INDEX.

AITKEN BIBLE, Thomas's statement about, 55, 56; correctness of this
statement questioned by Bancroft, 57; first copy of, in British
Museum, 57; Sam Hazard's letter about, 58; sanction and sup-
port of Congress sought for, 61; report of Congressional Chap-
lains upon, 62; resolution of Congress upon, 63; description of,
63, 64, 65; title-page of, 64; financially unsuccessful, 66; resolu-
tion of Presbyterian Synod upon, 66; rarity of, 67; of interest to
Americans, 67; owners of, Appendix G, 163.

AITKEN, JANE, 120.

AITKEN NEW TESTAMENT, Copy of, in Lenox Library, 60; title-page
of, 60; description of, 61; editions of, 61; title-page of, in Bible
of 1782, 65.

AITKEN, ROBERT, 59, 61, 120.

ALGONKIN LANGUAGE, 14, 15; had no equivalent for certain words,
14; Cotton Mather's opinion of, 15; Dr. Ellis on, 15.

AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, Isaiah Thomas's connection
with, 84, 85.

AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, number of its publications, 128.
AMERICAN BIBLE UNION, its revised New Testament, 129-131.

AMERICAN AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY, 129.

AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW on Dickinson's New and Corrected
Version of the New Testament, quoted, 107.

APOCRYPHA, why omitted in some copies of Collins's Bible, 90.
BANCROFT'S History of the United States, quoted, 56, 57.
BAR, JOHANN, publisher of first German folio Bible, 139.
BIBLE, Aitken, 55, and owners of, Appendix G;

Berriman & Co.'s,

122; Brown's Self-Instructing, 126; Bruce's, 128; Carey's, 121;
Clapp's, 134; Coit's Paragraph, 132-134; Collins's, 86, 128; Col-
lateral, 125; Cummiskey's, 124; Eliot of 1663, 4-16, 21, 22, 25, 110,
Appendices B and E; Eliot of 1685, 19-22, Appendices D and E;

first electrotyped, 131; first in Conn., 135; first from American
stereotyped plates, 127; Franklin's proposed, 104; first German
folio, 139; Hebrew, 124; Hieroglyphical, 131; Hodge & Camp-
bell's, 127; Hot-press, 122; Illuminated, 131; Kimber, Conrad &
Co.'s, 123; Latin, 121, 124; Moss's, 125; New York, 126, 127; Phil-
adelphia, 120-125; Right-Aim School, 132; Sargent's, 127; Saur
of 1743, 28 and Appendix F; Saur of 1763, 50 and Appendix F;
Saur of 1776, 51 and Appendix F; Smith's, Julia E., 136; Thomas,
76; Webster's (Noah),135; Young's,121; Yungmann's German 53.
"BIBLE-CONGRESS," 67.

BILLMEYER, MICHAEL, 139.

BLOMFIELD'S GREEK TESTAMENT, 115, 116.

BOYLE, HON. Robert, 7, 19, 20; dedication to, in copies of Eliot
Bible of 1685, Appendix C.

BRADFORD, WILLIAM, Proposal to print the Bible, 119, 120.

CAREY, MATTHEW, 121.

COIT'S PARAGRAPH BIBLE, 132; Quotation from preface of, 133.
COLLINS, ISAAC, 86, 128; proposes to publish a Bible, 87.

COLLINS BIBLE.

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Proposal, indorsed by Society of Friends, 87, 88;
conditionally by Baptist Association, 89; resolution of Presbyte-
rian General Assembly, 88; resolution of Convention of Protest-
ant Episcopal Church, 89; title-page of, 90; copies without
Apocrypha, 90.

CONGRESS, petitioned by Robert Aitken for support, 61; appoints
Committee to report thereon, 61; report of Committee, 62; re-
port of Chaplains of, 62; resolution of, upon Aitken's Bible, 63;
called "Bible-Congress," 67.

CORPORATION for Promoting and Propagating the Gospel, etc.; its
formation, 3; assists in printing Indian Bible, 4.

COTTON, REV. JOHN, assisted Eliot in preparing the second edition
of the Indian Bible, 18.

DEDICATION of Eliot's New Testament, 7 and Appendix A.

DEDICATION of Eliot's Bible of 1663, Appendix B.

DEDICATION to Hon. Robert Boyle, in copies of Eliot Bible of 1685,
19, 20, and Appendix C.

DICKINSON, RODOLPHUS, "New and Corrected Version of the New
Testament," quoted, 107.

DOUAY VERSION.- Publishers' appeal, quoted, 70, 71; title-page of
72; description of, 72, 73.

EAMES, WILBERFORCE, "Bibliographic Notes on Eliot's Indian
Bible," etc., quoted, 13.

EBELING, DR. C. D., his copy of Eliot Bible, 43.

ELECTROTYPED PLATES, when first used in printing American
Bibles, 131.

