Autobiography & journal of Rev. Joseph Badger

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Title: Autobiography & journal of Rev. Joseph Badger
Alternative Title: Memoir of Rev. Joseph Badger
Creator: Badger, Joseph, 1757-1846
Contributor: Badger, Joseph, 1757-1846
Siebert, Frank T. Ownership
Published / Created: 1840
Abstract: Joseph Badger's holograph manuscript memoir gives a short history of his ancestors in America, his participation in the Revolutionary War, education at Yale, ministry at Blandford, Massachusetts, journey to the Western Reserve in 1800, and his work with Native American tribes and settlers in the Western Reserve. At the end of his account is a history of the settlements in the Western Reserve.
Description: Ex libris Frank T. Siebert. Purchased from Sotheby's on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 1999.
Joseph Badger, one of the earliest Christian missionaries to Ohio.
The manuscript was later published, with many omissions and revisions, as A Memoir of Rev. Joseph Badger (Hudson, Ohio: Sawyer, Ingersoll, 1851).
Extent: 1 v. (100 p.) ; 32 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: text
Genre: Manuscripts
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Geographic): United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Personal narratives
Western Reserve (Ohio)--Biography
Western Reserve (Ohio)--History
Western Reserve (Ohio)--Religion
Subject (Name): Badger, Joseph, 1757-1846
Siebert, Frank T. Ownership
Subject (Topic): Frontier and pioneer life--Ohio
Indians of North America--Ohio
Indians of North America--Religion
Missions--Ohio--Western Reserve

Access: Public
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Citation: Joseph Badger, Autobiography & Journal of Rev. Joseph Badger. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.