The Eliot Indian Bible (1663)
The first Bible printed in British America was printed in Cambridge in 1663 — in Wôpanâak, the Massachusett language, translated with Native collaborators including Job Nesutan and James Printer. Today it anchors the Wampanoag language reclamation movement.
One of the oldest things still standing in the region — dated to 1663, and tied to 3 other entities across four centuries of the city’s record.
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1607: Young Puritan minister (1607–1638) whose deathbed gift of his library and half his estate gave the new college his name.
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Look for the older layer before you move on. This object is connected to more than its facade suggests.Newtowne Becomes Cambridge (1638) →Cambridge History DeskLocal historian
Look for the older layer before you move on. This object is connected to more than its facade suggests.Newtowne Becomes Cambridge (1638) →
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