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Description

1. .21 linear foot (1 volume)

Summary

1. 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.

Subject

1. Tunxis Indians
2. Indians of North America > Education
3. Tunxis Indians > Missions
4. Educators
5. 1600 - 1799
6. Sermons, American > 18th century
7. Clergy
8. Farmington (Conn.) > History
9. Indians of North America > Missions > Connecticut
10. Diaries
11. Mohegan Indians
12. Connecticut > Farmington
13. Indians of North America > Education > Connecticut
14. Education

Genre/Form

1. Diaries.

Call number

1. MssCol 1572

Access (note)

1. Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
2. Digital images must be used in lieu of original volume.

Additional formats (note)

1. Available as digital images.

Funding (note)

1. Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.

Publications (note)

1. 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.

Author

1. Johnson, Joseph, 1751?-1777.

Title

1. Joseph Johnson diary, 1772-1773.

Restricted access

1. Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
2. Digital images must be used in lieu of original volume.

Additional formats

1. Available as digital images.

Funding

1. Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.

Publications

1. 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:

1. NYPL Digital Collections
2. Collection guide and digital images

Chronological term

1. 1600 - 1799

Occupation

1. Clergy.
2. Educators.

Research call number

1. MssCol 1572