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Contains 47 Results:

Extracts from Eliot's Indian Bible

 Item — Box: 1, Volume: A
Scope and Contents

Many taken from the copy in the possession of John Lyon Gardiner, Esq., the 12th proprietor of Gardiner's Island. 204p.



Dates: [18--]-1917.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 9187, William Wallace Tooker papers

Natick English dictionary compiled from Eliot's Bible.

 Item — Box: 1, Volume: B
Scope and Contents

Undated, handwritten manuscript, acquired February 1919. 205p.



Dates: [18--]-1917.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 9187, William Wallace Tooker papers

Printed guide and information, including card index

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 0
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection:

Correspondence, memoranda, notes, and other papers, concerning Indian place names on Long Island, N.Y., Coastal Algonquian ethnology, ethnohistory, and linguistics. Notes investigate name origins and discuss how they derive from native languages. Other notes include analysis of early American texts in native languages. Extracts made from Indian land deeds and notes discussing land boundaries also included. Index cards for all the items included.

Dates: [18--]-1917.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 9187, William Wallace Tooker papers

Indian geographical names on Long Island, New York. 19 leaves

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Also available on Reel 1, Frame 20

Dates: [18--]-1917.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 9187, William Wallace Tooker papers

Algonquian names for the rainbow (manuscript). 4p.

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Also available on Reel 1, Frame 40

Dates: [18--]-1917.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 9187, William Wallace Tooker papers

Notes on the Algonquian verb (after James Hammond Trumbull). 11p.

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Also available on Reel 1, Frame 47

Dates: [18--]-1917.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 9187, William Wallace Tooker papers

Abstracts of the journals of Mr. Azariah Horton

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents Horton was a missionary to the Indians on Long Island, in the employ of "The Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge." These journals were printed in "The Christian Monthly History, or An Account of the Revival and Progress of Religion, Abroad and at Home", published in Edinburgh in Scotland. These abstracts are intended to furnish names of places visited and persons mentioned mainly. Also some names of ministers in New England, selected from same publication, and copies of...
Dates: [18--]-1917.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 9187, William Wallace Tooker papers

The Indian names of places in Brooklyn, Long Island, with their significations

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

(Manuscript and proof sheets) Published in the Brooklyn Eagle Almanac, 1893. 17p.



Dates: [18--]-1917.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 9187, William Wallace Tooker papers

On the derivation of the name Manhattan (manuscript). 15p.

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Also available on Reel 1, Frame 129

Dates: [18--]-1917.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 9187, William Wallace Tooker papers

The origin of the name Chesapeake (manuscript). 4p.

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Also available on Reel 1, Frame 144

Dates: [18--]-1917.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 9187, William Wallace Tooker papers

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