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Date:1785-1806
Contributor:Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Subject:Archaeology | Geography | Treaties | Warfare | Graves
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:0.5 Linear feet, 2 boxes; 2 volumes
Description: A manuscript compiled from originals in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania by William L. McAtee. Concerns murder of John Armstrong by Indians; mentions Canestogae tribe, Cayahoga path, Cheerake, Chickasaw, Colonel Cresap; tuberculosis among Indians; Delawares; eloquence; Indian barrows, fortifications, and graves; Kash kask kunck; Mandan; Seneca, Six Nations (Haudenosaunee), and Captain White Eyes. Also Crave Creek mound; Wyandot, Indian sugar camp; war customs and war party; treaty of December 1784 at Fort McIntosh with Chippewa and Wyandots; Indian burning; Indian diseases. Teedyuscung; Penn's treaty with the Delaware (1682 and 1702); meaning of "Geneseo"; Seneca battle with Koghquangians (Caughnawaga); Chickasaw; specimen of a Cayuga vocabulary with same list as that used in Barton (1797).
Collection:Benjamin Smith Barton journals; notebooks (Mss.B.B284.1)
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Haida includes: X̱aayda, X̱aadas, X̱aad, X̱aat
Language:English
Date:May 28, 1846; 1950
Contributor:Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 | Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Subject:Linguistics | Graves | Masks | Basketry | Art | Material culture
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 items
Description: Gallatin's letter to Messrs. Lea and Blanchard regarding returning their copy of Horatio Hale on Indian languages west of the Rocky Mountains which Gallatin borrowed to study. Trying to get Library of Congress to loan him another. Barbeau's "List of photos...research in whaler's and clipper ships' activities" including New England, New York, and Pennsylvania materials, including tombstones of eighteenth century; Northwest Coast carvings and masks; Haida argillite carvings; Eastern Woodlands baskets and bark vessels, etc. Descriptive catalogue of items from Peabody Museum of Salem, Harvard, Yale, American Museum of Natural History, U.S. National Museum, Queen's University of Kingston, Ontario.
Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)
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Susquehannock includes: Conestoga
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:October 22, 1730; November 8, 1755; July 20, 1758; 1759; February 4, 1764; August 9, 1766; February 9, 1769; February 10, 1769; October 23, 1784; March 2, 1787; 1951;
Contributor:Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820 | Johnson, William, 1715-1774 | Logan, James, 1674-1751 | Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824 | Penn, John, 1729-1795 | Penn, Thomas, 1702-1775 | Scull, William, active 1765 | Witthoft, John
Subject:Surveying | Land transfers | Land claims | Land grants | Great Britain. Treaties, etc. Six Nations, 1768 November 5 | Diplomacy | Treaties | Boundaries | Boundaries | Indian captivities | Paxton Boys | Pennsylvania--History | United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763 | Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 | Excavations | Archaeology | Graves | Grave robbing
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:12 items
Description: Materials can be found in the finding aid under the specific dates listed. Mostly eighteenth-century correspondence regarding Pennsylvania Indian affairs. Topics include purchasing Indian lands; surveying Indian lands, including those acquired through the Treaty of Fort Stanwix; surveying Proprietary lands without offending Native neigbhors; settling boundaries with Native neighbors; colonists taken captive during Seven Years' War era; the Paxton Boys' rebellion, massacre at Susquehannock, and the killing of Susquehannock refugees; a 1759 list of Native groups clothed at Pittsburgh, with information about where they reside and hunt; and diplomacy (i.e., trying to secure Native allies) during Seven Years' War era. Also Witthoft's 1951 "The Pemberton Family Cemetary," containing a narrative of the excavation of cemetery at Pennsbury with burials of Pemberton family, 1683-1802 as well as a murdered Indian (before 1705) and white pauper of later date. Individuals mentioned include Scarroyady, Isaac Pemberton, Joseph Shippen, and David the Indian.
Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)
Language:English
Date:November 26, 1875
Contributor:Haldeman, Samuel Stehman, 1812-1880
Subject:Archaeology | Beads | Graves | Grave robbing
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 letter
Description: Collecting beads; has many from Indian graves. The Smithsonian wants to display them at the Centennial.
Collection:Samuel Stehman Haldeman letters (Mss.B.H129)