Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: As representatives of the Narraganset Indians, Samuel Niles and James Niles present a petition to the "Council of War," the beginning of which reads: "To the Honorable Nicholas Cooke Esq. Governor and Commander in Chief, in and over the State of Rhode Island." The petition protests the leasing of farm lands to anyone not a member of the Narraganset Tribe and asks that the problem be referred to the General Assembly. The...

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Memorial by citizens of New Mexico. Petitioning President Andrew Johnson and others to permit retention of two regiments of New Mexico volunteers for at least two years to subjugate Comanches, Navajos, Apaches, and Utahs [in English and Spanish].

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: Invitation to presidential Inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson, and the Program of the Inauguration Ceremonies for President Woodrow Wilson. Invitations from Vice President and Mrs. Marshall for Senator and Mrs. John F. Nugent to attend an event at the Library of Congress and one from Mrs. Garner to Mrs. Nugent to attend a luncheon for Mrs. Roosevelt. Sympathy Card and envelope from Vice President and Mrs. Thomas R....

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Listed under the heading of "Six Nations," these papers all pertain to the Indians of the Iroquois Confederacy. Most of these items are listed individually in the Guide book; for further reference see: Hyde manuscript Iroquois Treaty, 1723 Mahomet Letter Onondaga-Meriam letters Joseph Martin, Indian Agent.

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: John Winthrop (1587-1649) was Governor of Massachusetts Colony from 1631-33, and 1638-39. This document is a petition to the Governor by the Military Company of Concord requesting the appointment of Lieutenant Willard as captain and Joseph Wheeler or Timothy Wheeler as ensign. The petition is signed by twenty-five members of the company.

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Memorial and Petition signed by 6 Eastern and 4 Western Cherokee Chiefs to Congress asking for a delay of the Treaty of New Echota and investigation of their assertions. (Moulton) Sheets of paper with handwritten text in ink. Folder 210

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Memorial and Petition signed [printed January 15, by Chief John Ross and Edward Gunter] Samuel Gunter, James Brown, Elijah Hicks, Richard Taylor, Sitewakee, and White Path Cherokee delegation to United States Congress. [Moulton]. Folder 275.

Guidebook to Manuscripts Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: These are miscellaneous, mostly important, papers relating to Creek tribal affairs. In 1782 Governor Martin held a conference at Savannah with the Tallahassee King and the Headmen and Warriors of the Upper and Lower Creek Nations. In addition to three documents concerning this conference, there are "talks" by John Crutchfield, who could not attend the original "talk," sent to the governor by George Walton, saying that the...

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Petition of Fr. Álvaro de Figueroa to be admitted as qualificator.

English title/description created by Clevy Lloyd Strout, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Tulsa, 1962. English title translated to Spanish by Travis Jeffries, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Fellow, Helmerich Center for American Research, 2019-2020.