[1416] Cf. John Gillies’ Hist. Coll. relating to remarkable periods of the success of the Gospel (Glasgow, 1754).
[1417] Success of the gospel among the Indians of Martha’s Vineyard (1694). Conquests and Triumphs of Grace (1696), which is reprinted in part in Mather’s Magnalia. Indian Converts of Martha’s Vineyard (1727), and Experience, its author, appended to one of his discourses a “State of the Indians, 1694-1720.”
[1418] Origin and early progress of Indian missions in New England, with a list of books in the Indian language printed at Cambridge and Boston, 1653-1721 (Worcester, 1874, or Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc., Oct., 1873); a paper on the Indian tongue and its literature in the Mem. Hist. Boston, i. 465.
[1419] Wheelock has given us A brief narrative of the Indian Charity School (London, 1766; 2d ed., 1767), and a series of tracts portray its later progress. Cf. McClure and Parish’s Memoir of Wheelock. Samson Occum and Brant were his pupils. Also see Miss Fletcher’s Report, p. 94, and S. C. Bartlett in The Granite Monthly (1888), p. 277.
[1420] See Vol. III. p. 364. There is a bibliography of the Indians in Maine in the Hist. Mag., March, 1870, p. 164. Cf. Hanson’s Gardiner, etc.; the histories of Norridgewock by Hanson and Allen; Sabine in the Christian Examiner, 1857; and Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., vols. iii., ix. On the Maine missions, see post, Vol. IV. 300; and R. H. Sherwood in the Catholic World, xxii. 656.
[1421] See Vol. III. p. 367.
[1422] Cf. Report on the Mass. Archives (1885).
[1423] Vol. III. p. 362.
[1424] Dr. Ellis has a paper on the Indians of eastern Massachusetts in the Mem. Hist. Boston, i. 241. For the middle regions there are Epaphras Hoyt’s Antiquarian Researches (Greenfield, 1824), and Temple’s North Brookfield, not to name other books. For the Stockbridge tribe and the Housatonics, see Samuel Hopkins’ Hist. Memoirs relating to the Housatunnuk Indians (1753); Jones’ Stockbridge; Charles Allen’s Report on the Stockbridge Indians (Boston, 1870; Ho. Doc. Mass. Leg., no. 13, of 1870); S. Orcutt’s Indians of the Housatonic and Naugatuck Valleys (Hartford, 1882); Mag. Amer. Hist., Dec., 1878; and Miss Fletcher’s Report, pp. 38, 90. For the Wampanoags on the borders of Rhode Island, see Smithsonian Report, 1883; and William J. Miller’s Notes concerning the Wampanoag tribe of Indians, with some account of a rock picture on the shore of Mount Hope Bay, in Bristol, R. I. (Providence, 1880).
[1425] Potter’s Early Hist. of Narragansett; R. I. Hist. Coll., viii.; Henry Bull’s Memoir in R. I. Hist. Mag., April, 1886; Usher Parsons on the Nyantics in Hist. Mag., Feb., 1863.