Nanticoke materials, American Philosophical Society Archives

Culture:
Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot
Nanticoke
Language: English
Date: 1818-1893
Contributor: Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Armstrong, Edward | Price, John Sergeant
Subject: Linguistics
Type: Text
Genre: Correspondence
Extent: 4 items
Description: Correspondence relating to Nanticoke materials at the American Philosophical Society. Includes Du Ponceau to Thomas Jefferson, suggesting that Nanticoke is a variant of Delaware; Du Ponceau to John Vaughan, mentioning the return of Nanticoke, Huron, and vocabularies of 7 languages compared by Heckewelder; R. S. Streeter of the Maryland Historical Society wants a copy of the American Philosophical Society's Nanticoke vocabulary, or copy of folio volume of Vocabularies; and John Sergeant Price to to Henry Phillips regarding A. H. Smyth's resolution [to have Daniel G. Brinton prepare Jefferson's Nanticoke vocabulary for publication].
Collection: American Philosophical Society Archives APS.Archives