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United States War Department correspondence and records regarding Indian affairs and activities with Indian nations, 1798-1874.

Title: United States War Department correspondence and records regarding Indian affairs and activities with Indian nations, 1798-1874.

Typed transcripts of correspondence and records of activities with Indian nations. Transcripts include information on Indian census, Indian removal, reports from Indian agencies, United States policy, trade regulations, emigration, crime, and treaties. Many of the reports are from Indian agents to commanding officers or superintendents of the Office of Indian Affairs, some correspondence giving instructions to agents. Includes an index.

ArchivalResource: 1 cubic ft.

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Ewing, George Washington, 1803-1866. George Washington Ewing papers, 1829-1910.

Title: George Washington Ewing papers, 1829-1910.

Family and business correspondence, account book, documents, and printed matter. Business matters relate to Indian affairs and land speculation in Kansas, Indiana, Missouri, Illinois, and Wisconsin.

ArchivalResource: 250 items.1 container.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/162502359 View

Andrews, Thomas Patrick, 1794-1868. Thomas Patrick Andrews papers, 1845-1850.

Title: Thomas Patrick Andrews papers, 1845-1850.

The papers record a Congressional Committee Hearing, where Colonel Andrews, senior Indian commissioner at Council Bluffs and Osage River, was questioned as to his part in negotiating the treaty signed by the Potawatami Indians in June 1846, financial agreements that the Indians made with the traders, especially G. W. and W. G. Ewing, and conversations with the Ewings.

ArchivalResource: 79 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702127319 View

Cole, A. A. (Alphonso Albert), 1818-1862. Papers, 1836-1862.

Title: Papers, 1836-1862.

Cole's personal, legal, political, and financial papers, 1836-1862. Included are letters and papers of his father Albert. Political correspondents include U.S. congressmen Daniel R. Bearss, Graham N. Fitch, and S.C. Sample. Many of Cole's papers deal with the Miami Nation of Indians, their removal from Indiana, and property claims. The main correspondent is George W. Ewing, a trader. Also included is the estate of Frances Slocum, 1846. Cole's legal career is represented with legal papers, especially civil law cases involving estates, land, rights-of-way, and personal property. Included are Cole's dockets from the Miami County Circuit Court. Cole's government-related materials include bills, resolutions, petitions, and addresses. Topics include the needs of Miami County and annexing Canada to the U.S. His financial records include his interests in a canal boat and the Horse Thief Detective Agency. Also included are items regarding the founding of St. James Episcopal Church in Peru.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28661592 View

Ewing, William G. (William Griffith), 1801-1854. William G. Ewing and George W. Ewing papers, 1847-1882.

Title: William G. Ewing and George W. Ewing papers, 1847-1882.

Photostatic and typewritten copies of letters from Madison Sweetser regarding payment of claims to fur traders in connection with the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux (1851); a photocopied record book of lots in Winona (Minn.) owned by George W. Ewing; microfilmed letters from Richard Chute and David Olmsted concerning the removal of the Winnebago Indians to Minnesota and their annuity payments; and microfilmed deeds, accounts, inventories, and business memoranda.

ArchivalResource: 6 items and 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122580662 View

Grignon, Charles A., 1808-1862. Papers, 1816-1855.

Title: Papers, 1816-1855.

Papers of Grignon, a resident of Kaukauna, Wis., federal Indian interpreter, and local Democratic political figure. A few letters and accounts reflect Grignon's interest in the waning fur-trade business which he acquired from his father Augustin Grignon, but most of the correspondence relates to his work as an Indian interpreter from 1844 to 1855. Included are records of annuity payments and of conferences with the Indians, and references to his trips to Washington on behalf of the Menominees in 1845 and 1850. Among Grignon's correspondents on politics, business, and Indian affairs were Florimond J. Bonduel, Ben C. Eastman, Albert G. Ellis, George W. Ewing, Morgan L. Martin, and Lyman C. Draper. The collection also contains papers of David P. Meade and John F. Meade, Grignon's father-in-law and brother-in-law. These include postal records kept by David P. Meade while postmaster of Kaukauna in 1853-1854; and informative letters on business and politics written in the 1840s by John F. Meade, first from Green Bay as U.S. Land Receiver, then from Madison while a clerk in the Territorial House of Representatives and a state legislator. Numerous business papers relate to land sales, some by Charles A. Grignon, some by Jacob Deuel, surveyor and town promoter in Calumet County. Also included are letters regarding the use of stone from the Grignon quarry for locks on the Fox River, and other improvements.

