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Crooks, Ramsay, 1787-1859. Ramsay Crooks correspondence, 1822-1836, bulk 1822.

Title: Ramsay Crooks correspondence, 1822-1836, bulk 1822.

Correspondence and list of Ramsay Crooks, dating primarily from 1822 and mainly regarding American Fur Company business.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 linear feet (3 folders)

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Baird, Henry S. (Henry Samuel), 1800-1875. Henry S. Baird papers, 1825-1861.

Title: Henry S. Baird papers, 1825-1861.

Photographic copies of selected correspondence, primarily in French, from the papers of Henry S. Baird in the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. The bulk of the letters are to Baird's wife from her cousin, Joseph LaFramboise, from the Little Rock fur-trading post on the Minnesota River and from other stations. Several have been translated.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder, containing 17 letters.

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Ruckman, J. Ward. Story of Ramsay Crooks, undated / by J. Ward Ruckman.

Title: Story of Ramsay Crooks, undated / by J. Ward Ruckman.

Two photocopies (37 pages each) of "The Story of Ramsay Crooks" by J. Ward Ruckman, which includes biographical data on Crooks; his fur trade activities, particularly his partnership with Robert McClellan, trips to the Upper Mississippi River and Astor fur posts in Oregon, association with John Jacob Astor, Robert Stuart, the American Fur Company, the Pacific Fur Company, the Northwest Company of Canada, and the Chateau family; and his marriage and family, particularly his son, William.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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Pierre Chouteau and family papers., 1799-1850.

Title: Pierre Chouteau and family papers. 1799-1850.

Original, photostatic copies, and typed transcripts of letters between Pierre Chouteau, Henry Chouteau, Ramsay Crooks, George Davenport, Hercules L. Dousman, Kenneth McKenzie, Henry M. Rice, Joseph Rolette, Henry H. Sibley, Joseph M. Street and others as well as contracts, accounts, and other related documents concerning the fur trade, fur companies, the Dakota, Sauk, and Fox Indians, and similar matters.

ArchivalResource:

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Correspondence relating to the Minnesota fur trade and the Minnesota-Wisconsin boundary dispute, 1838-1850.

Title: Correspondence relating to the Minnesota fur trade and the Minnesota-Wisconsin boundary dispute, 1838-1850.

Copies of the letters from the papers of John Catlin, Hercules L. Dousman, and John H. Tweedy in the State Historical Society of Wisconsin relating especially to the fur trade in Minnesota, the controversy concerning the location of the Minnesota-Wisconsin boundary, and other material relevant to the eastern portion of what became Minnesota Territory.

ArchivalResource:

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American Fur Company. American Fur Company records, 1803-1849.

Title: American Fur Company records, 1803-1849.

Cash books, daybooks, inventories, journals, ledgers, letterbooks and settlement books. Burton holds originals relating to the fur trade at Mackinac, 1803-1806 and 1817-1843. Collection contains microfilm copies and photostats of other original material held at: Mackinac Island, Supervisor of Park and Harbor Commission; the National Archives of Canada, Montreal; the New York Historical Society; Library of Congress; Carnegie Public Library; and Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes, 2 wallets, 23 v., 3 large manuscripts, 43 microfilm reels.

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Dousman, Hercules L. (Hercules Louis), 1800-1868. Hercules L. Dousman papers, 1808-1857, bulk 1840-1857.

Title: Hercules L. Dousman papers, 1808-1857, bulk 1840-1857.

Correspondence, agreements, powers of attorney, accounts, promissory notes, etc., of Hercules Dousman, primarily relating to his fur trade business.

ArchivalResource: 0.4 linear feet (52 items in 1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35997390 View

American Fur Company papers., 1831-1849.

Title: American Fur Company papers. 1831-1849.

Microfilmed papers of the American Fur Company. Includes microfilm copies of unbound letters, invoices, blotters, orders, memorandums, letterbooks, bound volumes and other papers.

ArchivalResource:

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Franchère, Gabriel, 1786-1863. Gabriele Franchere papers, 1834-1851.

Title: Gabriele Franchere papers, 1834-1851.

