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Language:English
Date:July 12, 1760-December 10, 1760
Contributor:Fort Pitt Quartermaster
Type:Text
Genre:Account books
Extent:1 volume
Description: Cash book of quartermaster of Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania. Receipts of payments by Horatio Gates, Robert Monckton, Sir John St. Clair, and others. There are expenditures for oats, candles, hire of horses and drivers, tobacco, rum, express riders, etc. Sundries sold to Indians; Indians buy venison; James Milwe, surgeon's mate, paid for attending sick Indians.
Collection:Burd-Shippen Papers (Mss.B.B892)
Culture:
Ktunaxa includes: Kootenai, Kootenay, Kutenai, Tonaxa
Date:1946-1950
Contributor:Garvin, Paul L. | Stanley, Joe | Adams, Isaac | Andrew, Pete | Chiqui, Joe | Dennis, Joe | Eustace, Chief | Francis, Nicle | George, John | Jimmie, Joe | Jimmie, Joe, Mrs. | Joseph, Chris | Lefthand, Abraham, Mrs. | Matthias, Baptiste, Chief | Sam, Martin | White, Albert | White, Basil | White, Louis Paul | White, Louis Paul, Mrs.
Subject:British Columbia--History | Montana--History | Idaho--History | Food | Warfare | Birds | Politics and government | Canada--History | Diplomacy | Hunting | Migrations | Government relations | Agriculture | Whites--Relations with Indians | Fishing | Ecology | Anthropology | Alcohol | Gambling | Circuses | Games | Music | Kinship | Diseases | Health | Military service | Military history
Type:Text
Genre:Stories | Oral histories
Extent:1 linear foot (11 reel-to-reel tapes, 24 folders)
Description: The majority of the Paul Garvin Papers is from fieldwork conducted by Garvin in 1946 and 1950 in Bonner's Ferry, Idaho, Cranbrook, B.C., Creston, B.C., Elmo, Montana, Premier Lake, B.C., Tobacco Plains, B.C., and Windermere, B.C.. The first 11 tapes (Series I) are Ktunaxa, as are all the transcripts (Series II). Tapes may correspond to transcripts.
Collection:Paul Garvin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.281)
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)
Language:English
Date:1755-1763
Contributor:Bassee, C. | Horsfield, Timothy, 1708-1773 | Parsons, William, 1701-1757 | Levan, Jacob, 1702-1768 | Trexler, Peter | Barons, Benjamin | Chapman, John | Denny, William, 1718- | Weiser, Conrad, 1696-1760 | Hamilton, James, 1710-1783 | Morris, Robert Hunter, approximately 1700-1764 | Powell, Joseph | Martin, James | Orndt, Jacob | Reynolds, George, 1699 or 1700-1769 | Spangenberg, August Gottlieb, 1704-1792 | Weiser, Conrad, 1696-1760 | Galbreath, James | Westbrook, Adam | McCarthy, James | Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808 | Newcastle, Captain
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | Health | Religion | Trade | Warfare | Military history | Wampum
Type:Text
Extent:56 letters
Description: In sections 1 and 2. Correspondence during the Seven Years' War (1754-1763) regarding Indian attacks on the frontier and attempts to protect friendly Indians. One letter discusses the use of passports by friendly Indians. Mention of a "berserk soldier at Fort Allen behaves indecently among squaws."
Collection:Timothy Horsfield Papers (Mss.974.8.H78)
Language:English
Date:1728
Contributor:Byrd, William, 1674-1744
Type:Text
Genre:Maps | Travel narratives
Extent:1 volume
Description: The only known copy of a manuscript possibly earlier than Byrd's History (#525). This contains fewer Indian references and lacks interpolated information, but describes contact with Saponi and Nottoway Indians in 1728. Three pages missing; these are printed in Woodfin (1945), from fragments of early draft.
Collection:Secret history of the line between Virginia and North Carolina (Mss.975.5.B99s)
Language:English
Date:1728
Contributor:Byrd, William, 1674-1744 | Trist, Nicholas Philip, 1800-1874
Subject:Botany | Folklore | Geography | Health | Religion | North Carolina--History | Travel | Virginia--History | Warfare | South Carolina--History
Type:Text
Genre:Maps | Travel narratives
Extent:1 volume
Description: A finished copy, probably earlier than the Westover manuscript, from which this varies slightly. Byrd interpolated into the narrative of his tour remarks on Indian customs, religion, warfare, trade, in addition to observations on his Saponi guides. Several pages added in 1817 in hand of Nicholas Trist. Printed (from Westover manuscript) in Boyd (1929). See also Woodfin (1944).
Collection:The history of the dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina (Mss.975.5.B99h)