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Front Cover
Bookplate
Title Page
Matthew Chapter 1
Matthew Chapter 10
Collection ID
BIB.002816
Type
Bible - Printed Book
Date
1836
Geography
United States
Language
Mohawk
Medium
Printed on paper
Dimensions
7.1 × 4.4 × 0.7 in. (18 × 11.2 × 1.8 cm)
Exhibit Location
Not on View

This edition of the Gospel of Matthew was translated into Mohawk by Henry Aaron Hill, an American Indian missionary, catechist, and translator who worked among the Mohawk people of Upper Canada and northern New York State. Hill’s translation was one of many Mohawk translations of biblical books and other religious works to appear in the first decades of the nineteenth century by Christian missionaries such as William Hess and Thompson S. Harris. This text was published on behalf of the Young Men’s Bible Society of New York, an arm of the Bible Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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