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Native American collection, 1688-1921

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The Native American collection contains miscellaneous letters and documents concerning Native American Indians in the United States, Canada, and the West Indies, and their interactions with British and American settlers.

The Native American collection is comprised of approximately 125 miscellaneous letters and documents concerning Native American Indians in the United States, Canada, and the West Indies, and their interactions with British and American settlers (1689-1921). Topics range from land agreements, legal issues, treaties, descriptions of travel through Indian Territory, Indian uprisings and conflicts, Indian captivities, prisoners of war, Indian enslavement, and interactions with Quaker and Moravian missionaries. Tribes include the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cree, Iroquois, Ojibwa, Oneida, Ottawa, Kickapoo, Seneca, Shawnee, Sioux, among others, and concern activities in Canada, New England, the Midwest, the South, and the western frontier. Also present are items written in Cherokee, Mohawk, and Ojibwa.

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. Tho[mas] Dongan LS to the Sheriff of Ulster County [Henry Pawling]; Fort James, [New York]., 1688 May 7; 1688 May 19

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Calling the sheriff to gather Native Americans to help defend Albany." ...call together all ye Indyan men within your county & cause such of them as are able to bear armes to cause to Repair with all convenient speed to his Majties ffort at Albany there to Joyne with and assist the other Indyans of this Province in prosecuton of ye present Ware."Asks the sheriff to make a return to the Secretary's Office and to include names of Native Americans that "shall Refuse or deley to Conforme themselves hereunto."Includes a note signed by Henry Pawling, High Sheriff of Ulster County, attesting to his having gathered Native Americans "and finde the younge men willing to assist … and promise to march towards ye forte at Albany ye next Satterdaye."
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. William Stoughton LS to Francis Hooke; Boston, Massachusetts., 1694 December 7

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Regarding King William's War: "Forasmuch as there is an Expedition intended for their Majties Service against the Indian Enemy and Rebels within the Eastern parts of this Province, and Advised by the Council, That there be a detachment of a Company of Fifty or Sixty able Souldiers out of the County of Yorke … Pursuant thereto I order that you forthwith List in their Majties Service and under their pay, the above number of men … You are also to draw home the Ten men, which you sent by order into ye Province of New Hampshire for the Enforceing of ye Posts within your County … "
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. Jonathan Glading ADS to John Watterman; Bristol, [Rhode Island]., 1742 February 23

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Request for payment for a table and coffin for a deceased Native American; "be plesd to pay to Mr Rogers Richman Sixteen Shillings which is due to me for a table that you had of me … I desire you to tell your wifes father to Send me that twenty Shillings which he promust me for the coffin that i made for the ingon that came to bristol...and dide at toms wigwom..."
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