Seneca materials, Halliday Jackson journal, 1814
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language: English
Date: 1810-1814
Contributor: Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835
Subject: Missions | Pennsylvania--History | New York (State)--History | Religion | Government relations | Pennsylvania--History | Social life and customs | Diplomacy
Type: Text
Genre: Microfilms | Drafts | Journals
Extent: 2 items
Description: Materials compiled by Pennsylvania Quaker missionary Halliday Jackson. First item is titled "Civilization of the Indian tribes from the times of Penn to 1809" and consists of two drafts of a chronologically ordered account of relations between Pennsylvania Quakers and their Native neighbors, with special emphasis on the Seneca. An account of Native manners and customs is included in the first draft; a Seneca vocabulary is appended to the second draft. [See also Jackson (1830a); Snyderman (1957): 568.] The second item is a journal dated to 1814 containing "Some account of a visit paid to the Friends residing at Tunessassa and Cattaraugus and to the Indians residing at those places" and describing meetings with Indians, observations on social change resulting from missionary activities and white contact, and other references to the Native peoples of western New York [Haudenosaunee]. Originals in possession of Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Collection: Halliday Jackson journal, 1814 Mss.Film.631b