Dr. Ted Hildebrandt, John Eliot, Apostle to the Indians, Session 1, Significance, Birth to Roxbury, MA
(86 mins.) mp3 Audio
Dr. Ted Hildebrandt, John Eliot, Apostle to the Indians, Session 2, Wabon’s wigwam to Natick Village
(67 mins.) mp3 Audio
Dr. Ted Hildebrandt, John Eliot, Apostle to the Indians, Session 3, Bible, King Philip’s War, Final Tributes to John Eliot
(67 mins.) mp3 Audio
John Eliot, Apostle to the Indians (1604-1690) Presentation notes
for the 3 Youtube presentations by Ted Hildebrandt.
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PowerPoints for the 3 John Eliot presentations:
Session 1, Session 2, Session 3
John Eliot & Friends Public Domain Biographies
Adams, Nehemiah. The Life of John Eliot: With an Account of the
Early Missionary Efforts Among the Indians of New England
(Boston: 1870), 324 pgs.
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Baxter, Richard. A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live (pdf from
CCEL.org, Eliot Translated this into Algonquin). Personal friend
a Puritan who corresponded with Eliot from England.
(Acrobat *.pdf)
Brainerd, David. The life of Rev. David Brainerd, chiefly extracted from
his diary : Brainerd, David, 1718-1747 : Free Download, Borrow,
and Streaming : Internet Archive. By Jonathan Edwards.
Brainerd was a missionary to the native Americans
ca. 1718-1747, 100 years after Eliot and another amazing
person.
CCEL.org version
Francis, Convers. Life of John Eliot: The Apostle to the Indians
(Harpers and Brothers, 1840) 357 pgs.
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Hare, Lloyd C.M., Thomas Mayhew: Patriarch to the Indians
(1931; 225 pgs). Friend of John Eliot, shared Indian vision
on Martha’s Vineyard.
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Mayhew, Experience [1673-1758]. Indian Convert: or, Some account
of the lives and dying speeches of a considerable number of
Christianized Indians of Martha’s Vineyard, in New-
England.
LibriVox audio recording (mp3). Digital text at archive.org
Moore, Martin. Memoirs of the Life and Character of Rev.
John Eliot: Apostle to the N. An. Indians
(Flagg & Gould, printers, 1822). 174 pgs.
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Religious Tract Society, 1799. The Life of John Eliot: Apostle to the
Indians (72 pgs.)
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Walker, George Leon. Thomas Hooker: Preacher, Founder, Democrat
(NY: Dod Mead & Company, 1891) – Eliot’s mentor at
Little Baddow, founder of Hartford, first governor of Conneticut
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Walker, Williston. Ten New England Leaders (1901) Chapter IV.
John Eliot (pp. 137-171). 34 pgs.
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Wilson, John. Life of John eliot, The Apostle of the Indians: Including
Notices of the Principal Attempts to Propagate Christianity
in North America, During the Seventeenth Century
G. Lane and P.P. Sandford, 1841. 117 pgs.
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Other More Primary John Eliot Sources
Eliot, John. Indian Bible: Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe,
Up-Biblum God (1663, second edition 1685). Mamusse
wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God naneeswe Nukkone
Testament kah wonk Wusku Testament. : Eliot, John, 1604-1690 :
Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming: Internet Archive.
De Normandie, James. “John Eliot, the Apostle to the Indians,”
The Harvard Theological Review, July, 1912, Vol. 5, No. 3.
pp. 349-370.
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Unknown. A Further Accompt of the Progresse of the Gospel
amongst the Indians in New-England (1659)
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Eames, Wilberforce. John Eliot and the Indians 1652-1657: Being
Letters Addressed to Rev. Jonathan Hanmer of Barnstaple,
England (NY: The Adam and Grace Press, 1915)
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Eliot, John and others, The whole Booke of Psalmes faithfully
Translated into English metre (1640).
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Eliot, John. A Brief Narrative of the progress of the Gospel among
the Indians of New England (1670).
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Eliot, John. Communion of Churches: Or, The Divine Management of
Gospel-churches by the Ordinance of Councils, Constituted
in Order According to the Scriptures, 1665.
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Eliot, John. The Dying speeches of several Indians (1685).
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Eliot, John. Indian Dialogues, For Their Instruction in that great
Service of Christ, in calling home their Country-men to the
Knowledge of God, and of Themselves and of Jesus Christ.
1665.
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Eliot, John. A Grammar of the Massachusetts Indian Language by
John Eliot. A New Edition: with Notes and Observations
by Peter S. Du Ponceau, LL.D. and An Introduction and
Supplementary Observations by Joh Pickering.
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Eliot, John. The Indian Primer; The way of training up of our Indian
Youth in the good knowledge of God, 1669.
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Eliot, John. A late and further manifestation of the progress of
the gospel amongst the Indians in New-England declaring
their constant love and zeal to the truth. (1665).
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Eliot, John, Richard Mather and Thomas Mayhew.
Tears of Repentance: Or, A further Narrative of the Progress
of the Gospel Amongst the Indians in New-England, 1653.
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Eliot, John. The Christian Commonwealth: or The Civil Policy of
the Rising Kingdom of Jesus Christ (1653)
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Eliot, John, Thomas Shepard, John Wilson (uncertain author(s)).
Day Breaking If not the Sun Rising of the Gospel with
the Indians in New England (1648).
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Gookin, Daniel. An Historical Account of the Doing and Sufferings
of the Christian Indians in New England, in the years 1675,
1676, 1677. — He was Eliot’s friend and head overseeing
the Christian Indian Villages
Adobe Acrobat (*.pdf)
Powicke. F. J. Some Unpublished Correspondence of the Rev.
Richard Baxter and the Rev. John Eliot, “The Apostle to
the American Indians,” 1656-1682.
