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Date:circa 1784, 1800, 1818
Contributor:Butrick, D. S. (Daniel Sabin), 1789-1847 | Campbell, David | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Gambold, John | Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816
Subject:Linguistics | North Carolina--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Reports | Vocabularies
Extent:42 pages
Description: The Cherokee materials in this collection consist of manuscripts listed in the finding aid as items 2, 5, 6, 38, 39, 41, 42. These include Vocabularies in various forms, some comparing Cherokee to other languages, as well as correspondence discussing Cherokee linguistics features, and one complaining of white harassment of Cherokees to be removed.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection (Mss.497.V85)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1798-1799
Contributor:Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816
Subject:Ethnography | Geography | Treaties | Warfare
Type:Text
Genre:Reports
Extent:1 volume
Description: One of three manuscript copies in Hawkins' hand, the other two being in the Georgia Department of Archives and History [see Pound (1951):251]. A listing of towns and villages of Muskhogee and especially Creek Indians, together with a discussion of customs, the Busketau, and answers to queries proposed to an old Creek Indian. Addenda on war parties, 1813, and treaties, 1773-1796.
Collection:Sketch of the Creek country in the years 1798 and 1799 (Mss.970.3.H31)