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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)
Culture:
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Language:English
Date:1810
Contributor:Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859
Subject:Mounds | Michigan--History | Botany | Trade | Travel | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Diaries
Extent:1 volume, 121 p., photostat
Description: Thomas Nuttall's travel narrative tracks his journey from Philadelphia to Detroit during the spring and summer of 1810. Nuttall makes a range of observations, including discussions of the weather, plant life, rivers, and the various people he meets, including Native peoples. The last portion of the narrative, which takes place around Detroit, from which he set out by canoe for Michilimackinac, discusses Indians a fair amount – their history in the area, the various groups he met (Chippewa in particular), and their customs.
Collection:Thomas Nuttall diary (Mss.B.N96)