John Eliot

Seed sown with the tears of a confined oppressed people, says the same writer, harvest cut down by an overborne discontented reaper makes bread less sweet to the taste of an honest man than that which is the produce or just reward of such voluntary action which is one proper part of the business of human creatures.

Among the Quaker anti-slavery writers there were no such scholars as Cotton Mather and John Eliot, Chief Justice Sewall and Nathaniel Appleton.

Their language is often ungrammatical and their epithets are occasionally coarse.

A few of them indulge in wandering and irrelevant remarks which give evidence of untrained, if not ill-balanced minds.

It breeds of the Old Testament rather than the New, of righteousness and justice rather than love for one's neighbor, and the conclusion is decidedly lame.

Moreover, it is concerned with the slave trade rather than with slavery, though the arguments applied to the one may generally be applied to the other also.

But Sewell's, quote, antipathy against slavery, end quote, which lasted to the end of his days, is evidently beyond that of Cotton Mather or John Eliot.

Sewell's argument is based on the proposition that, quote, liberty is in real value next unto life, end quote, and therefore, quote, none ought to part with it themselves or deprive others of it but upon most mature consideration, end quote.

So they also came for that, that very reason, and there's many thing the ... s- the Puritans did that reflect this desire of leading them to the Christian faith.

One great example of this is a pastor, Reverend John Eliot, who had a church in the Boston area, and he worked for 40 years to evangelize the Algonquin Indians.

He would preach to them, tell them the gospel, and so in order to educate them to the fullest, he, uh, translated a Bible in their language.

But in order to do that, he first had to give them a written language.

Many speakers of marginalized languages have become literate through learning to read Christian texts, which still make up a bulk of publications in minority communities.

Puritan missionary John Eliot translated the Bible into Massachusetts, an Algonquin language spoken in the coastal and southeastern regions of what is now Massachusetts.

In 1663, Eliot's translation was the first complete Bible printed in the Western Hemisphere.

the first to be translated by a non-native speaker and one of the first translated into a language that previously had no system of writing.

Some die quietly while others embed themselves.

When the English printed the first Bible in the 1660s, John Eliot's translation incorporated many Wopinok terms, preserving them in written form.

This act made the language a living archive and gave colonial writers a linguistic bridge to their indigenous neighbors.

Later, scholars used these texts to reconstruct lost phonologies, proving that early printing was as much about preservation as commerce.

His historical works are painstaking records of the condition of New England between 1620 and 1630.

They include a narrative of troubles with the Indians, published in Boston in 1677, and a history of New England, finished in 1680. for the last-named work he received fifty pounds as a manifestation of thankfulness from the general court and the manuscript is still preserved in the library of the massachusetts historical society cotton mather in his magnalia acknowledges his indebtedness to mr hubbard he died in seventeen o four and of that event the record is still preserved in the following words he goes to ye lecture after to colonel appleton's goes home sups and dies that night the rev john eliot refers to him as equal to any in the province for learning and candour and superior to all his contemporaries as a writer the line of descent continues through john hubbard who was born in ipswich in sixteen forty eight and who in early manhood settled in boston where he became a leading merchant in sixteen seventy one he married anne leverett second daughter of sir john leverett to the career of this distinguished military leader a few words must be given Born in England in 1616, he came with his father to Boston in 1632 and became a successful merchant.

Early in life, he was chosen captain of a militia company, and in 1644, he went to England to fight against the king under Cromwell.

Later, he returned to Boston and was chosen a delegate to the general court, also becoming a member of the governor's council.

Spiritual practices that had stretched back for generations were suddenly disrupted.

For instance, the Puritan John Elliot of the Massachusetts Bay Colony tried to convert American Indians to Christianity.

He even learned the Algonquin language to do so.

And it worked.