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Shepard, Thomas. The Clear Sunshine of the Gospel breaking
forth upon the Indians in New England. (1648)
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Tooker, William Wallace. John Eliot’s First Indian Teacher and
Interpreter, Cockenoe-de-Long Island and the Story of
his Career from the Early Records, 1896.
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Whitfield, Henry. Strength out of weakness. Or a glorious
manifestation of the further progresse of the gospel
amongst the Indians in New-England. 1652.
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Modern John Eliot Sources
Winslow, Ola Elizabeth. John Eliot: “Apostle to the Indians”
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968). Excellent!
Beals, Carleton, John Eliot, the man who loved the Indians
(July 3l, 1604-May 20, 1690). (NY: Messner, 1957)
Benge, Dustin and Nate Pickowicz. The American Puritans
(Reformation Heritage Books, May 20, 2020). Ch. on Eliot.
Breen, Lousie A. Daniel Gookin, the Praying Indians, and King Philip’s
War: A Short History in Documents (Routledge, 2019).
Bremer, Francis J. The Puritan Experiment: New England Society
from Bradford t Edwards (University Press of New England,
August 15, 1995).
Caverly, Robert B. Life and Labors of John Eliot, the Apostle Among
the Indian Nations of New England: Together With an Account
of the Eliots in England (Andesite Press, 2017 reprint of 1881
Lowell, MA edition)
Clark, Michael P. The Eliot Tracts: With Letters from John Eliot
to Thomas Thorowgood and Richard Baxter 1707 (2003)
Prager.
Cogley, Richard W. John Eliot’s Mission to the Indians before
King Philip’s War (Harvard University Press, April 30, 1999)
Eames, Wilberforce, John Eliot and Theodore Vail, John Eliot and the
Indians, 1652-1657: Being Letters Addressed to Rev.
Jonathan Hanmer of Barnstaple, England, (1915).
Fowler, James A. Algonquin Indian New Testament (John Eliot)
C I Y Publishing (May 25, 2011).
Gray, Kathryn N. John Eliot and the Praying Indians of
Massachusetts Bay: Communities and Connections in
Puritan New England (Bucknell University Press, Reprint
edition (April 1, 2015).
Goddard, Ives and Katheleen Bragdon, Native Writings in Massachusett
(Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1998).
Gookin, Daniel. An Account of the Doings and Sufferings of the
Christian Indians in New England, in the years 1675, 1676,
1677. — King’s Philip’s War, companion of Eliot.
Gookin, Frederick W. Daniel Gookin (1612-1687 Assistant and Major
General of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. (Chicago, Privately
Printed, 1912). –Eliot Companion
Guice, Stephen A. “The Linguistic Work of John Eliot” (PhD diss,.
Michigan State University, 1990).
Gura, Philip F. A Glimpse of Sion’s Glory: Puritan Radicalism in
New England, 1620-1660. (Wesleyan University Press, Nov.
1, 1984).
Hare, Lloyd C. M. Thomas Mayhew, patriarch to the Indians (1593-1682)
(NY: Appleton and Co., 1932). — Martha Vineyard Indians
Jarvis, F. Washington. The Roxbury Latin School 1645-1995
(Boston: David R. Godine Publisher, 1995) – 89 pages on Eliot.
Powicke, F. J. (ed.) Some Unpublished Correspondence of the Rev.
Richard Baxter and the Rev. John Eliot, The Apostle to the
American Indians, 1656-1682 (Manchester University
Press, 1931).
Vaughan, Alden. New England Frontier: Puritans and Indians,
1620-1675. University of Oklahoma Press, (April 15, 1995).
Youtube Videos on John Eliot
John Eliot, Gordon College Vining Exhibit, 9/28/21,
Exhibit Video 10 minutes by Ted Hildebrandt
https://youtu.be/1hF6FXiH8JM
John Eliot: Apostle to the Indians, Bible Museum, 1 min.
https://youtu.be/Y8hyZ5wv5fQ
The Apostle to the Indians: John Eliot -1670. 27 mins. not best.
https://youtu.be/DkbVjirmRoU
John Eliot: Translating the Bible for the Native Americans
Cody Crouch (8 mins.)
https://youtu.be/YQz0JH5CZ4U
The Eliot Indian Bible (Museum of the Bible) 1 min.
https://youtu.be/8LTpitdIBIw
John Eliot (1604-1690): “The Apostle to the Indians”
MEGIDDO TV (1 hr. 5 mins.)
https://youtu.be/7i3zLujMVbE
Eliot Indian Bible; One Page, Two Minutes, Video Shorts on Rare
Books (3 mins.)
https://youtu.be/tkcMTTCLdSw
Part 1: Hassanamesit – A Praying Indian Village [History of Grafton MA]
https://youtu.be/PNNq2b5zQdl [15 mins.]
AN 1686 NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN DEED: JOHN ELIOT’S PRAYING
INDIANS, by Dennis Morrison.
https://youtu.be/Wvlrx60nmiI
Web Resources on John Eliot
American Heritage: “Apostle to the Indians”
John Eliot (Missionary) – Wikipedia.
Boston University School of Theology: John Eliot (1604-1690)
Greatsite.com “English Bible History: John Eliot”
DiscerningHistory.com “John Eliot: The Apostle to the Indians”
NatickHistoricaySociety.org “17th Century Natick”
Dartmouth College Library Bulletin – The Dartmouth Copy of
John Eliot’s Indian Bible (1639 [sic]): Its Provenance by
Dick Hoefnagel. — Gordon College has the 1663 ed.
which is when Eliot printed the first edition of his Bible.
Evangelical Times, “John Eliot: Puritan Missionary to the Indians”
Matthew Vogan, August 2004.
ChristianityToday.com. Christian History Apostle to Native
Americans