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Culture:
Choctaw includes: Chahta
Date:before 1784
Contributor:Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816 | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:8 pages
Description: The Choctaw materials in this collection consist of manuscripts listed in the finding aid as item 2, Benjamin Hawkins' "Vocabulary of the Cherokee and Choctaw languages," communicated by Jefferson, with note in his hand attributing authorship to Benjamin Hawkin.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection (Mss.497.V85)
Language:English
Date:December 30, 1817
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:1 letter
Description: Transmits remains of his Indian vocabularies and his manuscript memoir on Louisiana, giving circumstances of its composition.
Collection:Chronological series of facts relating to Louisiana, its limits and bounds (Mss.973.4.J35c)
Date:1792, 1819, and undated
Contributor:Bromley, Walter | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Holm, John Campanius | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Madison, James, 1751-1836
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:14 pages
Description: The Lenape (or "Delaware") materials in this collection consist of manuscript vocabularies listed in the finding aid as items 17, 20, 21, 22a, 22b, 35, and 37. These include a word list recorded by James Madison, sometimes attributed to Thomas Jefferson, from unnamed Lenape speakers at the Brotherton Indian Reservation ("Edgpiiluk") in New Jersey in 1792. Also included is a comparative word list by Heckewelder and Du Ponceau's translation of a word list recorded by Campanius.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection (Mss.497.V85)
Culture:
Date:1980-1986
Contributor:Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Masthay, Carl | Pentland, David H. | Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998
Subject:Linguistics | Religion | Demographics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Dictionaries | Vocabularies | Censuses | Grammars
Description: The Mohican materials in the Siebert Papers consists primarily of secondary sources in Series IV and VII. Siebert's work on Mohican langage can be found in Series V. Of special interest is "Mahican Writings from the Moravian Archives" and vocabulary copied from Thomas Jefferson's word list.
Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)
Culture:
Unkechaug includes: Unquachog
Date:1791
Contributor:Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Subject:Linguistics | New York (State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:2 pages
Description: The Unkechaug materials in this collection consist of manuscripts listed in the finding aid as item 14 listed in the finding aid, a "Vocabulary of the Unquachog Indians," recorded directly by Thomas Jefferson at the "Pusspátock settlement in the town of Brookhaven, S. side of Long Island."
Collection:American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection (Mss.497.V85)
Culture:
Unkechaug includes: Unquachog
Date:1994
Contributor:Masthay, Carl | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Subject:New York (State)--History | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:11 p.
Description: The Unkechaug materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 1 item. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See folder listed under Masthay, titled "Analyses of Vocabularies Collected by Thomas Jefferson", containing an analysis of a vocabulary collected by Jefferson in 1791.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1805
Contributor:Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:6 pages
Description: Mutilated, handwritten copy of Jefferson's printed vocabulary list with Caddo words written according to French orthography. Transmitted to Jefferson in 1805 [see Sibley to Jefferson, August 27, 1805].
Collection:Vocabulary of the Caddoquies language (Mss.497.J35)