Letters to Jeremiah Evarts concerning the Dwight mission for Cherokees in Arkansas

Collection — huntington box: 36 - folder 1

Identifier: 9202

Scope and content

Negative and positive photostats of one letter from Alfred Finney, August 12, 1824, and two letters from Cephas Washburn October 14 and 27, 1828, to Jeremiah Evarts of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The letters describe conditions at the Dwight mission and the surrounding area or Arkansas. Description of the local settlements and missions on the Arkansas River. Mention of the potential Cherokee removal. One of the Washburn letters encloses a drawing of the mission by Asa Hitchcock.

Dates

1824
1828.

Creator

Evarts, Jeremiah, 1781-1831. (Person)
Hitchcock, Asa. (Person)
Huntington Free Library (Former owner, Organization)

Biographical / Historical

The Dwight mission was named after Timothy Dwight who was president of Yale College. Cephas Washburn was from Vermont and he traveled to Arkansas in 1820 with Alfred Finney. Finney married Washburn's sister, Susanna.