- Experience Mayhew
Experience Mayhew (1673-1758) was a
New England missionary to theWampanoag Indians on Martha's Vineyard. He was born on January 27, 1673, in Martha's Vineyard,Massachusetts , the oldest son of Rev. John Mayhew, missionary to the Indians, and great-grandson of Gov. Thomas Mayhew.Wilson, James Grant, and John Fiske, eds. "Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography". Appleton & Co. (1900), Vol. IV, pp. 275-76.] His most famous child is Arminian ministerJonathan Mayhew .He began to preach to the
Wampanoag Indians at the age of 21, and had the oversight of five or six Indian assemblies, which he continued for 64 years. Having thoroughly mastered the Wôpanâak language, which he had learned in infancy, he was employed by theSociety for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England to make a new version of thePsalms and of theGospel of John , which he did in 1709 in parallel columns of English and Indian. He published "Indian Converts" (1727), which covers the lives and culture of four generations ofWampanoag men, women, and children on Martha's Vineyard. Mayhew is also the author of the sermon "Grace Defended."It was said of him, "Had he been favored with the advantages of education he would have ranked among the first worthies of New England."
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* [http://www.umass.edu/umpress/spr_08/leibman.htm "Experience Mayhew's Indian Converts: A Cultural Edition (University of Massachusetts Press)"]
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