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John Peirce Notes, on a visit to Several Tribes of Indians, 1796

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to introduce the following anec-dote, of an Indian Bible, now in the Hands of John Serjent, Minister to the Stockbridge Nation; and which we had the Sight of; it appears to have been entire, containing all the Books of the Old and new Testaments, translated into one of the Indian Lan-guages; and they have a Tra-dition amongst them; that the Translator was so Econo-mical as to use but two Quills in the whole work.