Memoir of Thomas Hamitah Patoo : a native of the Marquesas Islands, who died June 19, 1823, while a member of the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut.

New York : American Tract Society, 144 Nassau-street, [1829]. At foot of wrapper title: Series IV., no. 1. Duodecimo (132 x 85 mm), illustrated yellow wrappers, stitch bound; original owner’s name (Charles A. Pierce, Groton, Mass.) to both sides of the upper wrapper; lower wrapper with publisher’s advertisement and Fanshaw, printer at foot; pp 36, illustrated with several vignette woodcuts in the text; a very good example.

This chapbook tells the story of a Marquesan who stowed away on a ship to the United States and joined the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut.

‘According to American Tract Society annual reports, Series 4 was first issued in 1829. The ATS was located at 144 Nassau St., New York, between 1827 and 1832.’ (OCLC)

Rare. Trove locates only one copy of this New York edition in Australian libraries (SLV). An example is also held in the Alexander Turnbull Library. (SLNSW holds a copy of the Andover, Mass. imprint of 1825, the first edition).