Correspondence with his supervisor Ramsey Crooks in New York, with other agents: Samuel Abbott at Mackinac, William Brewster at Detroit, Dr. C. Wulf Borup at LaPointe, and M. Warren at Montreal, and with customers about the shipping of supplies, payment of accounts, and trade in the Great Lakes area with the Indians.

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel : positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34420333 View

Henry and Elizabeth Baird papers, 1798-1937

Title: Henry and Elizabeth Baird papers, 1798-1937

Papers of Henry Samuel Baird, an attorney of Green Bay, Wisconsin, active in Territorial politics and Indian affairs, and his wife and other family members. Correspondence, business records, speeches and writings, clippings, and other materials concern the fur trade, Indians, the Civil War draft, Peshtigo fire relief, real estate transactions, genealogy, and family matters. Among the papers are Baird's memoranda on the trial of Oshkosh, 1830; two muster rolls of companies of Menominee Indians, 1832; some correspondence, 1848-1850, on the reoccupation of Fort Howard and the return of the Winnebago to the upper Wisconsin River; a few items on Stockbridge Indian affairs and on the fur trade and traders; papers accumulated by Baird as draft commissioner during the Civil War; 3 school copybooks; and some reminiscent articles on Wisconsin history. Among the business and professional papers are letters from Henry R. Schoolcraft, Eleazer Williams, Ramsay Crooks (one in 1842 describing the death of Joseph Rolette), from Crooks' sons, Ramsay, Jr. of New York City and William of St. Paul, concerning the disposition of their father's property at Green Bay, and from William Astor, 1861-1863, relating to Astor land at Green Bay. Henry Dodge and Horace Rublee are other correspondents. The large quantity of personal family correspondence includes photostats of letters exchanged by Baird and his future wife during their courtship; about three dozen letters written by his father, Henry Baird, while he was living at Cleveland, Ohio, from 1822 to 1832, and in 1835-1836 when he was employed by the government to teach farming methods to the Indians at Neenah (Winnebago Rapids), Wisconsin, and letters written in 1836 by Henry S. Baird to his wife and to his father describing the sessions of the territorial legislature meeting at Belmont. There are also letters addressed to Mrs. Baird from the wives and sisters of officers who had been stationed at Fort Howard for brief periods. Mrs. Baird's own letters, frequently written in French, depict frontier living conditions in Green Bay and other Wisconsin communities, and family correspondence of later dates reflects the changes in social and political life which occurred as the state became more populated. Other correspondence of Mrs. Baird concerns relief for victims in the forest fires of 1871. Additional papers of members of their families include many written during the first quarter of the nineteenth century concerning Mackinac Island, Michigan. Among them are more than two dozen papers of Madame Madeleine Laframboise, written mainly in French. These include rosters, 1814, 1817, and 1819, of Captain Benjamin K. Pierce's company, which was stationed at Fort Mackinac; one letter written by the Reverend Francois V. Badin in 1833 and others regarding early Catholic missionary work in the Northwest; several from Antoine Dequindre and from other business and social acquaintances in Detroit; and a number from her nephew Alexis Laframboise, in Montreal, and her son Joseph. Other letters, 1834-1853, were written by Joseph to his cousin Mrs. Baird from his fur-trading post at Little Rock on the Minnesota River and from other stations. Genealogical information are the Tenney family and the Grignon family is present.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 c.f. (5 archives boxes and 1 flat box)

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Martin, M. L. (Morgan Lewis), 1805-1887. Papers, 1645-1931.

Title: Papers, 1645-1931.

Papers of a Wisconsin pioneer and land speculator who served in the Wisconsin Territorial Council, as Washington representative for Wisconsin Territory, president of the state constitutional convention, member of the state legislature, United States Army paymaster, Indian agent, and Brown County judge, including correspondence, diaries, accounts, land patents and other legal and business records, reminiscent articles by Martin, and reminiscences and a brief diary by Mrs. Martin. Business and personal correspondence, which forms the bulk of the collection, largely concerns legal problems, land grants and purchases, Indian affairs, the fur trade, governmental activities, and personal news. Legislative papers contain correspondence, 1845-1847, when he served as territorial representative in Washington. Letters during the Civil War describe his service as a United States army paymaster and after the Civil War deal with his problems as Indian agent. Material on the Fox River Improvement Company is also included. Personal papers include correspondence with relatives and friends and scattered account books, 1836-1848. Also present are diaries of Mrs. Martin (nee Elizabeth Smith) kept before and after her marriage. The correspondence of daughters Deborah and Sarah Martin includes many letters pertaining to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and notes, biographical sketches, and genealogical data relating to Brown County, Wisconsin.

