Indian land transfers
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Account of a visit made by Penrose Wiley, John Letchworth, Anne Mifflin, Mary Bell, and others to the Seneca Indians settled on the Allegany River
Collection — Huntington box 39 - folder 1
Identifier: 9001
Scope and content
Original manuscript attributed to Mary Gilbert with description of meeting with Indians at Coldspring, Usqueshanadarqua, and Geneshatago. Includes quotes from Seneca chief Cornplanter and Blue Eyes. Described as the first visit by white women to Geneshatago. Also includes transcript of an excerpt from letter of Charles E. Congdon dated December 20, 1945 mentioning the manuscript, and the original invoice from Dauber & Pine Bookshops. Discussion of the white man using up all the water...
Dates:
1803.
Alvan B. Doolittle papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064927712]
Identifier: 4062
Scope and content
Papers consist of personal and business correspondence; legal documents concerning properties and lawsuit, including records from the years 1857-1859 when Doolittle was a justice of the peace; correspondence and documents concerning Nebraska Territory land agreements with the Omahas (Indians); bills and receipts for lumber (some shipped by canal), horses, and various merchandise; a few insurance policies; some items concerning Granger town and school business; and materials relating to...
Dates:
1837-1893.
William Wallace Tooker papers
Collection
Identifier: 9187
Abstract
Correspondence, memoranda, notes, and other papers, concerning Indian place names on Long Island, N.Y., Coastal Algonquian ethnology, ethnohistory, and linguistics. Notes investigate name origins and discuss how they derive from native languages. Other notes include analysis of early American texts in native languages. Extracts made from Indian land deeds and notes discussing land boundaries also included. Index cards for all the items included.
Dates:
[18--]-1917.