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Manuscript Collection: Hope Holway

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Identifier: MC.1970.100
Collection Overview

Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Research material

Dates: 20th century

Manuscript Collection: Indian Slave Documents

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.107
Collection Overview

Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: A Bostonian, William Marshall, writes for Captain Richard Walker of Nova Scotia in 1668 asking that a run­away slave boy be returned to Walker. The second item is a bill of sale dated 1750 for an Indian boy "called Newe'sock aged about nine years of age" for thirty pounds.

Dates: 1668-1750

Manuscript Collection: Indian Spies' Report

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.108
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: This letter came from the library of Sir R. Leicester Harmsworth and was sold at a public auction from Sotheby and Company in 1948. It is described as follows: "Examination of some Indians in Relation to ye condition of ye French in Canada, at a Meeting of the Comm. for managing the Indian Affairs in Albany, 21 June 1709, contemporary MS., 3 pp. folio." It is a report of the "Indian Spies" who had been sent into Canada to see...
Dates: 1709

Manuscript Collection: Isaac B. Hitchcock

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.96
Collection Overview

Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Appointment of D.D. Hitchcock as Assistant Surgeon of the Second Indian Regiment of Guards at Bentonville, Arkansas. Signed by Major M.B.C. Wright, as Commander of the Regiment.

Dates: 1847-1863

Manuscript Collection: Isaac McCoy

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Identifier: MC.1970.137
Collection Overview

Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Unsigned notes on Isaac McCoy's tour from Harmony Mission into Indian Territory with Pottawatomie and Ottawa Tribes. [The use of the pronouns I and we suggest it was written by McCoy. There is also a typescript of the notes.]

Dates: 1828

Manuscript Collection: J. Rhett Motte

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Identifier: MC.1964.149
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Dr. J. Rhett Motte was a surgeon in the U.S. Army and these are a few papers written by him. In this collection is his commission as assistant surgeon of the 16th Regiment Infantry, 4th Brigade, 2nd Division, So. Carolina Militia, dated 1846. In 1842 he was at Ft. Gibson, Indian Territory, and an account book kept by him at that time is also included here. Interesting item: Probably the most important document is a journal...
Dates: 1836-1846

Manuscript Collection: Jackson Barnett

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Identifier: MC.1954.14
Collection Overview

Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Jackson Barnett (1852-1934) was a wealthy Creek Indian, concerning whose estate there was a great deal of litigation. These papers concern that litigation and the determination of his heirs. One page (typescript) is a short biography of Jackson Barnett from which the dates 1852 - 1934 were taken.

Dates: 1937-1939

Manuscript Collection: James Greene Walker

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Identifier: MC.1964.209
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Dr. James Greene Walker (n.d.), a circuit minister of the Methodist Church stationed at Tahlequah in the Cherokee Nation, is the writer of five diaries. The first one, written 1861-1863, is a transcript "by A. G. Sexton of New York, from Graham Shorthand, old style." The other diaries, 1875, '76, '78, and '80-81, are in small notebooks written with an indelible pencil. Walker was transferred to Texas in 1867 and the diaries...
Dates: 1861-1881

Manuscript Collection: James H. Lane

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Identifier: MC.1954.121
Collection Overview

Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: James H. Lane (1814-1866) writes a letter to Secretary E. M. Stanton which is signed also by Senator James Harlan. He says, "Saw Gen. Grant Saturday night-he has no objection to this change." The change would allow all the Indian troops to go home to raise crops for their families. The letter is dated February 13. James Lane was a member, perhaps an officer, of the Union guerrillas of Kansas called "Red Legs."

Dates: February 13, 1865

Manuscript Collection: James Jackson

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.110
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: These letters pertain to the cession of Indian lands to the State of Georgia and from Georgia to the U.S. Government in 1802. At least one of them is addressed to Gov. Josiah Tattnall, Jr. James Jackson (1757-1806) was governor of Georgia from 1798 to 1801. Following his term, he became a commissioner for the State of Georgia under Governor Tattnall and served in this capacity with Abraham Baldwin and John Milledge....
Dates: 1797-1802

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