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Manuscript Collection: John M. Armstrong
Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.7
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: John M. Armstrong (n.d.) was an attorney for the Wyandotte Tribe. The papers are the type a lawyer would leave, concerning Wyandotte tribal matters in Ohio, Kansas, Indiana, etc. They pertain largely to claims against the United States. The papers also include business matters of Armstrong. Later papers are concerned with the division in the Methodist Church, North and South. Some deal with his wife's (Lucy Bigelow) efforts on...
Dates:
1833-1890
Manuscript Collection: John Nicks
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.157
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Many of these papers concern the description and disposal of lands which were once a part of Lovely, Crawford, Rogers, and certain other counties in Arkansas after the Treaty of March 23, 1828, between the U.S. Government and the Cherokee Indians. This part of Arkansas became what is now the Fort Gibson area and from there on north to the Kansas and Missouri borders. Together with these papers are many giving power of attorney...
Dates:
1824-1885
Manuscript Collection: John Oliver Shaw
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.196
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: This is a four page letter written by Shaw to his mother from San Francisco in 1853. Some of its contents is a report on the "filibustering expedition," then seemingly successful, to capture the State of Sonora.
Dates:
1853
Manuscript Collection: John Ross Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.185
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: John Ross (1790-1866) chief of the First Indian Republic, was principal chief of the Cherokees during the time of the Removal , establishment of the Cherokee Nation, and until his death. During the Civil War he split with the Cherokees who favored the Southern cause and ruled in exile after 1863 from Philadelphia. The collection contains correspondence, proclamation as chief of the Cherokee Tribe, legal papers, records,...
Dates:
[no date]
Manuscript Collection: John Stuart
Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.201
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Captain John Stuart ( -1838) of Company C, 7th Regiment , U. S. Army, originally from Kentucky, spent most of his life in Indian Territory, serving in the army at Fort Gibson, Fort Smith, and Fort Coffee. The latter was established by him in 1833. This eleven page letter, written on June 18, 1836, to Adjutant General R. Jones, from Fort Coffee, discusses the situation of the troops in Arkansas Territory. In 1838 he established...
Dates:
1836
Manuscript Collection: John Trumbull
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.204
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Colonel John Trumbull (1756-1843), a soldier and aide to Gen. George Washington, was a portrait painter during the Revolutionary and Federalist periods. This slender volume, similar to a scrapbook, contains two letters written and signed by John Trumbull: one to Richard Rush regarding the death of Benjamin West, and the other to Sir Thomas Lawrence congratulating him as president of the Royal Academy, succeeding West. Another...
Dates:
1820-1831
Manuscript Collection: John W. Swain
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.202
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: This collection of papers contains a declaration of citizenship to John W. Swain in the Cherokee Nation (1882), a letter signed by D.W. Bushyhead, Principal Chief of the Cherokees, a letter to Rebecca Swain from Senator Robert Owen, letters regarding family matters, a divorce decree, bills of sale, etc.
Dates:
1857-1911
Manuscript Collection: John Wesley Powell
Collection
Identifier: MC.1970.179
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Painted letter (hand addressed and signed) from J.W. Powell to W. Eakes in New York Includes an abstract of transactions of the Anthropological Society of Washington, D.C., 1880-1881.
Dates:
April 24, 1866
Manuscript Collection: Johnathan Williams
Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.222
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Jonathan Williams (1750-1815), a grand nephew of Benjamin Franklin, was a diplomat, business man, army officer and engineer. He was with Franklin in Paris and Superintendent of West Point 1805-12. This circular letter of the Military Philosophical Society announces the annual meeting and the agenda of business to be conducted. Williams was president of the society at that time.
Dates:
1813
Manuscript Collection: Joseph Galloway
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.72
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: This is a message to the Governor of Pennsylvania from Galloway as Speaker of the Assembly. The Assembly takes exception to the Governor's request for a garrison at Fort Pitt to protect the inhabitants of the back country from the Indians and refuses for fear of stirring up trouble among the Indians. At one point in the letter, it reads: "We might offer other Reasons for not concurring in Sentiments with your Honor, on the...
Dates:
February 19, 1773
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