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Date:1762-1788
Contributor:Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Cadet-de-Vaux, Antoine-Alexis, 1743-1828 | Frederick, Father | Jackson, Richard, -1787 | Dartmouth, William Legge, Earl of, 1731-1801
Subject:Diplomacy | Corn | Social life and customs | Missions
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Declarations
Extent:7 items
Description: Materials include letters with French correspondents regarding Franklin's Remarks on the Savages, Cadet de Vaux's proposed essay on Indian corn, and Father Frederick's missionary work; a letter regarding Sir William Johnson and Indian affairs; an essay by an unknown auther objecting to backcountry settlement; and a declaration of a charitable trust established by the Earl of Dartmouth and Trustees in England of the Indian Charity School in Connecticut. Individuals mentioned include Samson Occom, Whittaker, John Wheelock, Sir William Johnson.
Collection:Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss.B.F85)
Culture:
Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot
Susquehannock includes: Conestoga
Date:Undated
Contributor:Wallace, Paul A. W. | Potier, Pierre-Philippe, 1708-1781
Subject:Linguistics | Jesuits | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France) | Warfare | Politics and government | Diplomacy
Type:Text
Genre:Essays | Vocabularies
Extent:2 items
Description: Materials relating to Paul A. W. Wallace's interest in Wyandot (Huron) language, history, and culture. Items include Wallace's 8-page "Who Were the Hurons' Allies of 1615?" in which he concludes that the unnamed allies who were to aid Champlain and the Hurons probably were Susquehannocks; and eighteenth-century missionary Pierre-Philippe Potier's Huron-French vocabulary, from a document possibly in the archives of St. Mary's College, Montreal.
Collection:Paul A. W. Wallace Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.64b)