Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Indian Committee. Records, 1791-1892
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language: English
Date: 1756-1908
Contributor: Society of Friends
Subject: Missions | Education | Religion | Government relations | Pennsylvania--History | New York (State)--History
Type: Text
Genre: Microfilms | Correspondence | Diaries | Reports | Minutes
Extent: 12 reels
Description: Selections made by Dr. George Snyderman for the American Philosophical Society from the Society of Friends' Record Room in Philadelphia. Includes 12 reels of letters, diaries, reports of missionaries and individual Quakers, etc., committee reports and correspondence from Indians to Quakers, 1791-1908 and undated; minutes of the Committee...for Promoting the Improvement and Gradual Civilization of the Indian Natives (Indian Committee), 1795-1895 and beyond; minutes of the Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures, 1756-1791; and miscellaneous papers of teachers, pupils, visitors to Tunessassa Indian School, Quaker Bridge, New York, mostly twentieth century.
Collection: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Indian Committee. Records, 1791-1892 Mss.Film.824