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Brant, Joseph, 1742-1807. Draper manuscripts: Joseph Brant papers, 1710-1879.

Title: Draper manuscripts: Joseph Brant papers, 1710-1879.

Papers concerning Joseph Brant, a Mohawk chief who served as a British officer during the American Revolution, including material on that war and Indian-White conflicts, Brant's life, his relatives, and descendants.

ArchivalResource: 4.4 c.f. (22 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173701785 View

Clarina, Eyre Massey, Baron, 1719-1804. Letter : Quebec, to Sir William [Johnson], 1767 Aug. 20.

Title: Letter : Quebec, to Sir William [Johnson], 1767 Aug. 20.

August 20, 1767, letter from Massey at Quebec to Sir William Johnson, presumably at Johnson Hall, recommending a Major Hughs to succeed the current deputy agent to the Canadian Indians, Christian Daniel Claus, whose desire to vacate his office was rumored.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 folded sheet (4 p.)) ; 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38879580 View

Claus, Daniel, 1727-1787. Letter : Montreal, to Sir W[illia]m Johnson, 1761 Mar. 19.

Title: Letter : Montreal, to Sir W[illia]m Johnson, 1761 Mar. 19.

March 19, 1761, letter to Sir William Johnson, British superintendent of the northern Indians, regarding rumors of Gen. Amherst's departure for England, the disruption of the French fur trade, the loyalty of the "Caghnawageys & Caneghsadegey," the return of English prisoners held by the "Nipisins" and that tribe's fear of British reprisals, the revision and reprinting of a Mohawk prayer-book with added catechisms, and Claus' plan to purchase a military captaincy with Johnson's financial assistance.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 folded sheet (4 p.)) ; 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36577778 View

Robert Adams Day Book, 1768-1775

Title: Robert Adams Day Book 1768-1775

Day book of Robert Adams, proprietor of a general store in Johnstown, New York. Includes transactions with some well-known individuals such as Sir William Johnson (1715-1774) and his sons and sons-in-law, and Joseph Brant (1742-1807), also known as the Mohawk chief Thayendanegea. Also a microfilm version.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/a/adams_r.htm View

Claus, Daniel, 1727-1787. Daniel Claus journal and associated material, 1762-1766.

Title: Daniel Claus journal and associated material, 1762-1766.

Bound journal of Daniel Claus that documents his stay at Caughnawaga from 1762-1766. There are three typescript copies of the journal by Lillian Doyle, two different versions. The manuscript appears to have been bound out of order. One transcript copy is ordered as the original is ordered the other is ordered as Lillian Doyle thought the pages should be bound, which is chronologically. Also included are 2 copies of a typed manuscript by E. J. Devine titled Historic Caughnawaga, a map accompanies this. Also two publications, Daniel Claus' Narrative of his relations with Sir William Johnson, published June 1904 by the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New York and a publication showing excerpts from A prospective-plan of the Battle near Lake George by Samuel Blodget. Also two folders of notes and correspondence by Lillian Doyle to Edwin Kenneth Burnett, regarding Claus and the journal, from the 1940s. This includes some bibliographic information of works that mention Claus and some of her research on the journal.

ArchivalResource: 13 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/67615605 View

Kirby, William, 1817-1906. William Kirby papers, 1778-1813.

Title: William Kirby papers, 1778-1813.

ArchivalResource: 0.2 linear ft. (1 wallet, 1 large manuscript)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/431364837 View

Claus, Daniel, 1727-1787. [Papers, letters, etc., chiefly relating to the colonial history of western Pennsylvania] [microform].

Title: [Papers, letters, etc., chiefly relating to the colonial history of western Pennsylvania] [microform]. 1696-1796.

ArchivalResource: ca. 226 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45407847 View

Johnson, John, Sir, 1742-1830. Deed to Robert Adams, 1771 September 21.

Title: Deed to Robert Adams, 1771 September 21.

Deed between Sir John Johnson, Daniel Claus, Guy Johnson, Jelles Fonda, Michael Byrne, and Gilbert Tice as grantors and Robert Adams as grantee. The deed transfers ownership of three lots on the west side of the Schoharie Hill. Entered into the clerks records of Tryon County, N.Y. at Johnstown and notarized by Sir William Johnson.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122346499 View

Claus, Daniel, 1727-1787. Correspondence to and about Daniel Claus, 1777-1786.

