Indian speech : Delived [sic] before a gentleman missionary, from Massachusetts, by a chief, commonly called by the white people Red Jacket. His Indian name is Sagu-ya-what-hath, which being interpreted, is Keeper-awke [sic].

Author/creator Red Jacket
Format Electronic
Publication Info[Boston] : N. Coverly, printer, 16, Milk-Street, Boston, [between 1810 and 1814]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 27 x 22 cm
Supplemental ContentShaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
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SeriesEarly American imprints. Second series no. 9232. ^A575643
General noteConcerning attempts by white missionaries to impose Christianity on the Indians. Delivered at an assembly of chiefs and warriors of the Six Nations held at Buffalo Creek, N.Y., during the summer of 1805.
General noteNathaniel Coverly, Jr. is first listed at this address in the Boston directory for 1810. American Antiquarian Society copy tipped into the first volume of the Isaiah Thomas collection of broadside ballads, between nos. 90 and 91, preceding two other editions of the Indian speech printed by Coverly between 1810 and 1814. Cf. Ford, W.C. Thomas ballads, 123 and 124.
General noteText in two columns; printed area measures 23.0 x 19.2 cm.
References Shaw & Shoemaker 9232
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 9232).
Genre/formBroadsides.

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