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Language:English
Date:1815-1865
Contributor:Conyngham, Redmond, 1781-1846 | Porter, Thomas C. (Thomas Conrad), 1822-1901 | Horsfield, Sarah | Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893
Subject:Antiquities | Pennsylvania--History | Material culture | Archaeology | Funeral rites and ceremonies | Petroglyphs
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:7 items
Description: Correspondence regarding materials relating to Pennsylvania Indians. Topics include Redmond Conyngham's letters regarding Indian rock shelters near Buck Mountain, Pennsylvania (where pottery shards and a burial were found) and his donation to the APS of stone implements (stone hammers, etc.) found at an "Indian workshop" near Paradise, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Other topics include the efforts of the heirs of Joseph Horsfield to reclaim Francis Parkman's recommendation of a Mr. Dickson "as a suitable person to copy the papers ... in the Horsefield [sic] Collection"; and Thomas C. Porter's letter acknowledging receipt of 50 copies of a communication on Indian rocks in the Susquehanna and noting that the Linnaean Society of Lancaster is making a cast of figures on rocks to present to the APS.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Language:English
Date:1630-1682
Contributor:Conyngham, Redmond, 1781-1846
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | New Jersey--History
Type:Text
Genre:Government documents
Extent:66 p.
Description: The volume contains records relating to the history of Dutch settlers in the territories that the English acquired. It may contain references to Lenape people in the Delaware River area, though specific references have not yet been identified. These are copies of documents that are held at the Pennsylvania State Archives. Many were originally in Dutch but were translated to English in this volume. The documents contain records from as early as 1638 and continue through Edmund Andros' term as governor of New England and ends in 1700. The documents include many official government proclamations and legal documents relating to Dutch property and their rights within English colonies.
Collection:Records concerning the early settlements on the Delaware River (Mss.974.8.P37)