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Language:English
Date:November 13, 1766
Contributor:Burd, James, 1726-1793
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | Diplomacy | Treaties
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 pages
Description: Letter to Edward Shippen, Sr., regarding possible treaty with Indians.
Collection:Peale-Sellers Family Collection (Mss.B.P31)
Language:English
Date:circa 1940s
Contributor:Parsons, William, 1701-1757 | Wallace, Anthony F. C., 1923-2015
Subject:Pennsylvania--History
Type:Text
Genre:Biographies
Extent:238 pages, 5 notebooks, 5 folders, 8 spools of microfilm, 1 photograph
Description: "William Parsons, 1701-1757." An unpublished biography of a Pennsylvania soldier, surveyor, and agent for the provincial government. Based largely on the Horsfield Papers, and manuscripts at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and Haverford College. Occasional references to Indian affairs. Research notes. Includes a translation of the Walam Olum different from Rafinesque, Squier, Drake, or Brinton.
Collection:William Parsons material (Mss.B.P252)
Language:English
Date:1749-1769
Contributor:Armstrong, John, 1717-1795 | Barton, Thomas, 1730-1780 | Croghan, George, 1720?-1782 | Morgan, Jacob, 1716-1792 | Parsons, William, 1701-1757 | Penn, Thomas, 1702-1775 | Shippen, Joseph, 1732-1810 | Trent, William, 1715-1787? | Penn, John, 1729-1795 | Weiser, Conrad, 1696-1760 | Peters, William | Galloway, Joseph, 1731-1803 | Masters, William, -1760
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763 | Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 | Diplomacy | Warfare | Fur trade | Indian traders | Land transfers
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Speeches | Resolutions | Minutes | Essays | Reports
Extent:19 items
Description: Various materials relating to Pennsylvania's relations with Native peoples during the Seven Years' War era. Topics include anxieties about the French, especially in Ohio; excursions against French and Indian enemies; raids by French and Indian enemies; trade with Indians and competition from Virginia traders; murders of Native individuals; attempts to treat with Native groups; land negotiations; Native complaints about land seizures; colonial officials trying to understand Native grievances to come to peace; 1759 conference in Pittsburgh; gifts for Native diplomats in Philadelphia.
Collection:Indian and Military Affairs of Pennsylvania, 1737-1775 (Mss.974.8.P19)
Language:English
Date:December 1, 1921
Contributor:Thompson, B. A.
Subject:Arrowheads | Material culture | Anthropology | Archaeology | Specimens
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 page
Description: Letter to Speck sending axehead and arrowheads found in southeastern Pennsylvania.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture:
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:May 19, 1712
Contributor:Pennsylvania. Provincial Council
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | Treaties | Wampum
Type:Text
Genre:Government documents | Minutes
Extent:5 pages
Description: The Pennsylvania Provincial Council Minutes run from 1693 to 1717 and consist of approximately 520 pages of documents. Of note within them is a 5-page manuscript from May 19, 1712, when Delaware (Lenape) chief Sassoonan and 12 members of his nation carried 32 wampum belts to a meeting with the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy). They stopped in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and showed the belts to the British colony’s Provincial Council. This document shows their drawings of each belt’s design and an account of their meaning. This document has been digitized and can be viewed in the collection's finding aid. Some parts of the rest of the minutes may contain other information relating to indigenous peoples. The minutes for 1700-1712 were printed in Hazard's "Register of Pennsylvania" 6 (1830).
Collection:Pennsylvania. Provincial Council. Minutes, 1693-1717 (Mss.974.8.P378)
Language:English
Date:1755-1763
Contributor:Bassee, C. | Horsfield, Timothy, 1708-1773 | Parsons, William, 1701-1757 | Levan, Jacob, 1702-1768 | Trexler, Peter | Barons, Benjamin | Chapman, John | Denny, William, 1718- | Weiser, Conrad, 1696-1760 | Hamilton, James, 1710-1783 | Morris, Robert Hunter, approximately 1700-1764 | Powell, Joseph | Martin, James | Orndt, Jacob | Reynolds, George, 1699 or 1700-1769 | Spangenberg, August Gottlieb, 1704-1792 | Weiser, Conrad, 1696-1760 | Galbreath, James | Westbrook, Adam | McCarthy, James | Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808 | Newcastle, Captain
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | Health | Religion | Trade | Warfare | Military history | Wampum
Type:Text
Extent:56 letters
Description: In sections 1 and 2. Correspondence during the Seven Years' War (1754-1763) regarding Indian attacks on the frontier and attempts to protect friendly Indians. One letter discusses the use of passports by friendly Indians. Mention of a "berserk soldier at Fort Allen behaves indecently among squaws."
Collection:Timothy Horsfield Papers (Mss.974.8.H78)
Culture:
Language:English | Abenaki, Eastern
Date:1821
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:1 volume, 20 p.
Description: This bound volume includes approximately twenty pages of Abenaki words and their English translations compiled by Emma Gardiner of Gardiner, Maine in 1821. Although the origins of this document are not clear, it is possible that Gardiner worked with Abenaki Indians to compile this list. The document contains the annotations and other notes of Peter Du Ponceau.
Collection:Penobscot Indian vocabulary (Mss.497.3.G16)
Language:Abenaki, Eastern | English
Date:circa 1970s
Contributor:Dana, Susie | McKeough, Helen | Pritchard, Evan
Subject:Maine--History | Language study and teaching | Linguistics
Type:Sound recording | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Elicitation sessions | Vocabularies
Extent:1 folder; 12 audiocassettes (4 hr., 47 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Recording of Penobscot Language Master Cards. Also contains the original list of 1255 English words and phrases used in the recordings (47 p,); a phonetic transcription of the corresponding Penobscot for the first 333 cards, made by Evan Pritchard (10 p.); and a letter from Sister Helen McKeough of the Indian Island School to members of the Penobscot Nation explaining the contents of the tapes and circumstances of their recording. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:Penobscot Language Master Cards (Mss.SMs.Coll.14)
Culture:
Wolastoqiyik includes: Wəlastəkwewiyik, Malecite, Maliseet
Wabanaki includes: Wabenaki, Wobanaki
Language:Abenaki, Eastern | English | Maliseet-Passamaquoddy
Date:1933
Contributor:Attean, Mitchell | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
Subject:Linguistics | Orthography and spelling
Type:Text
Genre:Stories | Transcripts | Vocabularies
Extent:50 pages
Description: The Penobscot materials in the ACLS collection consist of a single item in the "Malecite" section of the finding aid. Sapir and Swadesh's "Notes on Penobscot and Malecite" (item A1n.1) primarily consists of Penobscot, with additional Maliseet vocabulary. It contains a Penobscot alphabet, text, and carbon copy of texts from records with interlinear translations, and lexical items on slips. Recorded in part with speaker Mitchell Attean.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1821
Subject:Linguistics | Algonquian languages
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 items
Description: Letters regarding Penobscot language materials at the American Philosophical Society. First item is Du Ponceau to Johann S. Vater requesting publications from Germany concerning Indian languages and mentioning his own manuscript vocabularies, including the Penobscot. Second item is Emma (Tudor) Hallowell Gardiner to William Tudor, transmitting her Penobscot vocabulary, transcribed according to Pickering's orthography, excepting marking to show duplication of l, m, and n.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)