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.
Alternative Title:
Memoir of Rev. Joseph Badger
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., and The manuscript was later published, with many omissions and revisions, as A Memoir of Rev. Joseph Badger (Hudson, Ohio: Sawyer, Ingersoll, 1851).
Subject (Geographic):
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Personal narratives, Western Reserve (Ohio)--Biography, Western Reserve (Ohio)--History, and Western Reserve (Ohio)--Religion
Subject (Name):
Badger, Joseph, 1757-1846 and Siebert, Frank T. Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life--Ohio, Indians of North America--Ohio, Indians of North America--Religion, and Missions--Ohio--Western Reserve