Title:
Letter of Rev. Adams regarding the examination of Captain Mason's Indian students.
Date:
May 3, 1728
Scope & Content:
Photocopy from a book of a letter talking about Capt. Mason's Indian students and their examination by Reverend Adams. The students were said to read from Psalters and Primers. They spell very prettily and some of them read tolerably. Captain Mason stated that he had about thirty Indian students, both boys and girls. The Indian students could say the Lord's Prayer, the Creed and the Ten Commandments. The Indians were said to like their reading.
Pequot
2 pages
Pequot
2 pages
Object ID:
DOC.1728–05–03E
Object Name:
Letter
Collection:
Tribes – Pequot, Letters & Documents,1700–1800
People:
Mason, Capt.
Adams, Rev.
Cotton
Adams, Rev.
Cotton
Search Terms:
Indian scholars
psalters
primers
spelling
Lords Prayer
Creed
Ten Commandments
catechism
reading
psalters
primers
spelling
Lords Prayer
Creed
Ten Commandments
catechism
reading