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Culture:
Miami includes: Myaamiaki
Language:English
Date:September 20, 1753
Contributor:Levers, Robert | Parsons, William, 1701-1757
Subject:Pennsylvania--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 letter
Description: In section 1:23. 60 "heads of Twightwees, etc." on way to Carlisle to negotiate with Governor of Pennsylvania.
Collection:Timothy Horsfield Papers (Mss.974.8.H78)
Culture:
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:July 31, 1745
Contributor:Logan, James, 1674-1751
Subject:Diplomacy | Pennsylvania--History | New York (State)--History | Land claims | Land transfers
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 pages
Description: Letter to Governor Thomas regarding Conrad Weiser's visit to Mohawks; necessary to avoid slighting them over their lands.
Collection:Selections from the correspondence of the Honourable James Logan, 1699-1750 (Mss.B.L82)
Culture:
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Language:English
Date:November 2, 1755
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | Religion | Warfare
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 letter
Description: In section 1:37-41. Encloses examination of two of the United Brethren upon their return from preaching, respecting an attack made by the French Mohawk near the Susquehanna on October 20.
Collection:Timothy Horsfield Papers (Mss.974.8.H78)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1742
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | Maryland--History | Diplomacy | Treaties | Ohio--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:4 items
Description: An undated letter from Governor Ogle of Maryland to Governor Thomas of Pennsylvania regarding Maryland's renewed friendship with Nanticokes. Two 1742 letters by James Logan regarding Nanticokes imprisoned for conspiring with Shawnees, Shawnee intentions, treaty with Haudenosaunee, and neutrality of "Canada Indians." 1742 letter from Governor Thomas to Shawnee headmen Cacowachico and Nochiconna regarding Nanticokes, obligations due to chain of friendship and memory of William Penn.
Collection:Selections from the correspondence of the Honourable James Logan, 1699-1750 (Mss.B.L82)
Culture:
Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Blackfoot includes: Niitsítapi, Blackfeet
Language:English
Date:1920-1965
Contributor:Wallace, Paul A. W. | Lingelbach, William E. (William Ezra), 1871-1962 | Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Subject:Medicine | Pennsylvania--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Drafts | Essays | Lectures | Notes
Extent:4 items
Description: Materials on miscellaneous or general topics relating to Paul A. W. Wallace's interest in Native North American histories and cultures. Items include Wallace's correspondence with Francisco Guerra and R. Jerrel Williams regarding references pertaining to Indian medicine; notes on and different versions of a talk titled "Debt We Owe the Indian" given by Wallace at Farmers' Forum, York, Pennsylvania, the Madison Historical Society, New Jersey, etc.; Wallace's correspondence with William Ezra Lingelbach regarding Wallace's research on John Heckewelder, the Muhlenberg family, Indians of Pennsylvania, the Haudenosaunee, collections in the Library of the American Philosophical Society, Cree, Blackfoot, etc.; and Wallace's correspondence with Charles Marius Barbeau concerning a wide range of topics such as French-Canadian folklore, Edward Ahenakew's Manebogo manuscript, Conrad Weiser and the Delawares, the American Philosophical Society, Barbeau's Huron-Wyandot work, filming of the Contrecoeur papers and Huron grammars at Seminaire de Quebec, and Richard Pilant and the founding of an international Institute of Iroquoian Studies.
Collection:Paul A. W. Wallace Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.64b)
Culture:
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Language:English
Date:October 20, 1764; April 6, 1765; August 21, 1767; February 22, 1796;
Contributor:Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Barnsley, Thomas, -1771 | Dixon, Jeremiah | Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806
Subject:Surveying | Pennsylvania--History | Antiquities
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:4 items
Description: Relavent materials can be found in the finding aid under the specific dates listed. Correspondence between Gates and Barnsley regarding attacks by Indians, concern for convoys to Fort Pitt, and seizure of goods by country people, 1764-1765. Letter from Dixon to James Burd authorizing two Indians to return home, and referring them to Sir William Johnson for pay, 1767. Letter from Barton to John G. E. Heckewelder with questions about Indian artifacts, mica, color of Indian children at birth, etc, 1796. Other individuals mentioned include George Croghan.
Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)
Culture:
Susquehannock includes: Conestoga
Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1703-1745
Contributor:Logan, James, 1674-1751 | Thomas, George, 1695?-1774
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | Virginia--History | New York (State)--History | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France) | United States--History--King George's War, 1744-1748 | Diplomacy | Treaties
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:4 items
Description: 1703 letter to William Penn regarding Jemmy le Tort, who had gone with Louis Lemoine in 1701; French have sent priest to the Onondagoes and New York's request to send away the priest has been refused. Indian Harry not around. Three later letters, 1737-1745 regarding Onondagas treating with Virginia;Conrad Weiser's importance to Indian affairs; neutrality of Onondagas in war between Britain and France; Shawnees led by Peter Chartier have robbed British traders and gone over to French.
Collection:Selections from the correspondence of the Honourable James Logan, 1699-1750 (Mss.B.L82)
Culture:
Wenrohronon includes: Wenro
Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot
Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'
Tutelo includes: Yesan
Susquehannock includes: Conestoga
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Saponi includes: Saponny
Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka
Odawa includes: Ottawa
Piscataway includes: Conoy
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Language:English
Date:1957
Contributor:Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967
Subject:Pennsylvania--History
Type:Text
Genre:Reports
Extent:20 pages
Description: The Pennsylvania Indians materials, John Alden Mason Papers include a document written for the Pennsylvania Historical Commission, regarding the Delaware, Susquehannock, Erie, Wenrohronon, Honniasont, and the transitory Mohegan, Seneca, Oneida, Wyandot, Ottawa, Tuscarora, Saponi, Tutelo, Nanticokes, Conoy, Shawnee, and Munsee.
Collection:John Alden Mason Papers (Mss.B.M384)
Language:English
Date:November 14, 1741
Contributor:Breintnall, Joseph, d. 1746
Subject:Pennsylvania--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence
Extent:1 page
Description: Letter to Peter Collinson from original in the Linnean Society of London concerning a family of Pennsylvania Indians reduced to cannibalism by starvation.
Collection:Peter Collinson papers (Mss.Film.629)
Language:English
Date:1749-1769
Contributor:Armstrong, John, 1717-1795 | Barton, Thomas, 1730-1780 | Croghan, George, 1720?-1782 | Morgan, Jacob, 1716-1792 | Parsons, William, 1701-1757 | Penn, Thomas, 1702-1775 | Shippen, Joseph, 1732-1810 | Trent, William, 1715-1787? | Penn, John, 1729-1795 | Weiser, Conrad, 1696-1760 | Peters, William | Galloway, Joseph, 1731-1803 | Masters, William, -1760
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763 | Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 | Diplomacy | Warfare | Fur trade | Indian traders | Land transfers
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Speeches | Resolutions | Minutes | Essays | Reports
Extent:19 items
Description: Various materials relating to Pennsylvania's relations with Native peoples during the Seven Years' War era. Topics include anxieties about the French, especially in Ohio; excursions against French and Indian enemies; raids by French and Indian enemies; trade with Indians and competition from Virginia traders; murders of Native individuals; attempts to treat with Native groups; land negotiations; Native complaints about land seizures; colonial officials trying to understand Native grievances to come to peace; 1759 conference in Pittsburgh; gifts for Native diplomats in Philadelphia.
Collection:Indian and Military Affairs of Pennsylvania, 1737-1775 (Mss.974.8.P19)