Research Catalog

Title

Joseph Johnson diary, 1772-1773.

Author

Johnson, Joseph, 1751?-1777.

Supplementary Content

Collection guide and digital images

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Details

Description

.21 linear foot (1 volume)

Summary

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

• 1600 - 1799
• Indians of North America > Education > Connecticut
• Indians of North America > Missions > Connecticut
• Mohegan Indians
• Sermons, American > 18th century
• Tunxis Indians > Missions
• Education
• Indians of North America > Education
• Tunxis Indians
• Farmington (Conn.) > History
• Connecticut > Farmington

Genre/Form

Diaries.

Access (note)

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

Additional Formats (note)

• Available as digital images.

Funding (note)

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

Publications (note)

• 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.

Call Number

MssCol 1572

OCLC

768196208

Author

Johnson, Joseph, 1751?-1777.

Title

Joseph Johnson diary, 1772-1773.

Restricted Access

Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.

Digital images must be used in lieu of original volume.

Additional Formats

Available as digital images.

Funding

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

Publications

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.

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Collection guide and digital images

Chronological Term

1600 - 1799

Occupation

Clergy.

Educators.

Research Call Number

MssCol 1572