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Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Language:French
Date:1691
Contributor:Lindeström, Peter Mårtensson, 1632-1691
Subject:Colonies | Expeditions | New Sweden | Place names | Pennsylvania--History
Type:Text
Extent:20 pages
Description: Copy, of chapter 5 only, made from the original Swedish manuscript in the Royal Archives. Gives place names and description of settlements along the Delaware and adjoining creeks; Place names and some historical information, as well as the fabulous. Meant to accompany Lindestrom's map, a copy of which was presented with this manuscript.
Collection:New Sweden Records (Mss.974.8.Sw2)
Language:French
Date:1783
Contributor:Mandrillon, Joseph, 1743-1794
Subject:Expeditions
Type:Text
Genre:Essays
Extent:127 pages
Description: This small leather bound volume contains an essay by APS member Joseph Mandrillon, prepared for the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Lyon. The essay discusses the discovery of America, early exploration, and colonization. It is written in French. Joseph Mandrillon was a French businessman and writer elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1785. This essay was printed, with slight changes, in Le Spectateur américain ou remarques générales sur l'Amérique septentrionale et sur la république des Treize États-Unis (Amsterdam, 1784).
Collection:Recherches philosophiques sur la découverte de l'Amérique, 1783 (Mss.973.1.M31)