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Additional memoir of the Moheagans, and Uncas, their ancient sachem, written in the year 1804.
Boston: Hall and Hiller, 1804
Physical Description: p. 77-99 ; 26 cm.
Call number: F61/ M38/ ser. 1/ v.9
Accession number: N
Notes: “Specimens of the Chactaw language” (p. 94-95) gives a handful of nouns, pronouns, verbs, and phrases in Choctaw with English equivalents; an English-Chactaw-Moheagan section lists equivalents in three languages for several nouns and for numbers 1-10 (p. 96-97); “Specimen of the Moheagan language, taken at Cambridge, February 28, 1804” (p. 98-99) contains approximately 75 terms in English and Mohegan. Holmes makes reference to earlier research by Adair, Edwards, and Jenks. Prefatory note (p. 75-76) signed by A. Holmes, who obtained much of his information from James Haughton, an overseer of the Mohegan tribe. Issued in: Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, ser. 1, vol. 9.
Languages: Choctaw / Mohegan
Genre: Vocabulary
Region: North America
