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Culture:
Susquehannock includes: Conestoga
Language:English
Date:1763-1764
Contributor:Shippen, Edward, approximately 1703-1781
Subject:Paxton Boys | Pennsylvania--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 items
Description: Two letters to Joseph Shippen and one to Reverend Elder regarding massacre of the Susquehannock Indians by colonists in December 1763, and subsequent murder of those kept in workhouse for safekeeping.
Collection:Edward Shippen letters and papers (Mss.B.Sh62)
Culture:
Susquehannock includes: Conestoga
Language:English
Date:1701-1730
Contributor:Norris, Isaac, 1701-1766 | Penn, William, 1644-1718 | Logan, James, 1674-1751 | Penn, Thomas, 1702-1775 | Penn, John, 1700-1746 | Penn, Richard, 1706-1771
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | Maryland--History | Diplomacy | Treaties | Land transfers
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:5 items
Description: Correspondence regarding Isaac Norris's visit to Susquehannock; Susquehannock Indians' efforts to seek help from Maryland instead of Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania relations with Susquehannocks; Penn family's effort to secure Susquehanna to Pennsylvania.
Collection:Selections from the correspondence of the Honourable James Logan, 1699-1750 (Mss.B.L82)
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Language:English
Date:1848-2004, bulk 1961-1968
Contributor:Abler, Thomas S., (Thomas Struthers), 1941-2019
Type:Text | Still Image
Genre:Correspondence | Microfilms | Notebooks | Dissertations | Calendars | Newsletters | Reports | Field notes | Interviews
Extent:3 linear feet
Description: This collection contains documentation of the formation of the Seneca Nation of Indians in the 19th century as well as the protest to and aftermath of the construction of the Kinzua Dam that flooded Seneca land.
Collection:Thomas Abler Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.277)
Culture:
Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:March 12, 1768
Contributor:Shippen, Joseph, 1706-1793
Subject:Pennsylvania--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 pages
Description: Letter to William Blythe regarding Tuscarora Indians visiting Blythe on Susquehanna are not to be detained in light of recent murder of Indians.
Collection:Edward Shippen letters and papers (Mss.B.Sh62)
Culture:
Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot
Language:English
Date:1755
Contributor:Morris, Robert Hunter, approximately 1700-1764
Subject:Braddock's Campaign, 1755 | Pennsylvania--History | United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763 | Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 | Warfare
Type:Text
Genre:Speeches
Extent:4 pages
Description: Speech to the Wyandots after General Braddock's defeat, telling them to wait for new plans.
Collection:Indian and Military Affairs of Pennsylvania, 1737-1775 (Mss.974.8.P19)
Culture:
Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot
Language:English
Date:October 3, 1750
Contributor:Peters, Richard, 1704-1776
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 pages
Description: Has heard from Professor Calm [i.e., Peter Kalm] that neither French nor British Indians will permit English to build a fort on Mississippi. Suggests using Wyandots in securing balance of power between two Indian groups.
Collection:Selections from the correspondence of the Honourable James Logan, 1699-1750 (Mss.B.L82)