Correspondence relating to Jonathan Edwards's mission to Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Includes a letter from Edwards to Elisha Williams stating the reasons why Abigail Williams Sergeant Dwight should not be made headmistress of a Native American female boarding school; a letter to Elijah Williams regarding dissenters in the Stockbridge church; a letter to Ephraim Williams and his family addressing their grievances against the church; and a letter to Joseph Dwight about a Mohawk tribe leaving Stockbridge. Also includes a deposition where Japheth Bush attested that he was assigned to build the Native American female school. Also includes two letters from Elisha Williams to Edwards and two letters from Joseph Dwight to the Stockbridge church discussing Abigail Williams Sergeant Dwight’s involvement with the female school
Description:
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was a theologian and leader of the Great Awakening. He served as minister of the Congregationalist Church at Northampton, Massachusetts from 1726-1750 and became a missionary to the Mahican and Mohawk Indians at Stockbridge, Massachusetts in 1751. and In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Massachusetts, Stockbridge, United States, Massachusetts., and Stockbridge (Mass.)
Calvinism, Clergy, Dissenters, Religious, Girls' schools, Indians of North America, Education, Missions, Mahican Indians, Missions, American, Mohawk Indians, Off-reservation boarding schools, Stockbridge Indians, Women, Women school principals, and Church history
A three-quarter lenth portrait of Theyanoguin (also spelled Thoyanoguen, Tiyanoga, etc.) a Mohawk sachem, facing left, wearing European style military uniform and holding a hatchet in his right hand and a wampum belt in his left. On his visit in 1740 he received elaborate court clothing trimmed with gold lace from the King. This print may be based on a painting made from that visit. Impressions of this engraving were offered for sale in the November 1755 issue of Gentlemen's magazine within months of Hendrick's death. Hendrick negotiated peace between the Six Nations and Great Britain at the Albany Conference of 1754. He was killed during the Battle of Lake George on September 8, 1755
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date based on a November 1755 advertisement in Gentleman's magazine, two months after Theyanguin's death., The subject is often confused with another Mohawk sachem Tejonihokarawa who visited England in 1710, met with Queen Anne and whose portrait was painted by John Verelst. See Dean R. Snow's article in New York History, Searching for Hendrick: correction of a historic conflation, v. 88, no.3., and Mounted to 57 x 44 cm. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by Eliz. Bakewell, opposite Birchin Lane in Cornhill
Two tintype studio portraits of Mohawk men and women from the Tyendinaga Indian Reserve, Ontario, ca. 1880. The individuals in both images wear western clothing from the period. One tintype depicts a man with a moustache posed sitting on the left side of the image and a woman posed standing on the right of the image. The other tintype depicts a man posed sitting in the center of the image and flanked by a man and woman posed standing on either side and behind him; they also all wear hats
