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In 1827 the Cherokee council having formerly resolved to establish a national paper in the Cherokee language and characters, types for that purpose were cast in Boston, under the supervision of the noted missionary, Worcester, of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, who, in December of that year, contributed to the Missionary Herald five verses of Genesis in the new syllabary, this seeming to be its first appearance ...in print.

Early in the year the press and types arrived at New Echota, and the first number of the new paper, Tsa'lagi Tsu'lehisanun'hi, the Cherokee Phoenix, printed in both languages, appeared on February 21, 1828.

The first printers were two white men, Isaac N. Harris and John F. Wheeler, with John Caudy, a half-blood apprentice. ELIAS BOUDINOT (Galagi-na, `The Buck'), an educated Cherokee, was the editor, and Reverend S. A. Worcester was the guiding spirit who brought order out of chaos and set the work in motion. The office was a log house.

The hand press and types, after having been shipped by water from Boston, were transported two hundred miles by wagon from Augusta to their destination. The printing paper had been overlooked and had to be brought by the same tedious process from Knoxville.

Cases and other equipments had to be dressed and fashioned BY THE PRINTERS, NEITHER OF WHOM UNDERSTOOD A WORD OF CHEROKEE, BUT SIMPLY SET UP THE CHARACTERS AS HANDED TO THEM IN MANUSCRIPT

by Worcester and the editor BOUDINOT