ArchivalResource: 6.4 c.f. (16 archives boxes, 1 flat box); 20 reels of microfilm (35 mm.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43714767 View

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Selected records of the Office of Indian Affairs, 1797-1909 (bulk 1814-1860).

Title: Selected records of the Office of Indian Affairs, 1797-1909 (bulk 1814-1860).

Negative photocopies, a microfilm reproduction, and typed transcripts of selected letters, reports, circulars, Indian censuses, maps, drawings, and other documents concerning the Sioux (Dakota), Chippewa (Ojibwe), and Winnebago Indians under the jurisdiction of the Michigan and St. Louis superintendencies in present-day Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan.

ArchivalResource: 2.2 cu. ft. (5 boxes) and 1 microfilm reel.

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Chouteau, Pierre, 1789-1865. Pierre Chouteau and family papers, 1799-1850.

Title: Pierre Chouteau and family papers, 1799-1850.

Original, photostatic copies, and typed transcripts of letters between Pierre Chouteau, Henry Chouteau, Ramsay Crooks, George Davenport, Hercules L. Dousman, Kenneth McKenzie, Henry M. Rice, Joseph Rolette, Henry H. Sibley, Joseph M. Street and others as well as contracts, accounts, and other related documents concerning the fur trade, fur companies, the Dakota, Sauk, and Fox Indians, and similar matters.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 cubic feet (1 box and 10 items in reserve).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122508675 View

Crooks, Ramsay, 1787-1859. Ramsay Crooks letter, February 22, 1837.

Title: Ramsay Crooks letter, February 22, 1837.

Letter to William Brewster regarding formation of a corporation to build a canal at Saulte Ste. Marie, Michigan.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34422387 View

American Fur Company. Papers, 1834-1848 [microform].

Title: Papers, 1834-1848 [microform].

Business correspondence of Gabriel Franchere and John Livingstone, agents at Sault Ste. Marie, with their supervisor Ramsay Crooks, N.Y., and other agents, relating to trade and fishing on the Great Lakes.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel of 1 (833 items, 5 v.) : positive ; 35 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52446513 View

Nute, Grace Lee, 1895-1990,. Northwest missions manuscripts and index, 1766-1926.

Title: Northwest missions manuscripts and index, 1766-1926.

Typed transcripts and negative photocopies of letters, diaries, church records, and articles pertaining to Protestant and Catholic missions to the Ojibwe and Dakota Indians in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Dakota Territory, and neighboring areas in Canada (1810-1896); and a card index to these and other items relating to northwest missions (1766-1926).

ArchivalResource: 15.5 cu. ft. (21 boxes); 5 microfilm reels.

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Menard and Valle (Firm). Letter : Kaskaskia [Ill.] to Mr. Ramsay Crooks, St. Louis, 1822 July 9.

Title: Letter : Kaskaskia [Ill.] to Mr. Ramsay Crooks, St. Louis, 1822 July 9.

Letter written by the firm of Menard and Valle on July 9, 1822 to Ramsay Crooks, general manager of the American Fur Company.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 folded sheet (4 p.)) ; 25 cm.

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Johnston, George, 1790-1861. George Johnston papers, 1819-1858.

Title: George Johnston papers, 1819-1858.

Typed and photostatic copies of letters from Henry R. Schoolcraft, requesting information about the legends and language of the Ojibwe; letters by Ramsay Crooks and Dr. Edward Purcell; notes on Ojibwe historical lore; and Johnston's reminiscences of his life as an interpreter and early resident of Sault Ste. Marie, mentioning treaties there (1820) and at Fond du Lac (1826), and running the Ojibwe-Dakota boundary line (1835). Reserve materials are handwritten letters from Schoolcraft to Johnson writing from Detroit and describing business conditions and Indian relations on the frontier (1831, 1833).

ArchivalResource: 0.1 cubic feet (2 items in reserve).

