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Language:English
Date:1757-1758
Contributor:Clark, Daniel | Lloyd, Thomas | Discentio, Martin
Subject:United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763 | Warfare | Pennsylvania--History | New York (State)--History | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France)
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Depositions
Extent:3 items
Description: Two 1757 letters to Major James Burd reporting on theatre of war: French and Indian raiding parties at Colonel Dunbar's old camp; French and Indians have road from Albany; Indians at Shippensburg; Governor Delancey of New York on march with militia to relieve Fort William Henry, infested with French, Canadians, and Indians. Also "Declaration of Martin Discentio," in which a soldier of Captain DuVitier's [i.e., deVitri or Charles Aubry, see Hunter (1960): 134] tells of Fort Duquesne and departure of French officers and 300 Indians for attack on English [under James Burd] near Loyalhanna, October 12, 1758.
Collection:Burd-Shippen Papers (Mss.B.B892)
Language:English
Date:1702; 1745
Contributor:Logan, James, 1674-1751 | Thomas, George, 1695?-1774
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France) | Land claims | Warfare | United States--History--King George's War, 1744-1748
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:4 items
Description: One 1702 letter from James Logan to William Penn regarding fictitious charge of French Indians; no trouble from "our Indians," except perhaps at German tract; claim land not purchased. Three 1745 letters from Logan and Governor George Thomas to Conrad Weiser regarding recent attack of enemy French Indians on fort at Saratoga; asking for more intelligence of Indian intentions; dangers from Chartier; Thomas reports rumor of snowshoes stocked at French Mississippi outpost for attack on Albany and back parts of Pennsylvania. Unlikely, but possible; Weiser should assure the Indians and encourage settlers to arm.
Collection:Selections from the correspondence of the Honourable James Logan, 1699-1750 (Mss.B.L82)
Language:English
Date:August 19, 1756; October 29, 1755; December 14, 1755
Contributor:Morgan, Jacob, 1716-1792 | Morris, Robert Hunter, approximately 1700-1764 | Shippen, Edward, 1729-1806
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | Policy | Warfare
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 letters
Description: In sections 2:281, 1:31, 1: 93-94. Fort Granville was taken by 400 French and Indians. Inquires about Indian policy. 500 Indians and French seen near Carlisle. Expresses regret at the outrages of the Indians; also hopes Horsfield will continue to act for the public. After Braddock's defeat finds Pennsylvania not well prepared for a "warr" with the Indians. Identity of "Indians" described has not been verified.
Collection:Timothy Horsfield Papers (Mss.974.8.H78)
Culture:
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1757; 1767
Contributor:Wooley, Peter
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | Diplomacy | Warfare | United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Journals
Extent:3 items
Description: 1767 receipt from Peter Wooley to James Burd, on the account of John Penn for purchase of vermilion for the use of the Haudenosaunee. Journal (and copy) by unknown author, kept during the siege of Fort William Henry in August 1757, particularly mentioning Native involvement in the siege and capture of the fort and French plundering.
Collection:Burd-Shippen Papers (Mss.B.B892)
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka
Odawa includes: Ottawa
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Miami includes: Myaamiaki
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Language:English
Date:1749-1759
Contributor:Hamilton, James, 1710-1783 | Montour, Andrew | Stobo, Robert, 1726-1770 | Weiser, Conrad, 1696-1760 | Claus, Daniel, 1727-1787 | Croghan, George, 1720?-1782 | Morris, Robert Hunter, approximately 1700-1764 | Great Britain. Board of Trade | Sharpe, Horatio, 1718-1790 | Post, Christian Frederick, 1710?-1785 | Shirley, William, 1694-1771
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | New York (State)--History | United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763 | Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 | Diplomacy | Treaties | Warfare | Indian captivities | Land transfers | Land claims | Ohio--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Minutes | Journals | Reports
Extent:19 items
Description: Various items relating to Haudenosaunee-Pennsylvania relations, largely in the 1750s. Topics include need for colonial governments to renew the covenant chain; death of Tanaghrisson (Seneca, also called the Half King) suspected to be witchcraft; the diplomatic work of Scarroyady (Oneida, also called Monacatootha and the Half King), especially as a go-between between the Haudenosaunee and Pennsylvania; the Albany Plan of Union; a conference with Caughnawagas [Kahnawakes] and negotiations for the redemption of an Indian held prisoner by the Caughnawagas; drunken conduct of Andrew Montour; Conrad Weiser's dealings with the family of Shickellamy (Oneida); John Lidieus's purchase of Susquehanna lands from the Haudenosaunee for Connecticut; George Croghan's meeting at Logstown with Haudenosaunee and Shawnees; a document prepared for Governor Hamilton listing events, letters, resolutions, and behavior of Miamis and other Indians toward Haudenosaunee, Ohio lands, etc.; 1754 appointment of John Penn, Richard Peters, Benjamin Franklin as Commissioners of Pennsylvania to a list of Haudenosaunee people present at the 1758 Treaty of Easton; and Christian Frederick Post on Indian character.
