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Joseph Johnson diary
- Title
- Joseph Johnson diary, 1772-1773.
- Author
- Johnson, Joseph, 1751?-1777.
- Supplementary Content
- Collection guide and digital images
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Request in advance | MssCol 1572 | Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 |
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- Description
- .21 linear foot (1 volume)
- Summary
- The Joseph Johnson diary, dated November 18, 1772 to February 1, 1773, was kept by Mohegan preacher Joseph Johnson during his time teaching children of the Tunxis tribe in Farmington, Connecticut. At least one child of European settlers also attended his school. Joseph Johnson was educated at Eleazar Wheelock's Indian Charity School, and eventually moved to Farmington at the suggestion of his future father-in-law and fellow Mohegan clergyman, Samson Occom. Along with Occom and other leading Christian Indians from New England and Long Island, Johnson helped establish the community of Brothertown Indians in New York during the 1770s. He was ordained at Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1774. The diary records Joseph Johnson's arrival and residence among the Farmington Indians, his activities, religious matters, and the progress of the school. It concludes with his farewell sermon, extensive but incomplete.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Diaries.
- Access (note)
- Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
- Digital images must be used in lieu of original volume.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Available as digital images.
- Funding (note)
- Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
- Publications (note)
- Diary published in: To do good to my Indian brethren: the writings of Joseph Johnson, 1751-1776. Edited by Laura J. Murray. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.
- Call Number
- MssCol 1572
- OCLC
- 768196208
- Author
- Johnson, Joseph, 1751?-1777.
- Title
- Joseph Johnson diary, 1772-1773.
- Restricted Access
- Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.Digital images must be used in lieu of original volume.
- Additional Formats
- Available as digital images.
- Funding
- Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
- Publications
- Diary published in: To do good to my Indian brethren: the writings of Joseph Johnson, 1751-1776. Edited by Laura J. Murray. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1600 - 1799
- Occupation
- Clergy.Educators.
- Research Call Number
- MssCol 1572