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Title Gideon's people : being a chronicle of an American Indian community in colonial Connecticut and the Moravian missionaries who served there / translated and edited by Corinna Dally-Starna and William A. Starna
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (2 volumes (x, 692, 656 pages)) : maps
Series The Iroquoians and their world
Iroquoians and their world.
Contents v. 1. 18 May to 5 June 1747 / Johann David Bischoff -- 6 March to 5 May 1749 / David Bruce -- 29 March to 6 December 1750 / Abraham Büninger -- 12 February to 16 June 1751 / Joachim Heinrich Sensemann -- 27 June to 11 December 1751 / Abraham Büninger -- 6 December 1751 to 15 April 1752 / Joachim Heinrich Sensemann -- 15 April to 22 May 1752 / Carl Gottfried Rundt -- 7 August 1752 to 18 February 1753 / Joachim Heinrich Sensemann -- 19 February 1753 to 27 February 1754 / Joachim Heinrich Sensemann -- 2 March to 14 May 1754 / Carl Gottfried Rundt -- No. A appendix to the Bethlehem Diario, 1747 -- 17 June to 27 July 1754 / Christian Heinrich Rauch -- 25 July to 31 December 1754 / Abraham Büninger and Christian Heinrich Rauch -- 1 January to 7 December 1755 / Abraham Büninger and Carl Gottfried Rundt
v. 2. 17 November to 22 December 1755 / Christian Seidel -- 17 November to 22 December 1755 / transcription of Christian Seidel's diary -- 19 December 1755 to 18 January 1756 / Richard Utley -- 28 February 1756 to 13 March 1757 / Nicolas Heinrich Eberhardt -- 14 March to 7 November 1757 / Nicolas Heinrich Eberhardt -- 12 October to 29 December 1758 / Bernhard Adam Grube -- 1 January 1759 to 11 August 1760 / Bernhard Adam Grube -- 15 August 1760 to 11 January 1761 / Johann Martin Mack -- 12 January 1761 to 13 February 1762 / Johann Martin Mack -- 16 February 1762 to 31 July 1763 / Joachim Heinrich Sensemann -- Catalogus of the Indian congregation in Pachgatgoch -- List of names compiled by August Gottlieb Spangenberg -- Catalogus of baptized and unbaptized Indians in Pachgatgoch -- Lists and correspondence -- Biographical list -- Gazetteer
Summary Gideon's People is the story of an American Indian community in the Housatonic Valley of northwestern Connecticut. It is based on some three decades of nearly uninterrupted German-language diaries and allied records kept by the Moravian missionaries who had joined the Indians at a place called Pachgatgoch, later Schaghticoke. It is supplemented by colonial records and regional political, social, and religious histories and ethnographies. As such, it represents the only comprehensive, thoroughly contextualized description of a Native people in southern New England and adjacent eastern New York
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Scaticook Indians -- Missions -- Connecticut -- History
Scaticook Indians -- Connecticut -- Religion
Scaticook Indians -- Connecticut -- Social life and customs
Moravians -- Missions -- Connecticut -- History
Missionaries -- Connecticut -- Diaries
HISTORY -- State & Local.
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
Missionaries
Moravians -- Missions
Connecticut
Genre/Form Diaries
History
Form Electronic book
Author Dally-Starna, Corinna.
Starna, William A.
ISBN 9780803224797
0803224796