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Northwest missions manuscripts and index., 1766-1926.

Title: Northwest missions manuscripts and index

Typed transcripts and negative photocopies of letters, diaries, church records, and articles pertaining to Protestant and Catholic missions to the Ojibwe and Dakota Indians in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Dakota Territory, and neighboring areas in Canada (1810-1896); and a card index to these and other items relating to northwest missions (1766-1926).

ArchivalResource: 15.5 cubic feet (21 boxes); 5 microfilm reels

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Matthews, W. W. Letter : Montreal, to Ramsay Crooks, New York, 1822 Mar. 8.

Title: Letter : Montreal, to Ramsay Crooks, New York, 1822 Mar. 8.

Mar. 8, 1822, letter from W.W. Matthews in Montreal to Ramsay Crooks, general manager and virtual head of the American Fur Company, regarding company business.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 folded sheet (4 p.)) ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34992013 View

American Fur Company. Records, 1816-1847.

Title: Records, 1816-1847.

Photostat copies of letter books, 1816-1830, with letters written by Robert Stuart and Ramsay Crooks, factors of the company at Mackinac, Mich. to agents on Lake Superior, at Green Bay and Prairie du Chien, Wis., and on the St. Peter's and Mississippi rivers, and to headquarters in New York City.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 c.f. (7 oversize volumes) and.1 reel of microfilm (35mm)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122461689 View

Lawe, George William, 1810-1895. George W. Lawe papers, 1754-1914 (bulk 1820-1860).

Title: George W. Lawe papers, 1754-1914 (bulk 1820-1860).

Letters, indentures, account sheets, bills and receipts, certificates, census list of American Indians, and other papers, relating primarily to the fur trade, land investments, and relations with American Indian tribes of George W. Lawe or of his father John Lawe, chiefly in Brown County (Michigan, later Wisconsin), Green Bay (Wis.), and Kaukauna (Wis.). Topics include John Lawe's work for the American Fur Company; George W. Lawe's Indian Sub-Agency at Green Bay (1842-1843, 1851-1853); American Indian treaties and land transfers chiefly involving Menominee, Stockbridge, and Winnebago Indians; Henry Atkinson and the Black Hawk War; bridge building on the Fox River (1850s); Lawe's position as U.S. Postmaster at Kaukauna (1849, 1878-1885); reminiscences of early Wisconsin; and Lawe family affairs and genealogy. Correspondents include Ramsay Crooks, James Duane Doty, Michael Dousman, Louis Franchere, Alexander A. Grignon, Amable Grignon, Charles Augustin Grignon, Peter B. Grignon, John Scott Horner, Timothy Otis Howe, Catherine A. Lawe, John Lawe, Morgan Lewis Martin, John F. Meade, Elias Murray, William Charles Russell, Robert Stuart, and Andrew Jacques Vieau.

ArchivalResource: 1 oversize folder.6 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. (Master copy for reproduction use only).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/715321593 View

Henry H. Sibley Papers., 1815-1932.

Title: Henry H. Sibley Papers. 1815-1932.

Correspondence, financial records, legal papers, speeches,and miscellany of this early Minnesota fur trader, entrepreneur, andgovernor. More than a third of the papers concern the fur trade with the Dakota Indians of theUpper Mississippi Valley from 1815 to 1855, documenting Sibley's businessassociation with the American Fur Company and its successor, Pierre Chouteau, Jr.,and Company, as well as his interest in the treaties, wars, and welfare of theDakota.

ArchivalResource:

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Crooks, Ramsay, 1787-1859. Letter to John Holliday and Goodrich Warner from St. Mary's Falls, Aug. 8, 1819 re: American Fur Company.

Title: Letter to John Holliday and Goodrich Warner from St. Mary's Falls, Aug. 8, 1819 re: American Fur Company.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29065350 View

Kennerly, James, 1792-1840. Skins from the Fort Osage & Prairie du Chien factories : list, 1822 June 25 / in Mr. Kennerlys hand.

Title: Skins from the Fort Osage & Prairie du Chien factories : list, 1822 June 25 / in Mr. Kennerlys hand.

