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Culture:
Piscataway includes: Conoy
Miami includes: Myaamiaki
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Date:October 3, 1738; April 1756; March 10, 1778; January 13, 1788; March 4, 1856
Contributor:Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission | Logan, James, 1674-1751 | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Vogler, Jesse | Montour, Andrew | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Pennsylvania. Provincial Council | Peters, Richard, 1704-1776 | Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808
Subject:Government relations | Pennsylvania--History | Missions | Moravians | Linguistics | Treaties | Diplomacy | Ohio--History | Place names
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Minutes | Speeches | Reports
Extent:10 items
Description: Relevant materials can be found in the finding aid under the specific dates listed. Materials include information relations with the colony of Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania's Indian affairs more generally, particularly Quaker involvement, embassies to Wyoming (PA) and elsewhere, and gifts for Indians; Indian relations with the federal government of the United States; Delaware materials in the Moravian Archives at Bethlehem and elsewhere; review of Du Ponceau's Delaware Grammar in Revue Encyclopedique; Place names; Heckewelder's Account of the Indian nations; Harrison's 1803 treaty with the Delawares and other Indians at Fort Wayne; Indian settlements in Ohio, and the difficulty of Christian Indians; a Delaware spelling book with vocabularies. Other individuals mentioned include Nookamis, "Sandusky Indian," Ettwein, Zeisberger, and Paul A.W. Wallace.
Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1818-1850
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Ferris, Benjamin | Strong, Nathaniel T.
Subject:New York (State)--History | Pennsylvania--History | Missions | Diplomacy | Iroquoian languages | Linguistics | Orthography and spelling
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 items
Description: Letters regarding Seneca materials. Topics include Quakers' work with Indians, particularly Mrs. Deborah Logan's references to Quaker work at Allegany and to records at half-yearly meeting; Nathaniel T. Strong's return of a borrowed book along with his offer to send copies of all books published in the Seneca language to the American Philosophical Society and his mention of a visit of chiefs to Washington; and Benjamin Ferris' offer of 7 works, 1846-1850, principally accounts of Quaker missionary activity at Cattaraugus and Buffalo Creek, among the New York Senecas.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)