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Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot
Miami includes: Myaamiaki
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1740-1760
Contributor:Bard, Peter | Croghan, George, 1720?-1782 | Johnson, William, 1715-1774 | Mercer, Hugh, approximately 1725-1777 | Orndt, Jacob | Hamilton, James, 1710-1783 | Trump, Levi | Penn, Thomas, 1702-1775 | Penn, Richard, 1706-1771 | Spangenberg, Joseph
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763 | Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 | Warfare | Land claims | Land transfers | Moravians | Missions | Diplomacy | Treaties | Ohio--History | Louisiana--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Passports | Instructions | Speeches | Reports
Extent:15 items
Description: Materials relating to Pennsylvania's relations with Delawares during the Seven Years' War era. Topics include provisions for Native allies; addresses by Native diplomats like Teedyuscung and representatives of Indians in Ohio; Teedyuscung's charges of land fraud and the Penns' rebuttal; a passport for Teedyuscung; Quaker support for Teedyuscung and involvement in Indian affairs; Quakers' address to the Governor and Council of Pennsylvania vindicating themselves from blame for Indian attacks; 1758 plans for a treaty with the Haudenosaunee and Delawares; other councils or meetings with Native individuals or groups; prices in Indian trade; sending out to Indians to bring in scalps; a first-person account, copied from and referring to other manuscripts, regarding trade on Ohio, history of Louisiana, French and Indian relations; Spangenberg's refutal of a charge that Moravian Indians are friendly with the French; instructions to Conrad Weiser for a 1754 trip to Augwick to determine sentiments of Haudenosaunee people, Delawares, Shawnees, Miamis, and Wyandots. Individuals mentioned include Iegra, Delaware George, Tanacharison, and Scarroyady.
Collection:Indian and Military Affairs of Pennsylvania, 1737-1775 (Mss.974.8.P19)
Language:English
Date:1755-1763
Contributor:Bassee, C. | Horsfield, Timothy, 1708-1773 | Parsons, William, 1701-1757 | Levan, Jacob, 1702-1768 | Trexler, Peter | Barons, Benjamin | Chapman, John | Denny, William, 1718- | Weiser, Conrad, 1696-1760 | Hamilton, James, 1710-1783 | Morris, Robert Hunter, approximately 1700-1764 | Powell, Joseph | Martin, James | Orndt, Jacob | Reynolds, George, 1699 or 1700-1769 | Spangenberg, August Gottlieb, 1704-1792 | Weiser, Conrad, 1696-1760 | Galbreath, James | Westbrook, Adam | McCarthy, James | Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808 | Newcastle, Captain
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | Health | Religion | Trade | Warfare | Military history | Wampum
Type:Text
Extent:56 letters
Description: In sections 1 and 2. Correspondence during the Seven Years' War (1754-1763) regarding Indian attacks on the frontier and attempts to protect friendly Indians. One letter discusses the use of passports by friendly Indians. Mention of a "berserk soldier at Fort Allen behaves indecently among squaws."
Collection:Timothy Horsfield Papers (Mss.974.8.H78)