List of skins received from the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, prepared in St. Louis, June 25, 1822, by James Kennerly, U.S. factory system forwarding agent (1813-1822) and submitted to Ramsay Crooks, American Fur Company general manager.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 leaves) ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38562046 View

John M. Johnston collection 1820-1939 1820-1892 Johnston, John M. papers

Title: John M. Johnston collection 1820-1939 1820-1892 Johnston, John M. papers

This collection contains 65 letters, financial records, and legal documents related to John M. Johnston, a Native American language interpreter who lived in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and to Native Americans in Michigan during the 19th century. Henry R. Schoolcraft and Ramsay Crooks contributed letters and documents to the collection.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-2805joh?rgn=main;view=text View

Crooks, Ramsay, 1787-1859. Ramsay Crooks correspondence, 1788-1846.

Title: Ramsay Crooks correspondence, 1788-1846.

Includes photocopies of letters dealing with fur trade activities. Crooks was president of Northern Department of the American Fur Co.

ArchivalResource: 0.8 linear ft. (1 wallet, 2 volumes, 1 large manuscript)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/427546630 View

Johnston, George, d. 1861. George Johnston papers, 1813-1862.

Title: George Johnston papers, 1813-1862.

Papers deal with Johnston's activities as Indian agent and interpreter among the Chippewa at La Pointe, Mackinac, Grand Traverse Bay and Sault Ste. Marie; with prospecting for copper and iron in the Lake Superior region; with Indian language and traditions and with family matters. Principal family correspondents are his father, John Johnston; his sister, .lane Johnston Schoolcraft; his brothers-in-law, James L. Schoolcraft and Rev. William McMurray; and his nephew, John Johnston Schoolcraft. More than seventy letters are from Henry R. Schoolcraft. Other correspondents are Ramsay Crooks, Lewis Cass, Dr. Zina Pitcher, Truman Smith and Zachariah Chandler. Included are references to the Canadian Rebellion of 1837-38 and to the proposed Soo Canal, 1842, 1844 and 1852.

ArchivalResource: 5.5 linear ft. (10 boxes, 1 volume, 1 large manuscript, 4 microfilm reels)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/310092455 View

Abbott, James, 1776-1859. Letters, 1822-1824.

Title: Letters, 1822-1824.

Two letters from James Abbott in Detroit, to Ramsay Crooks, general manager of the American Fur Company, then in St. Louis (June 13, 1822), and to O.N. Bostwick, an American Fur Company agent in St. Louis (Aug. 31, 1824), concerning the fur trade in Detroit and financial transactions via Bostwick with Crooks.

ArchivalResource: 2 items ; 25 cm.1822 June 13 letter: 1 folded sheet (4 p.)1824 Aug. 31 letter: 1 folded sheet (4 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35988579 View

Abbott, Samuel, d. 1851. Letter : Philadelphia, to Ramsay Crooks, New York, 1822 Apr. 26.

Title: Letter : Philadelphia, to Ramsay Crooks, New York, 1822 Apr. 26.

Apr. 26, 1822, letter from Samuel Abbott to Ramsay Crooks, general manager of the American Fur Company, regarding the procurement of goods (probably trade goods) from the Philadelphia Custom House, and the payment of duties.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35988474 View

Floyd, George Rogers Clark, 1781- . Papers, 1840-1849, 1875-1878.

Title: Papers, 1840-1849, 1875-1878.

Papers of George Rogers Clark Floyd, a native of Virginia who served as secretary of Wisconsin Territory, 1843-1846.

ArchivalResource: 0.6 c.f. (3 archives boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145786414 View

Dousman, Hercules L. (Hercules Louis), 1800-1868. Hercules L. Dousman papers, 1808-1811, 1822-1903.

Title: Hercules L. Dousman papers, 1808-1811, 1822-1903.

Correspondence, account books, and other business records of this Prairie du Chien (Wis.) trader and land speculator and of his son of the same name.

ArchivalResource: 5.5 cu. ft. (7 boxes, incl. 81 v.; 5 oversize items); 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122524271 View

Plunkett, Margaret F.,. Biographical and genealogical data on Ramsay Crooks and family, undated, 1830, and 1835 /compiled by Margaret F. Plunkett and Marie Crooks Just.

