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Culture:
Susquehannock includes: Conestoga
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1753-1771
Subject:United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763 | Pennsylvania--History | Paxton Boys
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Orderly book
Extent:10 items
Description: Letters between members of the Shippen family and other Philadelphia notables like William Logan and Robert Hunter Morris regarding Indian affairs largely during the Seven Years' War era. Joseph Shippen, Jr.'s 1758 orderly book discusses the taking of Fort Duquesne, along with Indian affairs. Individuals mentioned include Teedyuscung, John Shekalemy, Captain Jacob, Shingas, Castologa, the Half-King, Zaccheus (a Wighaloosin (Wyalusing) Indian), Captain Culbertson, George Croghan, Delaware chief Wenawalike or Simon, Killbuck, and Newcomen. Ohio Indians and villages, Wyoming, Treaty of Easton, Virginia Indians, Shawnees, Susquehannocks, Munsees, and the Haudenosaunee are also mentioned.
Collection:Edward Shippen letters and papers (Mss.B.Sh62)
Culture:
Susquehannock includes: Conestoga
Language:English
Date:1763-1764
Contributor:Shippen, Edward, approximately 1703-1781
Subject:Paxton Boys | Pennsylvania--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 items
Description: Two letters to Joseph Shippen and one to Reverend Elder regarding massacre of the Susquehannock Indians by colonists in December 1763, and subsequent murder of those kept in workhouse for safekeeping.
Collection:Edward Shippen letters and papers (Mss.B.Sh62)