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Title: John Eliot's First Indian Teacher and Interpreter Cockenoe-de-Long Island and The Story of His Career from the Early Records

Author: William Wallace Tooker

Release Date: December 26, 2007 [EBook #24046]

Language: English

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COCKENOE-DE-LONG ISLAND

Edition Limited
To 215 Copies.

_No. 169._

[Illustration: INDIAN GRAVES ON FORT HILL, MONTAUK]

JOHN ELIOT'S

FIRST INDIAN TEACHER AND
INTERPRETER

COCKENOE-DE-LONG ISLAND

AND

_The Story of His Career from the Early Records_

BY

WILLIAM WALLACE TOOKER

_Member of the Long Island Historical Society, Anthropological
Society of Washington, etc., etc._

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"He was the first that I made use of to teach me words
and to be my interpreter."--_Eliot's Letter_, 2, 12, 1648.

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LONDON:
HENRY STEVENS' SON AND STILES.

1896

RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO THE OFFICERS AND MEMBERS
OF THE SUFFOLK COUNTY (N. Y.) HISTORICAL
SOCIETY BY YOUR FELLOW MEMBER

WILLIAM WALLACE TOOKER.

INTRODUCTION.

_This little work is a brief resume of the career of an Indian of Long
Island,