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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 5. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 12 0 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 8 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Zeisberger, David 1721- (search)
Zeisberger, David 1721- Missionary; born in Zauchtenthal, Moravia, April 11, 1721; came to America in his youth, and joined his parents in Georgia, who had come before. He was one of the founders of Bethlehem, Pa., in 1740, and soon afterwards became a missionary among the Indians. During the operations of Pontiac he assisted the Christian Indians, as the converts were called, and finally led them to Wyalusing, Bedford co., Pa. In 1772 he founded a Christian Indian settlement on the Tuscarawas, Ohio, where he was joined by all the Moravian Indians in Pennsylvania. That settlement was destroyed in 1781. He founded another settlement in Huron county, near Lake Erie (1787), and on the Thames, in Canada. In 1798 the Moravians returned to their former settlements in Ohio, where grants had been made them by Congress, and established a new station, which they called Goshen, and there Zeisberger preached till his death, Nov. 17, 1808. He left in manuscript a Delaware grammar and di
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Zuñi Indians, (search)
Zuñi Indians, A North American family, occupying the western part of New Mexico; discovered by Fray Marcos de Niza in 1539; and shown by the late Frank Hamilton Cushing (q. v.) to be the most interesting body of Indians now on the American continent. They were named by their discoverer the people of Cibola, A Zuñi Indian. and they originally had seven pueblos, the seven cities of Cibola. As far back as 1540, when the advance of Coronado's army reached that region, these towns were in ruins and deserted. It was K'iakime, the most easterly of these seven cities, that Fray Marcos discovered in 1539. He was killed by its inhabitants, but the monk who accompanied him escaped, and from his pen came the first account of the Zuñis, a narrative that was enlarged and embellished by subsequent travellers. Frank H. Cushing spent several years among them, was adopted by them, and gave to the world the most accurate account of their history and manners and customs that it ever posses
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 20: Indian History. (search)
th English salutations, bidding us much welcome; who leading us into the principal wigwam of Waaubon, we found many more Indians, men, women, children, gathered together from all quarters round about, according to appointment, to meet with us, and lDaniel Gookin of Cambridge be regarded as their Moses,—their civil instructor, ruler, judge, and historian. The praying Indians are said to have been early persuaded by Mr. Eliot, Aug. 6, 1651, to adopt the Mosaic form of government, by electing ruhad no more right or title to any lands in the Nipmuk country within [the bounds] of Massachusetts than any other common Indians; and therefore they disclaimed and repudiated all sales or gifts of land pretended to have been made by him. Mass. Arervices rendered by them as soldiers, Gookin says, Notwithstanding those signal and faithful services done by those Christian Indians, and divers others not here related, yet the animosity and rage of the common people increased against them, that t
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Appendix (search)
itchcraft to kill him, he would without fear set himself against them, by remembering Jehovah. He told them also, he did put all the Powwaws under his heel. Such was the faith of this good man. Nor were these Powwaws ever able to do these Christian Indians any hurt, though others were frequently hurt and killed by them.’ — Mayhew, pp. 6, 7, c. I. stood,— The wild apostle of the wood, Shook from his soul the fear of harm, And trampled on the Powwaw's charm; Until the wizard's curses hung Suspetchcraft to kill him, he would without fear set himself against them, by remembering Jehovah. He told them also, he did put all the Powwaws under his heel. Such was the faith of this good man. Nor were these Powwaws ever able to do these Christian Indians any hurt, though others were frequently hurt and killed by them. — Mayhew, pp. 6, 7, c. I. Note 16, page 363. The tooth-ache, says Roger Williams in his observations upon the language and customs of the New England tribes, is the only p
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 5. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Margaret Smith's Journal (search)
t him with his arms, said: This all Indian land. The Great Spirit made it for Indians. He made the great river for them, and birch-trees to make their canoes of. A the fish in the ponds, and all the pigeons and deer and squirrels he made for Indians. He made land for white men too; but they left it, and took Indian's land, benty meat and corn ill his wigwam. But Simon is a dog. When they fight Eastern Indians, I try to live in peace; but they say, Simon, you rogue, you no go into woods gone from them. My old friend, Passaconaway, the Chief of the Merrimac River Indians, said he, was, before his happy and marvellous conversion, a noted Powaad man goes forthwith, after death, to the happy hunting-grounds made for good Indians, or to the cold and dreary swamps and mountains, where the bad Indians do star families scattered, and driven to seek shelter with the enemy; yea, many Christian Indians, he did believe, had been sold as slaves to the Barbadoes, which he did a