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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Peter M. Carter, Alderman of the City of New York and Judge of the Court of Common Pleas , makes affidavit that Joseph, a mulatto twenty-five years old, has always been and is now adjudged a free man according to the laws of the State of New York.

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Peter Perkins Pitchlynn, Chief of the Choctaws, (1806-1881) was one of the persons selected by the Choctaws in 1828 to survey the southeast section of Indian Territory, the land they had chosen for their home when they were forced to leave Mississippi. Peter Pitchlynn's father was John Pitchlynn, a white man and interpreter for the United States Government, who had married a Choctaw woman of the famous Folsom family. Peter...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Smithsonian ethnologist, James Mooney, writes two letters pertaining to a bill before Congress to prohibit the use of Peyote in the Indian ceremonial dances. Most of the correspondence and printed material deal with this subject. A great many letters are between missionaries of the American Baptist Home Missionary Society and most of them feel that Mooney encourages the continued use of Peyote. They blame him for his attitude...

Collection Overview (Biographical material and acquisitions list added in 1967). Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: The Journal of the 7th Cavalry's Yellowstone Expedition of 1876, correspondence with Theodore W. Goldin, E. A. Brininstool, and others comprise this collection. (See also Benteen-Goldin letters under "Benteen.") Dr. Cole (c.1890-1940), a retired physician, and former president of A. Schrader and Sons Manufacturing Company, lived in Tarrytown, New York, on the Cole...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Entitled "Peter Pond and William Steedman's communications to the Secretary of War, 1792," this is a report of their journey to Niagara, their experiences among the New York Indians, principally the Onondagas, Senecas, and Oneidas, and their account of a council meeting at Buffalo. Attached to this report is a communication from the Governor of the Western Territory made in 1788 regarding settlement of the Indian Tribes north...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Letter from P.W. Humphrey to Charles Cassady in Washington, reporting George Colbert's assertion in 1812 that U.S. would have "War Enough" because warriors from Northern Tribes had passed through Chickasaw lands to see Creeks, and a party of Creek warriors returning from North had killed five or six whites near mouth of Duck River. Also informs that representative Johnson and Gen. Desha know for a fact that Tecumseh was not at...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Ranald S. Mackenzie (1840-1889), a graduate of West Point and a general in the U.S. Army, participated in many battles of the Civil War. After the war he was transferred to the South and Southwest, accepting a lower rank, and took a leading part in the campaign against marauding Indians in the early 1870's. As a result of his efforts, large areas in Texas were opened for permanent settlement. Later he was transferred to Indian...

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: A notebook listing disbursements, some of which are to Indians. Henry's name is entered under the first item.

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: In a typewritten account, Mrs. John Schoenborn relates some biographical information concerning Narcissa Owen, mother of Robert L. Owen (1856-1947), U.S. Senator from Oklahoma 1907-1925. Brief notes about John and Rebecca Swain are also in this file, but the dates given for Rebecca Swain are obviously in error. There is a brief letter written by Senator Owen to F. C. Adair encouraging him to "form a good club" (Democratic). A...