Journey with the commissioners to the Indian treaty

Culture:
Shawnee
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Language: English
Date: circa 1793-1819
Contributor: Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823
Subject: Diplomacy | Treaties | Indian agents | Politics and government | Government relations | United States--Politics and government | Moravians | Pennsylvania--History
Type: Still Image | Text
Genre: Microfilms | Journals | Travel narratives | Correspondence | Minutes | Engravings
Extent: 1 reel
Description: This journal of Moravian missionary John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder covers travels among the Indians to a conference in Detroit in 1793. Includes a list of the names of different Indian nations in North America, their locations, and number of fighting men. Also contains miscellaneous materials: a letter from Heckewelder to Mordecai Churchman, October 5, 1819, mentioning Peter S. Du Ponceau; engraving of Heckewelder possibly from a painting at the American Philosophical Society; a 1-page letter of Maria Heckewelder to Matthew S. Henry requesting him to relinquish the volume; and some Heckewelder letters. Originals at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Collection: Journey with the commissioners to the Indian treaty Mss.Film.805.1