Experience Mayhew's Indian converts : a cultural edition / edited and with an introduction by Laura Arnold Leibman.
First published in 1727 under the title Indian Converts, or Some account of the lives and dying speeches of a considerable number of the Christianized Indians of Martha's Vineyard, in New-England, Experience Mayhew's history of the Wampanoag Indians on Martha's Vineyard provides a rar...
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
[2008]
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Table of Contents:
- Containing an account of several Indian ministers, both pastors, ruling elders, and deacons, who have been truly esteem'd godly persons
- Containing an account of several Indian men, not in any church office, who have appeared to be truly good men
- Containing an account of several Indian women that have been justly esteemed religious
- Containing an account of several Indian young men, maids, and children, that have appeared to be truly pious
- Some account of those English ministers who have successively presided over the work of gospelizing the Indians on the Vineyard, and adjacent islands
- Appendix: a brief account of the state of the Indians on Martha's Vineyard, and the small islands adjacent in Duke's Country, from the year 1694 to 1720.