Title: Correspondence to and about Daniel Claus, 1777-1786.

Photostats of letters discuss appointments and positions, land settlement, conflicts with Indians, financial statements for the estate of Daniel Claus, and legal documents regarding the loss of the Claus estate during the American Revolution, with mentions of the Memorialists. Some letters are from Rich Bulkeley, M. Wilmont, Sir Guy Carleton, George Germaine, Barry L. Leger.

ArchivalResource: 9 letters.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64061453 View

Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library). Copy of some conferences held with the Indians : Philadelphia, 1756 Apr. 19-23.

Title: Copy of some conferences held with the Indians : Philadelphia, 1756 Apr. 19-23.

Contemporary copy of the proceedings of several meetings held in Philadelphia during April, 1756, between Quakers, led by Israel Pemberton, who wished to preserve peace with the Indians, and representatives of the Six Nations led by western Pennsylvania Oneida chief "Scarroyada" (also known as Scarouady and Half King). At the conferences, the Indians and Quakers agreed to work to promote a peacable settlement between the government of Pennsylvania and the warring Delaware Indians.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (10 p.) ; 24 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40357127 View

Claus, Daniel, 1727-1787. Daniel Claus papers, 1716-1780.

Title: Daniel Claus papers, 1716-1780.

Two volumes (600 pages).

ArchivalResource: 2 items.1 container.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/144598450 View

Guy Johnson papers, 1773-1831

Title: Guy Johnson papers 1773-1831

Correspondence, journals, documents, and maps by or about Guy Johnson. The early correspondence (1773-1774) includes letters from and to Guy's uncle William Johnson, and concern his illness and desire for Guy Johnson to succeed him as Indian Affairs Superintendant. William's correspondents include the Earl of Dartmouth, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and General Thomas Gage. Letters from 1775 concern the loyalty of the Six Nations to the British, and includes an intercepted letter from Ethan Allen, written after his advance on Canada. Guy's correspondents include the Earl of Dartmouth, Daniel Claus, Peter Van Brugh Livingston, and Allan Maclean. Two journals kept by Guy Johnson date from 1775-1776, and 1781. The first journal records his visit to London and return to America on July 29, 1776, and includes an account of Howe's operations on Long Island and the capture of Fort Washington by General Knyphausen. The second journal contains daily reports of Indian raids, news and messages received, and information from prisoners. There are a number of references to Joseph Brant. Johnson's memorandum and account book is dated 1776-1782 and contains his official accounts. Penned at the back are extensive notes about Indian movements. The other journal, written by an unidentified officer posted at Kadaragoras, a settlement built for the Senecas, contains reports on enemy movements. The Other Papers contain formal proclamations by the magistrates of Schenectady and Albany, and by the Mohawks, dated May 1775, stating their mutual wishes for neutrality in the war. A manuscript by Colonel John Butler records the proceedings of 18 councils with the Six Nations and the Canadian Indians, from October, 1775 to June 1776. A manuscript plat map drawn by Guy Johnson of the Townships of Gage and Burton in Nova Scotia is undated. The rest of the papers relate to attempts by Johnson's family to obtain compensation for Johnson's expenses during the war.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 3 (incl. 1 oversize box]; Other Storage Formats: 1 broadside; Linear Feet: 1.77

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.guy View

Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843

Title: Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843.

The Sparks collection consists of original and transcribed historical documents and correspondence, chiefly concerning the American colonies and the original thirteen states, collected or transcribed beginning in 1819 by Jared Sparks. The collection includes the papers of Sir Francis Bernard and George Chalmers, letters of Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, the Marquis de Lafayette, and George Washington, the journals of Thomas Ainslie, the Board of Trade, the New York Provincial Congress and Conventions, as well as the papers and records from state public offices, among many others. The Sparks collection also contains his own historical essays and compositions, published articles, letter books, diaries, account books related to his college days, professional research, and material documenting his tenure as College president.

ArchivalResource: 252 volumes, 10 env., 2 folders, 3 cases, 57 boxes (31.6 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01965/catalog View