Title: Biographical and genealogical data on Ramsay Crooks and family, undated, 1830, and 1835 /compiled by Margaret F. Plunkett and Marie Crooks Just.

Biographical and genealogical data relating to Ramsay Crooks, a fur trader and president of the American Fur Company, which operated in Minnesota, and to his wife, Emilie Pratte Crooks, and the Crooks family. Includes copies of Ramsay Crooks' 1825 marriage certificate and his daughter Emelia Crooks' 1826 baptism certificate, his 1830 citizenship certificate, and a letter (1835) to the directors of the Mohawk and Hudson Rail Road Company in response to their resolution of appreciation after Crooks' retirement as president.

ArchivalResource: 20 items in 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122412519 View

Henry family. Papers, 1758-1909.

Title: Papers, 1758-1909.

The records of the Henry family document the line leading from the first William to Granville, with some records of William, III.

ArchivalResource: 12 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86123507 View

Crooks, Ramsay, 1787-1859. Ramsay Crooks letter, February 22, 1837.

Title: Ramsay Crooks letter, February 22, 1837.

Letter to William Brewster regarding formation of a corporation to build a canal at Saulte Ste. Marie, Michigan.

ArchivalResource: 1 item

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78061191 View

State Historical Society of Wisconsin,. Correspondence relating to the Minnesota fur trade and the Minnesota-Wisconsin boundary dispute, 1838-1850.

Title: Correspondence relating to the Minnesota fur trade and the Minnesota-Wisconsin boundary dispute, 1838-1850.

Copies of letters fomr the papers of John Catlin, Hercules L. Dousman, and John H. Tweedy in the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, relating especially to the fur trade in Minnesota, and the controversy concerning the locaton of the Minnesota-Wisconsin boundary, and other matters relevant to the eastern portion of what became Minnesota Territory.

ArchivalResource: 2 folders, containing 36 letters.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313857111 View

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft Papers, 1788-1941, (bulk 1820-1856)

Title: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft Papers 1788-1941 (bulk 1820-1856)

Author, ethnologist, explorer, geologist, glass manufacturer, and Indian agent. Correspondence, journals, articles, books, manuscripts of magazines, poetry, speeches, government reports, Indian vocabularies, maps, drawings, and other papers reflecting Schoolcraft's career as a glass manufacturer, mineralogist on an exploring expedition in the Ozark Mountains, geologist on the Cass expedition to the Northwest Territory, leader of expeditions throughout the Great Lakes region, member of Michigan's legislative council, Indian agent, superintendent of Indian affairs for Michigan, ethnologist, and author of works concerning the Iroquois of New York state and other Indians of North America.

ArchivalResource: 25,000 items; 90 containers plus 1 oversize; 28 linear feet; 69 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000003 View

Sibley, Henry Hastings, 1811-1891. Henry H. Sibley papers, 1815-1932.

Title: Henry H. Sibley papers, 1815-1932.

Correspondence, financial records, legal papers, speeches, and miscellany of this early Minnesota fur trader, entrepreneur, and governor.

ArchivalResource: 34 microfilm reels and 0.25 cu. ft. (1 box, 1 Reserve folder, 1 oversize folder).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313848596 View

Chaput, Donald. Donald Chaput collection.

Title: Donald Chaput collection.

This collection consists of a photocopy of a letter from Stanislaus Shapput, June 22, 1839, to John Lawe concerning a shipment of furs and request for whiskey, flour and lard; a photocopy of a letter from D.J. Campau, Mar. 18, 1839, to George W. Law, concerning failure of Law to pay Campau for advance in goods; and a photocopy of a letter from Ramsey Crooks, president of the American Fur Company, July 16, 1837, to John Lawe, American Fur Company representative in Green Bay, Wisconsin Territory, listing the reasons why the American Fur Company will discontinue the use of their trading facilities at Mackinac, Mich.

ArchivalResource: .1 cu. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41054004 View

Grignon family. Grignon, Lawe and Porlier papers, 1712-1884 (bulk 1820-1840).

Title: Grignon, Lawe and Porlier papers, 1712-1884 (bulk 1820-1840).

