary
APS Memoir 197 (1991). | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.3.Sch5 | | | | Extent: | 0.2 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Dictionaries. | Indians of North America--Languages | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Linguistics | Mahican language | Mahican language--Dictionaries--German | Moravians--Missions | Native America | Native American Materials | Schmick, Joh. Jac. (Johann Jacob), 1714-1778 | |
| 16 | Creator: | Townsend, John Kirk,1809-1851. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Vocabularies of the Okonagan, Attnaha, and Walla Walla languages, [and] Vocabularies of the languages of Indians inhabiting N.W. America, 1834-1836
| | | | Dates: | 1834-1836 | | | | Abstract: | These vocabularies were obtained from Indians, people of mixed ancestry, and traders, with most of the informants identified. One volume appears to contain the notes from which the other was prepared. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.3.T66 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Indians of North America--Languages | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Native America | Native American Materials | Salishan languages | Townsend, John Kirk,1809-1851. | Vocabularies. | Walla Walla Indians | |
| 19 | Creator: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A comparative vocabulary of Indian languages
| | | | Dates: | 1798-1821 | | | | Abstract: | This volume contains extracts of Barton's "New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America" (Philadelphia, 1797), with additions by Peter S. Du Ponceau. 54 words have equivalents listed in columns of 50-70 languages. While Barton listed no authority, Du Ponceau cited sources. Includes sounds of the Othomi language; declension. Omaha, Kanzes, Otto; and symbol and sound. Also includes a review of Barton's book in "Göttingische Anzeigen von gelehrten Sachen," June 17, 1799. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.B28 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Foreign Language | Indians of North America--Languages | Indians--Origin | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Native America | Native American Materials | |
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