Talk:John Eliot (missionary)

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Eliot’s Algonquian Library and Other Contributions. This list has been chiefly compiled from Winslow, John Eliot: Apostle to the Indians, p. 200-201. There are some uncertainties about the dates and probably some omissions. 1654	A Catechism (no copy found) 1654	The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (no copy found) 1655	The First Book of Moses Called Genesis (interlinear with Geneva text) 1655	The Gospel of Matthew (no copy found) 1658	A Few Psalms in Metre (no copy found) 166x	A covenanting Confession (broadside) 1661	The New Testament 1662	A Catechism (2nd ed.) 1663	The Holy Bible, Old and New Testament 1663	The Psalms of David in Metre (2nd ed.) 1663	The Assembly’s Shorter Catechism (no copy found) 1663	The Psalter 1664	Baxter’s Call to the Unconverted 1665	Godly Living Directs a Christian How he may Live to please God (An abridged edition of Baylie’s Practice of Piety) 1666	The Indian Grammar Begun 1669	The Indian Primer, or the Way of Training up of our Youth in the Good Knowledge of the Scriptures To which is prefaced the Indian Covenanting Confession 1671	Indian Dialogues for the Instruction in the great sense of Christ 1672	The Logic Primer To initiate the Indian in the Knowledge and Rule of Reason 1680	The Psalms in Metre (3rd ed.) 1685	The Holy Bible, Old and New Testaments 1685	The Indian Primer (3rd ed.) 1685	Godly Living (2nd ed. of Baylie) 1687	Baxter’s Call (2nd ed.) 1689	Thomas Shepard’s Sincere Convert and Sound Believer

The Eliot Tracts, as they have been named, are the principal contemporary source for knowledge concerning John Eliot’s work among the Indians. He is the author of only two tracts, but his letters are included in several others. The other less accessible primary sources are scattered letters, written by him to friends and supporters. 1643	Nevv England’s First Fruits, London. 1647	The Day-Breaking, if not the Sun-Rising of the Gospell with the Indians in New England, London. 1648	Shepard, Thomas, The Clear Sun-Shine of the Gospel Breaking Forth upon the Indians in New England, London. 1649	Winslow, Edward, The Glorious Progress of the Gospel, Amongst the Indians in New England, London. 1651	Whitfeld, Henry, The Light appearing more and more towards the perfect Day, or, A farther Discovery of the present state of the Indians in New-England, London. 1652	Whitfeld, Henry, Strength out of Weaknesse; or a Glorious Manifestation of the further Progresse of the Gospel among the Indians in New-England, London. 1653	Eliot, John, and Mayhew, Thomas, Tears of Repentance: Or, a further Narrative of the Progress of the Gospel Amongst the Indians in New-England, London. 1655	Eliot, John, A Late and Further Manifestation of the Progress of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New-England, London. 1659	Eliot, John, A Further Accompt of the Progresse of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New England, London. 1660	Eliot, John, A Further Account of the Progresse of the Gospel, A selection of the Confessions made by several Indians. 1670	A Brief Narration of the Progress of the Gospel among the Indians in New England.

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John Eliot (baptized 5 August 1604 - 21 May 1690) is one of the many colonial immigrants who would find a religious purpose for their life in the New World. Eliot was born in a small village near London,England. Widford, Hertfordshire, England. Records show that his father was a middleclass farmer by the name of Bennett Eliot. Eliot attended Jesus College in Cambridge. From the beginning, he showed an ability to work well with philology. Some believe that he may have gone into ministry of the Established Church soon after graduation. In 1629, Eliot began teaching at a school near Chelmsford. As an assistant and guest in the home of Rev. Thomas Hooker, John Eliot may have picked up on the Puritan influence and converted. In 1630, Eliot left the school around the time Puritan persecutions by The Church of England forced his spiritual idol, Hooker, to exile to Holland. The persecutions and the oppression he faced led Eliot to move to America on November 3, 1631.On the voyage to the New World, Eliot served as the chaplain on the ship called the ""Lyon"". He arrived in New England and settled in Boston, Massachusetts. In that town he founded the Roxbury Latin School in 1645. Eliot would later become an ordained minister at a church in Roxbury where some members were those he sailed to the New World with. Records also show that one year after his arrival in 1631, Eliot married Hanna Mumford and conceived six children with her. The Encyclopedia Americana quoted her to be "dear, faithful, pious, purdent, prayerful wife." While preaching at Roxbury, John Eliot picked up an increasing interest in the surrounding Indian population. This newfound interest sparked him to want to convert their religion. Eliot found a young Indian servant, captured in the Pequot War of 1646, to come live in his home and help teach the Algonquin Indian Language. Once he was comfortable with the language, he translated teaching material, Eliot successfully preached to the Native Americans in October 1646 at Nonantum. His first sermons were in English but within the year he began preaching in the Indians native tongue. Many Indians claimed to be Christians after just a few meetings. The conversion of the Indians provoked Eliot to ask the Massachusetts General Court to give specific areas of land for the Indians to reside on. These towns would be built away from the colonial towns in order to help preserve the Indian culture, except for their religion. The court ruled in favor of this decision and also established an annual election to choose two clergymen to preach to the Indians. Support for Eliot's plan flooded from both the New and Old England. Many people donated a great deal of money to help his endeavors. Old England also induced Parliament to establish the "Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England," which showed their support in Eliot's work. Six Puritan churches were built in the settlements. Eliot organized the first settlement for the "Praying Indians" in a place called Natick. The town had a school and meeting-house. Eliot also went to further establish his purpose by printing out the first Algonkian Bible in America. This Bible would be printed almost 120 years before an English language Bible in America. Although King Phillip's War disrupted Eliot's work, he still made major religious contributions in America. He died on May 20, 1690 in Roxbury. His legacy was left behind in many writings such as ""Up-bookum Psalmes, The Indian Primer, The Harmony of the Gospels, The Communion of the Churches, the Bay Psalm Book, and The Christian Commonwealth.""

Some facts could be salvaged from this -- 24.62.5.119 02:28, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

This article has not been helped by the editing that has ocurred over the past year. The cut portions contained hard facts and the text remaining in the main article has much of less value---oversimplification and newspaper-style language: "furious English colonists," "whose opinions he deplored," "cross-cultural missionary" (whatever that might mean in this context). The added portrait is not taken from life but from (I suspect) the "Commonwealth History of Mass"--and is a 19th-century engraver's fantasy. This is disappointing.Proyster 06:17, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

The section "Family" appears to be incorrect/ambiguous. According to the six children born to the marriage were five sons and one daughter. Two of the sons, Joseph and Benjamin, lived to maturity; three sons died in their youth. Only Joseph and Hannah lived beyond their father who died at age 85.Mtngra (talk) 02:14, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Eliot and Hooker's house at Little Baddow
In the discussion on the Thomas Hooker page I mention that I have uploaded a picture of Eliot and Hooker's house at Little Baddow to. Peterkirk (talk) 22:27, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Fixes and references
Did some quick fixes to Roxbury and Dorchester, Massachusetts and Use of the Algonquin Language. You can take it from here.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:00, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

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