id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6429 Eliot Indian Bible - Wikipedia .html text/html 3195 374 71 Eliot made his first text for the Corporation for the propagation of the Gospel in New England into the Massachusett language as a one volume textbook primer catechism in 1653 printed by Samuel Green.[14] He then translated and had printed in 1655-56 the Gospel of Matthew, book of Genesis, and Psalms into the Algonquian Indian language.[15][12] It was printed as a sample run for the London Corporation to show what a complete finished Algonquian Bible might look like.[16] The Corporation approved the sample and sent a professional printer, Marmaduke Johnson, to America in 1660 with 100 reams of paper and eighty pounds of new type for the printer involved to print the Bible.[3][17] To accommodate the transcription of the Algonquian Indian language phonemes extra "O's" and "K's" had to be ordered for the printing press.[3] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6429.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6429.txt