Seneca materials, Selections from the correspondence of the Honourable James Logan
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language: English
Date: 1702; 1741; 1743
Contributor: Logan, James, 1674-1751 | Peters, Richard, 1704-1776 | Sconshode
Subject: Fur trade | Diplomacy | Treaties | Land claims | Warfare | Virginia--History | Maryland--History | Pennsylvania--History
Type: Text
Genre: Correspondence
Extent: 3 items
Description: 1702 letter from James Logan to William Penn regarding Indian trade, mentioning Senecas; 1741 letter regarding Seneca delegation en route to Philadelphia; 1743 letter from the "king of the Senecas" to the Governor of Maryland asking that treaty be in late April or early May; that land grievances be postponed to then; that Indians not be held responsible for behavior of renegades with disreputable Scotch-Irish from Pennsylvania in Virginia;that Virginia governor give pass to Senecas to permit war parties to go south.
Collection: Selections from the correspondence of the Honourable James Logan, 1699-1750 Mss.B.L82