Translation of whole Bible, 4, 15; this edition de-
ELIOT BIBLE.-
scribed, 9-16; English title-page, 9; Indian title-page, 10; edi-
tion of 1685, description of, 19; value of this edition, 21; com-
parative importance of first and second editions, 21; interesting
associations connected with certain copies of, 22; errors in edi-
tion of 1663, 13, 14, 20, 110; errors in edition of 1685, 20; owners
of, 22-26 and Appendix D; prices of, 21, 22, 25 and Appendix E.
ELIOT, JOHN.- Purpose of, in coming to New England, 1; education,
2; studies Indian language, 2; desires to translate the Bible, 3,
4; translation accomplished, 4; publishes the New Testament,
5; publishes whole Bible, 9; character of, 26; "Apostle to the
Indians," 26; Life of, by Francis, quoted, 16.

ELIOT NEW TESTAMENT. - Published, 5; described, 6, 7; title-page
of, in English, 5; in Indian, 6; second edition described, 16, 17;
owners of, 8 and Appendix D.

ELLIS, DR., on Indian words, quoted, 15.

ENGLES, JOSEPH P., 116, 117.

EPHRATA, PENN., Bibles printed at, 138; not mentioned by O'Calla-
ghan, 139.

ERRORS, PRINTERS', 111.

FRANCIS, Life of Eliot, quoted, 16.

FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN, proposal for a New Version of the Bible, 104,
105; McMasters, on this proposal, quoted, 105.

GERMAN, Bible in, Saur's, 28; Yungmann's, 53; first folio in, 139;
New Testament in, 138, 139.

GREEK, NEW TESTAMENT IN, first American edition of, 112; other
editions, 112-118; Blomfield's, 115; Polymicrian, 116, 117.

GREEN, SAMUEL, 3, 19.

GREENFIELD, WILLIAM, 117.

HAZARD, SAM, letter of, referring to Aitken Bible, 58.

HIEROGLYPHICAL BIBLE, 109.

HIMES, JOSHUA V., 106.

INDIAN LANGUAGE. -

Cotton Mather, on, 15; Rev. Dr. Ellis, on,

quoted, 15; Lord's Prayer in, 15.

INDIANS, desire of, for Bibles, 18.

KNEELAND, REV. ABNER, 114.

LORD'S PRAYER, translated into Indian language, 3; Indian Version
of, 15; Julia E. Smith's version of, 137; Rev. Samuel Mather's
rendering of, 106.

LUTHER, HEINRICH E., assists Saur, 34, 47.

MATHER, COTTON, "Magnalia," quoted, 16; opinion of Indian words,

15.

MATHER, REV. SAMUEL, his rendering of the Lord's Prayer, 106.
MCMASTERS, quotation from Life of Benjamin Franklin, in American
Men of Letters Series, 105.

MERRIAM & Co.'s edition of the Bible, 140.

"MILLERITE" New Testament, 108.

MURDOCK, JAMES, translation of Peshito Syriac New Testament,
99; his career, 101.

NEW TESTAMENT, American Bible Union's, quoted, 139; "Dictated
by the Spirit," 109; Eliot of 1661, owners of, Appendix D; prices
of this edition, Appendix E; Eliot of 1680, owners of, Appendix
D; Eliot of 1661, title-pages, 5, 6; French, 132; Gaine's, 126;
German, 138, 139; Greek, 112-118; modern Greek, 118; Hall &
Seller's, 124; in Conn., 135; in Delaware, 135; "Millerite," 108;
Peshito Syriac, 97; Saur, 52; Socinian, 109.

NEW YORK BIBLE AND COMMON PRAYER-BOOK SOCIETY, 128.
O'CALLAGHAN, DR. E. B., his "List of Bibles," etc., referred to, 13,
20, 52, 57, 139, 140.

OMISSION in Eliot Bible, 20.

PENN. MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, quoted, 95, 96.
PESHITO SYRIAC NEW TESTAMENT. - Date of, 97; first edition of, 99;

first American translation, 99; first English translation, 99; Pre-
face of first American translation, quoted, 100; title-page of, 100.
PHINNEY, H. & E., edition of the Bible, 140.

SALT, no equivalent for, in Indian language, 14.
SAUR BIBLE. - Proposal of, quoted, 32, 33; publication of, 34; title-
page of, in German, 35; title-page translated, 35; collation of,
35; Preface of, 36-39; description of, 39; history of copies sent
to H. E. Luther, 40-46; Dedication in Luther's copy, 42; letter
of Dr. T. Schott about presentation copy, 44; Inscription in
Count Heinrich De Bunan's copy, 45; Luther's list of presenta.
tion copies, 46; second edition of, described, 50; third edition
of, 51; owners of, Appendix F.

SAUR NEW TESTAMENT; dates of issue, 52; certain editions of, omit-
ted by O'Callaghan, 52.

SEPTUAGINT. - First American translation of, 91; title-page of this
translation, 92; value of it, 93, 95.

SMITH, JULIA E., her translation quoted, 137.

STEREOTYPE PLATES, AMERICAN, first Bible from, 127.