A single leaf torn from a copy of the 1680 edition of the New Testament, translated into the Algonquian language with notation devised by John Eliot. The leaf contains text for Acts:12:18-25, Acts:13, and Acts:14:1-3 Missionary John Eliot devised a system for transliterating the Algonquian language. A collaboration between Eliot and Native translators Job Nesuton; James Printer, a Nipmuc man and printing apprentice studying at the Indian College at Harvard; Joel Iacoomes, an Aquinnah (now part of the Wampanoag) man studying at the Indian College at Harvard; and Caleb Cheeshateaumuck, a second Aquinnah man studying at the Indian College at Harvard produced the published translation of the New Testament in 1661 and a full edition of the entire Bible, from which this leaf is taken, in 1680. It was printed at the Harvard Indian College.
