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Culture:
Mohican includes: Mahican, Muhhekunneuw
Language:English
Date:October 10, 1819
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 Letter
Description: Concerning review of his publication in British review--probably a result of Quaker influence. He will make more usable for Du Ponceau a Moravian manuscript on Mohican language (words, phrases, parts of grammars). Discusses mood conveyed in sentence describing one recovered from the dead.
Collection:John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters to Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (Mss.497.3.H35o)
Culture:
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Language:English
Date:1822
Subject:Place names | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Biographies | Correspondence | Maps | Translations
Extent:1 volume
Description: Place names (taken from deeds of conveyance, maps, and narrated by Indians), for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia, together with names and biographies of chiefs and famous men. Translations.
Collection:Names which the Lenni Lenape...had given to rivers, streams, places, etc. (Mss.497.3.H35n)
Culture:
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Language:English
Date:1820
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Vaughn, John, 1756-1841
Subject:Childbirth | Ethnography | Marriage customs and rites | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Corrections
Extent:1 volume
Description: Six editorial corrections to Heckewelder's Account...(1819), with page references, "in case a new edition ever is made." Concerns religion, warfare, marriage and family life, childbirth, swimming, and fears. Never printed. Prepared. for John Vaughan; should be compared with Heckewelder's suggestions in his correspondence with Du Ponceau.
Collection:Notes, amendments, and additions to Heckewelder's account of the Indians (Mss.970.1.H35n)
Culture:
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Mohican includes: Mahican, Muhhekunneuw
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Language:English
Date:1819-1821
Contributor:Dencke, J. (Jeremiah), 1725-1795 | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Sargeant, John, 1710-1749 | Pickering, John, 1737-1805 | White, Samuel | Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 letters
Description: Concerning the printing and distribution of his Dencke was retired from Upper Canada for drinking; Heckewelder can't ask him to do a grammar of the Chippewa using Zeisberger as a model. Discusses Indian vocabularies being collected by Du Ponceau. Sends vocabulary compiled from Carver (C) and Samuel White (S), a Nanticoke. Heckewelder has little knowledge of the Mahicanni [Mohican]; suggests missionary, Sargeant.
Collection:John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters to Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (Mss.497.3.H35o)
Culture:
Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Language:English
Date:March 11, 1818; July 29, 1818
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Horsfield, Timothy, 1708-1773 | Parsons, William, 1701-1757 | Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 letters
Description: Forwards Zeisberger's book and a brief biography of him to the American Philosophical Society. Will send the Historical and Literary Committee papers dealing with Indian affairs, in the hands of Franklin, Weiser, Parsons, and Horsfield. Concerning an article by Zeisberger. Last half of an Onondaga dictionary done approximately 1764. Corrections for his publications. Is forwarding a dictionary, by Zeisberger, of the Indian languages. Part 1 of the dictionary has been found. It is to be returned, and the grammar too. Concerning Heckewelder's attitudes towards Indian cruelty and towards Du Ponceau's rewriting the book.
Collection:John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters to Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (Mss.497.3.H35o)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:December 5, 1819
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Vater | Peale
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Maps | Sketches
Extent:1 Letter
Description: Concerning a publication for Vater on Indians. Concerning a sketch of Indians which Peale might copy. Suggests illustration and map for new edition. Material on the Pequot, etc. Maybe [Peale] will do a sketch for illustration.
Collection:John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters to Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (Mss.497.3.H35o)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:January 11, 1821
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Tecumseh, 1768-1813 | Tenskwatawa, Shawnee Prophet
Subject:Ethnography
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 Letter
Description: Will send copy of his Narrative to Du Ponceau. Regarding his German edition. Data on the Prophet and Tecumseh.
Collection:John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters to Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (Mss.497.3.H35o)
Culture:
Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot
Language:English
Date:July 22, 1816
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 letter
Description: Regarding Wyandot-Huron and Carver.
Collection:John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters to Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (Mss.497.3.H35o)