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Item

First author

Brown, John, 1722-1787

Original title

Short catechism for young children

Alternative Title

United States New York Buffalo

Named contributor

Crane, James C., 1794-1826

Publisher

[Buffalo] : Salisbury's Print--Buffalo., [1819 or 1820]

Date

1819

Country of publication

New York (State)

Language of translation

Iroquoian (Other)

Original language

English

Subjects

Scottish prose literature

Note

Metadata context: metadata created by the BOSLIT Committee

A translation into Tuscarora (an Iroquois language) of parts of John Brown's 'A short catechism for young children.' The first 41 questions correspond to those in the English-language version; the remaining text contains only 71 questions, against the English version's remaining 162, omissions and conflations accounting for the difference. The final question, numbered 112, corresponds to the 139th (of 203) questions in the English version

Caption title

Imprint from colophon, p. 16

The New York Missionary Society's report of April 1820 refers to the publication of a translation of Brown's Catechism into the Tuscarora language by Rev. J.C. Crane. This, along with a spelling book in the same language, 'have been, during the past winter, introduced into the school ...' (p. 10)

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Identifier

29918