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Delaware materials, Documents relating to the Wyoming Controversy

Culture:
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:October 25, 1775; February 3, 1783; March 24, 1786
Contributor:Franklin, John, 1749-1831 | Hamilton, James, 1710-1783
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | Land claims | Warfare | Treaties
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Deeds | Government Documents and Records
Extent:1 letter; 2 documents
Description: Documents provides names of treaty signers of Delaware and the Haudenosaunee given in list from 1684-1783 of Pennsylvania land purchasers. Memorial to Assembly about Treaty of 1736 and land dispute between Pennsylvania and Connecticut. King Hendrick denies sale of Haudenosaunee lands.
Collection:Documents relating to the Wyoming Controversy (Mss.974.8.D65)

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Eastern North America materials, Peter Collinson papers

Language:English
Date:September 20, 1763
Contributor:Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768
Subject:United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763 | Land claims | Government relations | Land tenure | Surveying
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Reports | Government Documents and Records
Extent:2 pages
Description: Proposals for a lasting peace with the Indians. Original in Linnean Society of London. Suggests appointment of a surveyor to determine true boundaries, and the ejection of squatters by force from Indian lands.
Collection:Peter Collinson papers (Mss.Film.629)

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Haudenosaunee materials, Notes on the Six Nations (New York), 1890, successors to the Five Nations which once constituted the League or Confederacy of the Iriquois" [sic]...."

Culture:
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1890
Contributor:Carrington, Henry Beebee, 1824-1912
Subject:Censuses | United States--Census, 1890 | Agriculture | Population | Land tenure | Government relations | Economic conditions
Type:Text
Genre:Reports | Notes | Censuses | Government Documents and Records
Extent:1 volume (251 pages)
Description: Notes taken for the eleventh Census of the U.S., 22nd Division. It lists chiefs, crops, population, diseases, houses, other property and values of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) in New York.
Collection:Notes on the Six Nations (New York), 1890, successors to the Five Nations which once constituted the League or Confederacy of the Iriquois" [sic]...." (Mss.970.4.C23)

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Letters and documents relating to the government service of Jasper Parrish among the Indians of New York state, 1790-1831

Culture:
Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1940
Contributor:Parish, Jasper, 1767-1836 | Newton, Dorothy May Fairbank | Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829
Subject:Indian agents | New York (State)--History | Government relations | Diplomacy | Treaties | Missions | Land tenure | Politics and government | Land claims | Land grants | United States--History--War of 1812 | Warfare
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Biographies | Theses | Correspondence | Maps | Transcriptions | Reports | Instructions | Government Documents and Records
Extent:1 reel
Description: "Letters and documents relating to the government service of Jasper Parrish among the Indians of New York State," compiled and edited by Mrs. Dorothy May Fairbanks Newton, 1940. This Vassar College student thesis contains text written by Newton, transcriptions of letters to and from Parrish [aka Parish, an Indian agent and interpreter] and other documents, and 54 letters and 5 maps pertaining to Indian affairs in New York State. Newton used primary documents found in Vassar College's Jasper Parrish Papers Collection. Originals of both thesis and the primary documents it is based on are at Vassar College.
Collection:Letters and documents relating to the government service of Jasper Parrish among the Indians of New York state, 1790-1831 (Mss.Film.650)

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Selected materials, 1665-1775, on Indian affairs

Culture:
Stockbridge-Munsee
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1665-1775
Contributor:Unknown
Subject:Massachusetts--History | New York (State)--History | New England--History | Treaties | Diplomacy | Boundaries | Warfare | Government relations | Land tenure
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence | Government Documents and Records
Extent:3 reels
Description: Selections from 31 volumes from the Massachusetts State Archives (volumes 1-6, 13, 20-22, 25, 27-33, 35, 38A, 51-54, 74, 80, 108-109, 219, 233, 287). These materials include letters and papers from the official records of provincial Massachusetts. Many relate to the Haudenosaunee in New York, and to French activity and influence among the Indians. Contains references to the treaties at Albany with the Haudenosaunee, the western boundary of Massachusetts, the Stockbridge removal, and the sack of Deerfield by Caughnawaga Mohawks.
Collection:Selected materials, 1665-1775, on Indian affairs (Mss.Film.642)

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Selections from papers relating to the Six Nations, 1789-1820

Culture:
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1789-1820
Contributor:Brant, Joseph, 1742-1807 | Kirkland, Samuel, 1741-1808 | Chapin, Israel | Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 | Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 | Morris, Robert, 1734-1806 | Phelps, Oliver, 1749-1809 | Gorham, Nathaniel, 1738-1796
Subject:Indian agents | Government relations | Politics and government | Treaties | Diplomacy | Missions | New York (State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence | Memoranda | Accounts | Bills | Receipts | Government Documents and Records
Extent:1 reel
Description: These selections include letters, bills, accounts, receipts, memoranda, and official communications and documents relating to the Iroquois [Haudenosaunee] in New York State, selected from volumes 6-15 of O'Reilly's collections, "Mementos of western settlement," together with copies of documents from the American State Papers, etc. Included are letters of Phelps, Gorham, Chapin, Brant, Kirkland, Knox, Pickering, Irvine, and Morris. Many manuscripts appear to be from the papers of General Israel Chapin, an Indian agent. From originals at the New York Historical Society.
Collection:Selections from papers relating to the Six Nations, 1789-1820 (Mss.Film.639)

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Culture(s)

  • Haudenosaunee (5)
  • Mohawk (2)
  • Lenape (1)
  • Seneca (1)
  • Stockbridge-Munsee (1)
  • Tuscarora (1)

Language(s)

  • English (6)

Contributor(s)

  • Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (2)
  • Brant, Joseph, 1742-1807 (1)
  • Carrington, Henry Beebee, 1824-1912 (1)
  • Chapin, Israel (1)
  • Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 (1)
  • Franklin, John, 1749-1831 (1)
  • Gorham, Nathaniel, 1738-1796 (1)
  • Hamilton, James, 1710-1783 (1)
  • Kirkland, Samuel, 1741-1808 (1)
  • Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 (1)
  • Morris, Robert, 1734-1806 (1)
  • Newton, Dorothy May Fairbank (1)
  • Parish, Jasper, 1767-1836 (1)
  • Phelps, Oliver, 1749-1809 (1)
  • Unknown (1)

Subject(s)

  • Government relations (5)
  • Land tenure (4)
  • Treaties (4)
  • Diplomacy (3)
  • Land claims (3)
  • New York (State)--History (3)
  • Warfare (3)
  • Indian agents (2)
  • Missions (2)
  • Politics and government (2)
  • Agriculture (1)
  • Boundaries (1)
  • Censuses (1)
  • Economic conditions (1)
  • Land grants (1)
  • Massachusetts--History (1)
  • New England--History (1)
  • Pennsylvania--History (1)
  • Population (1)
  • Surveying (1)
  • United States--Census, 1890 (1)
  • United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763 (1)
  • United States--History--War of 1812 (1)

Type(s)

  • Text (6)

Genre(s)

  • and (6)
  • Documents (6)
  • Government (6)
  • Records (6)
  • Correspondence (4)
  • Microfilms (4)
  • Reports (3)
  • Accounts (1)
  • Bills (1)
  • Biographies (1)
  • Censuses (1)
  • Deeds (1)
  • Instructions (1)
  • Maps (1)
  • Memoranda (1)
  • Notes (1)
  • Receipts (1)
  • Theses (1)
  • Transcriptions (1)
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