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Seminole includes: Yat'siminoli
Language:English
Date:1818
Contributor:Young, Hugh, -1822
Subject:Social life and customs | African Americans | Florida--History | Florida--History | Boundaries | Government relations | Population | Trade | Marriage customs and rites | Politics and government | Agriculture | Warfare | Seminole War, 1st, 1817-1818 | Treaties | Diplomacy | Surveying
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Memoirs | Itineraries | Travel narratives
Extent:125 pages
Description: Hugh Young was an army officer and topographical engineer accompanying General Andrew Jackson's army in its operations against the Seminoles. This memoir includes sections on East Florida's boundaries, physical characteristics, navigation, Native customs, Spanish settlements, African Americans, agricultural products, and climate. Also included are itineraries for East and West Florida. One chapter is devoted to the Seminole and other aboriginal inhabitants of Florida, and includes names, numbers, settlements, war and treaties, councils, marriage, trade, amusement, etc. (pages 48-73). Printed, Boyd (1934). Original document owned by Francis W. Rawle, Albany, circa 1954. Also found on this reel is Benjamin Hawkins' Journal of occurrences in the Creek agency from January to the conclusion of the conference and treaty at Fort Williamson, 1802 (Film 692a).
Collection:A topographic memoir on East and West Florida, 1818 (Mss.Film.692b)
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Language:English
Date:June 8, 1785; May 20, 1826; Undated;
Contributor:Elbert, Samuel, 1740-1788 | Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 | Sadiga, Sally
Subject:Georgia--History | Government relations | Boundaries | Linguistics | Land claims | Alabama--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Legal documents | Vocabularies
Extent:3 items
Description: 1) Letter from Elbert to Major General Lachlan McIntosh regarding meeting to ascertain boundary between Creek Indians and Georgia. 2) Letter from Gallatin to Peter S. Du Ponceau sending transcribed vocabularies of Yuchi, Natchez, and Muscogee; also sending a Sioux grammar to Colonel Thomas L. McKenny, Office of Indian Affairs. 3) Legal brief by the plaintiff's attorney in a Creek Indian land dispute before the Supreme Court of Alabama-Sally Sadiga vs. Richard DeMarcus and Peter Hufman.
Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)
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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
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)