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Date:1785-1806
Contributor:Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Subject:Archaeology | Geography | Treaties | Warfare | Graves
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:0.5 Linear feet, 2 boxes; 2 volumes
Description: A manuscript compiled from originals in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania by William L. McAtee. Concerns murder of John Armstrong by Indians; mentions Canestogae tribe, Cayahoga path, Cheerake, Chickasaw, Colonel Cresap; tuberculosis among Indians; Delawares; eloquence; Indian barrows, fortifications, and graves; Kash kask kunck; Mandan; Seneca, Six Nations (Haudenosaunee), and Captain White Eyes. Also Crave Creek mound; Wyandot, Indian sugar camp; war customs and war party; treaty of December 1784 at Fort McIntosh with Chippewa and Wyandots; Indian burning; Indian diseases. Teedyuscung; Penn's treaty with the Delaware (1682 and 1702); meaning of "Geneseo"; Seneca battle with Koghquangians (Caughnawaga); Chickasaw; specimen of a Cayuga vocabulary with same list as that used in Barton (1797).
Collection:Benjamin Smith Barton journals; notebooks (Mss.B.B284.1)
Culture:
Date:1914
Contributor:Beauchamp, William Martin, 1830-1925
Subject:History | Government relations | Personal names | Diplomacy | Treaties | Politics and government | Biography
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Notes | Essays
Extent:1 reel
Description: Collected by William Martin Beauchamp, an Episcopal clergyman, in 1909, these names were taken from treaties, delegations, and other documents and are often accompanied by English translations as well as biographical information. Includes "Sketches of Onondagas of Note," "Names given to whites," and "Names of Iroquois, exclusive of Onondagas." Originals at the Onondaga Historical Association, Syracuse Public Library, Syracuse, NY.
Collection:Papers on Iroquois personal names, 1914 (Mss.Film.643)