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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:
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Language:English
Date:1755-1782
Contributor:Bondfield, John | Callendar, Robert | Franklin, William, 1731-1813 | Galloway, Joseph, 1731-1803 | Kirkland, Samuel, 1741-1808 | Peters, Richard, 1704-1776 | Wharton, Samuel, 1732-1800 | Wharton, Thomas, 1730-1782 | Callendar, William | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Franks, Moses, 1719-1789 | Taylor, John, 1745?-1806 | Pemberton, Israel, 1715-1779 | Pemberton, James, 1723-1809
Subject:United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763 | Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763-1765 | Warfare | Pennsylvania--History | Indian traders | Fur trade | Land transfers | Land claims
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Reports
Extent:22 items
Description: Correspondence and one report relating to Pennsylvania Indian affairs during the Seven Years' War and Revolutionary War eras. Topics include hostilities between Indians and colonists; murders of Indians, particularly the Frederick Stump affair and a massacre at Shamokin; traders' abuses, fears, and losses; suspicion of Proprietary regarding its relations with Indians; Quakers' efforts to make peace with native neighbors; the so-called Black Boys Rebellion in 1765; land grants as restitution to those who sustained losses during wars with Indians. Individuals mentioned include George Croghan, Aliquippy, Thomas Walpole, Mr. Dagge, Ralph Fretwell, Captain [Robert] Callender, Joseph Fox, Joseph Galloway, John Hughes, Edward Pennington, and Samuel Rhoads.
Collection:Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss.B.F85)