ArchivalResource: 1.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38009127 View

Bearss, Daniel R., 1809-1884. Collection, 1800-1908 (bulk 1835-1864)

Title: Collection, 1800-1908 (bulk 1835-1864)

An artificial collection of the business, political, and personal papers of Bearss. Business and legal papers include correspondence, bills, accounts, bonds, audits, deeds, contracts, etc., reflecting his mercantile and real estate interests. Political correspondence relates to state legislative activities, Whig and Republican Party affairs, and Bearss' claims against the Potawatomi, Ottowa, Chippewa, and Miami Indians. Personal correspondence concerns family travels and business, including trips to California and murder charges against Charles W. Bearss. Correspondents include A.A. Cole, Schuyler Colfax, John D. Defrees, George W. Ewing, Francis Godfroy, Asa Johnson, Francis Lafontaine, Oliver P. Morton, Caleb B. Smith, Madison Sweetser, and John S. Winters.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes and 4 oversize folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36303820 View

Ewing, George Washington, 1803-1866. Confidential suggestions as to how the treaty with the Pottowotamies may be made : Memorandum : to Hon. W.L. Marcy, Secy. of War and Hon. Wm. Medill, Com. Ind. Affairs, 1846 Mar. 16.

Title: Confidential suggestions as to how the treaty with the Pottowotamies may be made : Memorandum : to Hon. W.L. Marcy, Secy. of War and Hon. Wm. Medill, Com. Ind. Affairs, 1846 Mar. 16.

Contemporary copy of a Mar. 16, 1846, memorandum from Ewing to the Secretary of War, William Marcy, and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, William Medill, offering suggestions as to the negotiation and content of a treaty securing the removal of Potawatomi bands from Eastern Kansas and Council Bluffs, Iowa, to a tract of land located on the Kansas River.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 sheet folded to 4 p.) ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34648171 View

Marcy, William L. (William Learned), 1786-1857. Biographical letter about William Ewing, 1845 December 12.

Title: Biographical letter about William Ewing, 1845 December 12.

A photocopy of a letter written by William L. Marcy, United States Secretary of War, to Roger Jones, Adjutant General, giving his approval for William and George Ewing to trade on the military lands of Fort Snelling, Minnesota.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313859878 View

Ewing, William G., d. 1854. Selections from the Ewing papers [microform], 1837-1867.

Title: Selections from the Ewing papers [microform], 1837-1867.

Correspondence of George F. Wright of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, an agent of Ewing, Chute and Company, Fort Wayne, Indiana fur traders regarding the fur trade and relations with the Menominee Indians.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122449157 View

United States. Dept. of the Interior. Indian Division. [Selected files relating to Minnesota and northern plains Indian affairs], 1848-1901.

Title: [Selected files relating to Minnesota and northern plains Indian affairs], 1848-1901.

Photocopied files relating to Indian affairs in Minnesota and neighboring states, and to the Dakota Indians of the northern plains. They concern such matters as land cessions, claims for damages incurred during hostilities, management of Indian agencies, sale of timber on Ojibwe land, meetings of tribal and U.S. government representatives, furnishing of supplies to the Dakota Indians, and general government relations with the Dakota and Ojibwe.

ArchivalResource: 0.75 cu. ft. (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86125603 View

Grignon, Charles A., 1808-1862. Papers, 1816-1855.

Title: Papers, 1816-1855.

Papers of Grignon, a resident of Kaukauna, Wis., federal Indian interpreter, and local Democratic political figure. A few letters and accounts reflect Grignon's interest in the waning fur-trade business which he acquired from his father Augustin Grignon, but most of the correspondence relates to his work as an Indian interpreter from 1844 to 1855. Included are records of annuity payments and of conferences with the Indians, and references to his trips to Washington on behalf of the Menominees in 1845 and 1850. Among Grignon's correspondents on politics, business, and Indian affairs were Florimond J. Bonduel, Ben C. Eastman, Albert G. Ellis, George W. Ewing, Morgan L. Martin, and Lyman C. Draper.

ArchivalResource: 1.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145784017 View

United States War Department correspondence and records regarding Indian affairs and activities with Indian nations, 1798-1874.

Title: United States War Department correspondence and records regarding Indian affairs and activities with Indian nations, 1798-1874.

Typed transcripts of correspondence and records of activities with Indian nations. Transcripts include information on Indian census, Indian removal, reports from Indian agencies, United States policy, trade regulations, emigration, crime, and treaties. Many of the reports are from Indian agents to commanding officers or superintendents of the Office of Indian Affairs, some correspondence giving instructions to agents. Includes an index.

ArchivalResource: 1 cubic ft.

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