Collection:Indian and Military Affairs of Pennsylvania, 1737-1775 (Mss.974.8.P19)
Culture:
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:September 2, 1761; 1742; July 1, 1756; February 13, 1756
Contributor:Brodhead, Charles | Dioga | Johnson, William, 1715-1774 | Newcastle, Captain | Parsons, William, 1701-1757 | Spangenberg, August Gottlieb, 1704-1792 | Weiser, Conrad, 1696-1760
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | Treaties | Warfare
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:4 letters
Description: In sections 2:437, 1:155, 1:103-106. Dioga, French, and Iroquois threats; attacks planned; danger to life of Brodhead. Names of the Indians present at the treaty held at Philadelphia, July 1742. Pockschnos, the Shawanese chief has gone to a council at Sir William Johnson's. Treaty session at Carlisle with the Haudenosaunee.
Collection:Timothy Horsfield Papers (Mss.974.8.H78)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1728-1816
Contributor:Denny, William, 1718- | Morris, Robert Hunter, approximately 1700-1764 | Gordon, Patrick, approximately 1664-1736
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | Military history | Warfare
Type:Text
Genre:Government documents | Petitions | Proclamations
Extent:6 documents
Description: One set of documents is related to Pennsylvania's land dispute with Connecticut. A second to tensions between Delaware Indians and white settlers in Wyoming prior to the Revolutionary War. Of particular interest is the debate within the Pennsylvania's Governor's office both planning an attack on Native villages and seeking to end abuse of Delaware, Shawnee, Mohawk, and the Iroquois Confederacy. Wolf clan of Deleware is noted.
Collection:Documents relating to the province of Pennsylvania and to the American Revolution (Mss.974.8.D65)
Culture:
Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Meskwaki includes: Mesquakie, Musquakie, Sac, Sauk, Fox, Sac-and-Fox
Mohican includes: Mahican, Muhhekunneuw
Miami includes: Myaamiaki
Kickapoo includes: Kikapú, Kiikaapoa
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1760
Contributor:Post, Christian Frederick, 1710?-1785 | Hays, John, 1729 or 1730-1796 | Teedyuscung, Delaware chief, 1700-1763
Subject:Diplomacy | Warfare | Politics and government | Government relations | United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763 | Pennsylvania--History | Ohio--History | Religion | Moravians | Indian captivities | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Journals | Travel narratives
Extent:1 reel
Description: Christian Frederick Post was a Moravian missionary and observer of Native peoples and cultures; he was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1768. This journal of Post's, who was in the company of fellow colonist John Hays and Delaware leader Teedyuscung (and also mentions Delawares Isaac Still and Moses Tattamy), relates to Post's mission as a representative of the Governor and Council of Pennsylvania to the Ohio Valley Indians and the conference held near the Ohio River in 1760. Copy in clerk's hand. Concerning message carried to Mingos (Haudenosaunee, in the Ohio Valley) and other Ohio Indians, return of colonists taken captive during the Seven Years' War, and other happenings on the journey. Includes description of conjuring ceremony. This is a microfilm of an original in possession of Mrs. Henry P. Gummere.
Collection:Journal, 1760, of the great council of the different Indian nations (Mss.Film.204)
Culture:
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Language:English
Date:1755-1763
Contributor:Horsfield, Timothy, 1708-1773 | Teedyuscung, Delaware chief, 1700-1763 | Croghan, George, 1720?-1782 | Spangenberg, August Gottlieb, 1704-1792 | Grube, Bernhard Adam, 1715-1805 | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Parsons, William, 1701-1757 | Morris, Robert Hunter, approximately 1700-1764 | Nickodemus | Newcastle, Captain | Reynolds, Captain | Peters, Richard, 1743-1828 | Read, James, 1718-1793 | Tatteroeskund | Trent, William, 1715-1787? | Hamilton, James, 1710-1783 | Jonathan, a Mohawk Sachem
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | Health | Religion | Trade | Treaties | Policy | Warfare | Military history | Smallpox
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:48 letters
Description: Correspondence during the Seven Years' War (1754-1763) regarding the Treaty of Easton, with particular attention to Teedyuscung and the Moravian Indians. One letter from Timothy Horsfled to Benjamin Franklin regards how Indians with smallpox were treated.
Collection:Timothy Horsfield Papers (974.8 H78) Section 2 (Mss.974.8.H78)
Culture:
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Language:English
Date:November 2, 1755
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | Religion | Warfare
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 letter
Description: In section 1:37-41. Encloses examination of two of the United Brethren upon their return from preaching, respecting an attack made by the French Mohawk near the Susquehanna on October 20.
Collection:Timothy Horsfield Papers (Mss.974.8.H78)