Primarily the business, personal, and official correspondence of three families, early residents of Green Bay, Wis., whose members traded individually or in groups or served as agents of fur trading companies on the shore of Lake Michigan and as far as the Dakotas and Missouri. The correspondence is from 1800 to 1884, about two-thirds of them are for the years 1820-1840, with most of the letters in French. There are about 175 letters dating up to the end of the War of 1812, divided about equally among those of members of the three families--Jacob Franks and his nephew and successor in the trade, John Lawe; Augustin, Louis, and Pierre Grignon; and Jacques Porlier; a few concerning the Robert Dickson Company; a number from Montreal outfitters; and a few bearing directly on the war. Beginning about 1820, there are numerous letters from Robert Stuart of the American Fur Company, and occasional ones from Ramsay Crooks, Gabriel Franchère, Samuel Abbott, William B. Astor, and others. Letters written from many posts report on the conditions of the trade; those from Menominee River, the Kakalin, Butte des Morts, and Milwaukee are most numerous. The writers include Thomas G. Anderson of Drummond Island, Michael Dousman, Laurent Fily, Amable, Alexander, and Charles A. Grignon, Jean B. Jacobs, Solomon Juneau, Peter and William Powell, and many others. There are allusions to Indians in connection with the trade, to treaties, to annuity payments to Winnebago and Menominee, and to the uprisings of 1827 and 1832. Brief and scattered information on the establishment of American civil and military jurisdiction is found in such forms as orders dealing with the liquor traffic, complaints on the regulating of the trade, petitions and declarations regarding citizenship, and correspondence of military officers and Indian agents. There are references to land claims and land speculation at Green Bay, Milwaukee, and elsewhere. Prospectuses and subscription lists of the local schools, and series of letters received from sons and daughters attending schools and academies at Montreal, Lowville in New York, Somerset in Ohio, and elsewhere, contain information on the education of Green Bay youths. There are a number of letters from Catholic priests to their parishioners, and a lesser number from Episcopalian missionaries at Green Bay. Several series of letters not properly a part of the Grignon, Lawe, or Porlier papers are filed in the collection: a group of letters, 1807-1818, to Charles Reaume dealing with his duties as justice of the peace; several letters addressed to George Boyd and some drafts of his own letters; a collection of family letters of Ebenezer Childs, including several written by him from the territorial legislature at the end of the thirties; and a number addressed to Andrew J. Vieau of Milwaukee and Two Rivers, 1836-1846, mainly from his father-in-law, John Lawe, concerning the trade and the operation of a saw and grist mill. Largely after 1840, there are several letters from pioneer settlers in Fond du Lac, Oconto, Oshkosh, Poygan Lake, Peshtigo Mills, and elsewhere in Wisconsin. Other correspondents represented in the collection include James Abbott, Henry S. Baird, Florimond Bonduel, Richard Cadle, Antoine Dequindre, William Dickson, James Doty, Alexander Irwin, Charles Trowbridge, Eleazer Williams, Austin Wing, William Woodbridge, and others. Also included are eleven volumes of legal papers from 1712 to 1873 containing certificates of marriage, apprenticeship bonds, trade licenses and agreements, citizenship papers, assessment rolls, poll tax lists, deeds, proclamations, lists of jurors, and other miscellaneous papers. Also includes visual materials from the late 19th century and early 20th century consisting of portraits and snapshots of the Grignon family and friends. The majority were collected by Edith Acker Grignon and her husband Rossiter Grignon and depict relatives and events of their generation (the late 19th century and early 20th century) rather than the earlier generations documented in the papers. Also included are pictures of hunting in northern Wisconsin and snapshots of farming in Northern Wisconsin.

ArchivalResource: 6.4 c.f. (16 archives boxes),13 reels of microfilm (35 mm),1.2 c.f. of photographs (4 archives boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173702526 View

Company records., 1811-1876 (bulk 1820-1848).

Title: Company records. 1811-1876 (bulk 1820-1848).

Microfilmed copies of a letterbook, account books, and miscellaneous records kept by the American Fur Company at its Michilimackinac post that document its business activities, interests, and transactions in the Great Lakes region.

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Martin, M. L. (Morgan Lewis), 1805-1887. Morgan Martin papers, 1645-1931.

Title: Morgan Martin papers, 1645-1931.

