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Susquehannock includes: Conestoga
Language:English
Date:January 14, 1858
Subject:Geography | History | Place names
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 letter
Description: Is writing a history of the Susquehannocks. Concerning possible publication of work on Place names.
Collection:Matthew Schropp Henry Correspondence on Indian Names (Mss.497.3.H39)
Language:English
Date:1728
Contributor:Byrd, William, 1674-1744 | Trist, Nicholas Philip, 1800-1874
Subject:Botany | Folklore | Geography | Health | Religion | North Carolina--History | Travel | Virginia--History | Warfare | South Carolina--History
Type:Text
Genre:Maps | Travel narratives
Extent:1 volume
Description: A finished copy, probably earlier than the Westover manuscript, from which this varies slightly. Byrd interpolated into the narrative of his tour remarks on Indian customs, religion, warfare, trade, in addition to observations on his Saponi guides. Several pages added in 1817 in hand of Nicholas Trist. Printed (from Westover manuscript) in Boyd (1929). See also Woodfin (1944).
Collection:The history of the dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina (Mss.975.5.B99h)
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Language:English
Date:1948
Contributor:Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Subject:Geography | Indian captivities | Missions | Travel | Warfare
Type:Text
Genre:Bibliographies | Captivity narratives
Extent:392 leaves
Description: Catalogue and notes prepared by Charles Marius Barbeau of holdings of Time Stone Farm, Marlborough, Mass., owned and collected by Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood. Data on house and its contents, and bibliography of books, including some 60 Indian captivities, books on place names, Indian wars, Indian missions, travels, colonial history pertaining to New England and Canada. Extensive reading notes included.
Collection:Time Stone Farm and the collections of an old New England homestead (Mss.016.9701.G842b)
Language:English
Date:circa 1924
Subject:Expeditions | Grand Canyon (Ariz.)--History | Arizona--History | Surveying | Geology | Geography
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Diaries
Extent:56 pages
Description: Diary titled "Through the canyon of the Colorado with John Wesley Powell," prepared from shorthand notes in 1903; with marginal notes by Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, circa 1924. Brief reference to the Ute Indians and to the Navajo. Original in the New York Public Library.
Collection:John Wesley Powell correspondence and diary, 1871-1907 (Mss.Film.736.1)