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Language:English
Date:September 12, 1775
Contributor:Gordon, William, 1728-1807
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 pages
Description: Letter to Richard Price regarding efforts of British to win support or neutrality of Indians. Rev. Samuel Kirkland reports that Lord Dartmouth wishes Presbyterian missionaries suppressed; Episcopalians are loyal. Kirkland detained as a prisoner by Colonel Guy Johnson.
Collection:Richard Price Papers (Mss.B.P93)
Culture:
Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no
Language:English
Date:1714-1791, bulk 1778-1791
Subject:Diplomacy | Warfare | Government relations | Politics and government | New York (State)--History | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence | Reports
Extent:1 reel
Description: These papers include correspondence and reports of proceedings concerning Indian affairs. Miscellaneous materials, mostly 1778-1791, of Timothy Pickering, Henry Knox, William Hardenburgh, John Taylor and others. Includes 94 pages, account of a meeting of New York Governor Clinton with Onondaga and Cayuga deputies at Fort Stanwix, New York in June of 1790, and 47 pages of miscellaneous material. From originals at the New York Historical Society.
Collection:John McKesson papers, 1714-1791, pertaining to Indian affairs (Mss.Film.641)
Culture:
Miami includes: Myaamiaki
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:circa 1775-1803
Contributor:Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Dunmore, John Murray, Earl of, 1732-1809 | Fleming, William, 1729-1795
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:4 letters
Description: This collection consists of correspondence both to and from Thomas Jefferson, as well as various other material. Four letters in particular refer to Indigenous people: a letter circa 1775 from John Murray, the Earl of Dunmore, to the Delaware leader Captain White-Eyes, urging peace; a letter to Jefferon from William Fleming, June 15, 1776, discussing imminent war with Indians in Canada; Jefferson's letter to General Daniel Smith, September 10, 1800, acknowledging receiving a Chickasaw vocabulary and desire to record as many Native languages as possible; and a letter from Jefferson to Miami and Delaware Indians, January 8, 1803. Additional letters in the collection may pertain to Indigenous people in ways not yet documented.
Collection:Thomas Jefferson papers, 1775-1825 (Mss.B.J35)