Papers of a Wisconsin pioneer and land speculator who served in the Wisconsin Territorial Council, as Washington representative for Wisconsin Territory, president of the state constitutional convention, member of the state legislature, United States Army paymaster, Indian agent, and Brown County judge, including correspondence, diaries, accounts, land patents and other legal and business records, reminiscent articles by Martin, and reminiscences and a brief diary by Mrs. Martin. Business and personal correspondence, which forms the bulk of the collection, largely concerns legal problems, land grants and purchases, Indian affairs, the fur trade, governmental activities, and personal news. Among the early papers in the collection are a few relating to the fur trade, particularly the operations of the Abbott brothers, Samuel, James, and Robert, centering around Detroit and Mackinac, Michigan; controversies before the merger of fur companies in 1821; and the bankruptcy of the American Fur Company. Beginning with Martin's removal to Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1827 there are numerous business and legal papers relating to his work as an attorney for local and eastern clients, particularly as that of a collection agent. Legislative papers contain correspondence, 1845-1847, when he served as territorial representative in Washington, on Wisconsin problems such as land claims, mineral rights, pensions, appointments, elections, and internal improvements. Letters from constituents contain many references to Wisconsin politics. Letters during the Civil War describe his service as a United States army paymaster and after the Civil War deal with his problems as Indian agent for the Menominee, Stockbridge, and Oneida Indians and include comments on claims, annuities, and treaties. Correspondents include William Beaumont, Florimond Bonduel, Ramsay Crooks, Henry Dodge, George Dewey, Lucius Fairchild, Alexander J. Irwin, Andrew Jackson, James T. Lewis, Lucius Lyon, Philetus Sawyer, Horatio Seymour, John B. Sheldon, and Daniel Webster. Other papers contain information on the career of James D. Doty. Material on the Fox River Improvement Company includes correspondence with Hiram Barney, an Eastern investor in the company, some claims of Martin's against the state, and a few record books. After 1865, Martin's correspondence largely concerns the financial difficulties of the company and his efforts to meet his obligations which continued until his death. Martin was one of the promoters of the Bank of Wisconsin at Green Bay, Wisconsin and for a time its president. There are checks, notes, and drafts relating to this bank and to the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank of Detroit, Michigan and letters by Henry Stringham, cashier of the Wisconsin bank, advising and commenting on banking practices. The development of the townsite of Milwaukee, Wisconsin is enlarged upon in communications from Solomon Juneau and others, and in records of sales of lots, tax receipts, and statements of accounts. References to Indian affairs are found in traders' claims, in a letter by George Boyd in 1841, and in some Stockbridge correspondence in the 1870s. Among miscellaneous subjects touched upon are Antimasonry in Michigan Territory, the organization of the Episcopal Church in Green Bay, Wisconsin, the building of the first Milwaukee, Wisconsin courthouse, lake transportation, and land sales in the Lake Michigan region. Personal papers include correspondence with relatives and friends in Martinsburgh, Lowville, and elsewhere in New York State, and scattered account books, 1836-1848. There are some reminiscent articles written by Martin towards the end of his life and a folder of rough drafts of reminiscences by Mrs. Martin. A group of letters, land patents, and other legal documents of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries relates to ancestors of Mr. and Mrs. Martin in the colony of New York prior to the American Revolution. Also present are diaries of Mrs. Martin (nee Elizabeth Smith) kept before and after her marriage. Letters from their son, Leonard Martin, describe the work and life of a surveyor of the Northern Pacific Railroad in Montana, 1871-1872. Letters, 1873-1874, received by Leonard concern his work as assistant engineer for the Fox River Improvement project of the U.S. government. The correspondence of daughters Deborah and Sarah Martin includes many letters pertaining to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and notes, biographical sketches, and genealogical data relating to Brown County, Wisconsin. Some papers also support the disputed claim of Mrs. Martin's brother, Admiral Melancton Smith, to credit the capture of the rebel ram Manassas while he was serving as captain of the warship Mississippi. The processed portion is summarized above and is described in the register. Additional accessions date 1825-1885 and are described below.

ArchivalResource: 6.4 c.f. (15 archives boxes and 1 flat box) and.20 reels of microfilm (35 mm.); plusadditions of 0.8 c.f.

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