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  Hadhuch-Anti hell-war; monarchy's victory; constitution's triumph; tribute's annihilation

  G V. Damiano

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  Relation of the Pequot Warres, 1901

  Lion Gardener

  Lion Gardener (1599-1663) was an English military engineer, formerly in the service of the prince of Orange, who was hired by members of the Connecticut Company in 1635 to oversee construction of fortifications for their new colony. On arriving in Connecticut in early 1636, his first assignment was to finish and garrison Saybrook Fort, at the mouth of the Connecticut River. In August 1636, the area was visited by a punitive military expedition from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, led by John Endicott, intent upon intimidating the Pequot and Niantic tribes and demanding delivery of the killers of a group of Indian traders (John Stone, Walter Norton, and six crewmen), who had been killed late in 1633. Endicott's force plundered and burned crops and villages and returned to Boston, touching off the Pequot War that lasted until the fall of 1637. Gardener's command of Saybrook Fort placed him in the center of the action, and his military background made him an astute observer and critic.

  Gardener's Relation of the Pequot Warres was written in 1660, and it remained in manuscript in various Connecticut record collections until rediscovered in 1809 and printed in the Massachusetts Historical Society Collections in 1833 (3rd Series, III, pp. 131-160). The version presented here was republished from the surviving manuscript by the Acorn Club of Connecticut in 1901, and is said to be a more faithful rendering of Gardener's original. The 33-page Relation is preceded by a 29-page introduction that gives a brief sketch of Gardener's life and a longer description of the history and provenance of the manuscript.

  Gardener's Relation is one of four contemporary English accounts of the Pequot War; the others are by John Underhill, John Mason, and Philip Vincent, the last derived from an unidentified informant.

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  Seikōkai tōbun, vol. 1

  Church of England

  Book of Common Prayer, in Japanese.

  Watkinson’s copy is missing all after p. 88 of vol. 1. Contents: Table of holy days from 1880-1892 -- Table of contents -- Morning Prayer -- Evening Prayer -- Litany from the Book of Common Prayer. Sections listed in the table of contents that are missing: Holy Communion, baptism of infants, private baptism, baptism of adults, the catechism, and the rite for confirmation--usually called the "Pastoral offices" or "Occasional offices" in liturgical bibliography. The cover identifies the source as an Anglo-American group of missionaries. Watkinson copy inscribed "Alice G. Tuttle from Sallie Sprague."

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  Seikōkai tōbun, vol. 2

  Church of England

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  A Military Manual for Schools

  F N. Freeman

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  A Military Manual for Schools

  F. N. Freeman

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  [12 leaves, once part of a copybook (Music MS. 7) containing marches and dance tunes] Stonington, CT. 1817.

  Gurdon Trumbull

  Call number: Music MS. 7

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  Gurdon Trumbull Music Copybook, 1817

  Gurdon Trumbull

  The creator/owner of the copybook (as well as of the two loose pages) would be Gurdon Trumbull (1790-1875) of Stonington, CT. The compositions are by various composers, but one to note is Sawney Freeman, a formerly enslaved man born in 1769/70 and who died in 1828. The copy book and loose pages can be dated to 1817.

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  [Copybook containing 22 topical song-texts] 1783

  Joseph Kendal Jr

  14 leaves 21.4 x 16.5 cm

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  [Musical copybook containing 107 songs and dance melodies for voice and keyboard solo, a fingering chart for guitar, and 29 additional melodies for voice, keyboard, and guitar.] Boston 1782-1793. (Access copy)

  Elizabeth Sanders Van Rensselaer

  Call number: Music MS. 8

  Access copy, so all pages are right-side up

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  [Musical copybook containing 107 songs and dance melodies for voice and keyboard solo, a fingering chart for guitar, and 29 additional melodies for voice, keyboard, and guitar.] Boston 1782-1793. (Authentic copy)

  Elizabeth Sanders Van Rensselaer

  Call number: Music MS. 8

  Authentic copy, so some pages are upside-down

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  Relation of the Pequot Warres, manuscript, 1660

  Lion Gardener

  Lion Gardener (1599-1663) was an English military engineer, formerly in the service of the prince of Orange, who was hired by members of the Connecticut Company in 1635 to oversee construction of fortifications for their new colony. On arriving in Connecticut in early 1636, his first assignment was to finish and garrison Saybrook Fort, at the mouth of the Connecticut River. In August 1636, the area was visited by a punitive military expedition from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, led by John Endicott, intent upon intimidating the Pequot and Niantic tribes and demanding delivery of the killers of a group of Indian traders (John Stone, Walter Norton, and six crewmen), who had been killed late in 1633. Endicott's force plundered and burned crops and villages and returned to Boston, touching off the Pequot War that lasted until the fall of 1637. Gardener's command of Saybrook Fort placed him in the center of the action, and his military background made him an astute observer and critic.

  Gardener's Relation is one of four contemporary English accounts of the Pequot War; the others are by John Underhill, John Mason, and Philip Vincent, the last derived from an unidentified informant.