Samuel Green (printer)
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Samuel Green was an early American printer, the first of several printers from the Green family who followed in his footsteps. One of Green's major accomplishments as a printer was the Eliot Indian Bi
The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments, translated into the Massachusetts Indian Language. Printed by Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1663
Eliot Indian Bible
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The Eliot Indian Bible was the first translation of the Christian Bible into an indigenous American language, as well as the first Bible published in British North America. It was prepared by English
Samuel Green (printer)
…printer, the first of several printers from the Green family who followed in his footsteps. One of Green's major accomplishments as a printer was the Eliot Indian Bible, translated by the missionary John Eliot, typeset by James Printer, which became the first Bible to be printed in British America in 1663. Members of…
Algonquian Indian Bible title page 1663
Algonquian Indian Bible title page 1685
The English missionary John Eliot arrived in 1631 and sought to learn Algonquian in order to convert the Native Americans to Christianity.
Algonquian Indian Bible - Genesis 1 Old Testament first page of 1685 copy