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Merrill, Moses, 1803-1840. Moses Merrill papers, 1792-1871.

Title: Moses Merrill papers, 1792-1871.

The papers consist of correspondence, reports, writings, and other documents relating to the missionary work of Moses Merrill and his wife Eliza, and extended family papers. The majority of material documents the Merrill's experience as missionaries at Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan Territory; Shawnee, Jackson County, Missouri; and at Bellevue and on the Platte River in Nebraska (Indian Territory). Merrill's correspondence with and reports to Lucius Bolles, Secretary, and Herman Lincoln, Treasurer, of the American Baptist Missionary Union, Boston, dates from 1834 to 1840, and describes the difficult living conditions of the Merrill's and their assistant Cynthia Brown; financial issues; the challenges of teaching and giving religious training to Otos, Pawnees and Omahas; the behavior and customs of the Indians, and outbreaks of cholera and smallpox among them; the illnesses of the missionaries; and the construction of living and teaching quarters near the Platte River. Individuals mentioned include Indian agent John Dougherty, government employee and Baptist mission representative Isaac McCoy, and missionary Jotham Meeker. Letters written by Merrill and Eliza to each other during brief and infrequent separations describe their activities and express their regret of being apart. Additional related material includes an 1825 letter of reference for, and a short undated holograph essay on marriage by Moses Merrill, and a manuscript copy of a document relating to the "civilization of the Indians," issued by the United States Department of War in 1830, in an unidentified hand. Eliza Merrill letters include those written to her father (1829), her brother-in-law (and later husband) Thomas W. Merrill (1829, 1848), and her sister (1833). In a letter dated 1840 Mar 29, Eliza is comforted by her sister-in-law after the death of Moses the previous month. Eliza Merrill's work with orphanages in Albany, New York, is represented by two undated reports on the "Asylum for Missionaries children," a letter dated 1843 Mar 27 to Mrs. Merrill from H. Van [O. Lindy?] regarding the institution, and a document relating to solicitation of donations by Mrs. Merrill for an orphan girls home dated 1843 Jan 27. Items documenting the life and work of Moses' father Daniel, and other family members include correspondence, sermons and essays, and miscellaneous notes and writings dating from 1792 to 1871. A printed autobiography of Daniel Merrill, published posthumously by the Baptist General Tract Society, and one of his sermons reprinted by his grandson from an issue of Zion's Advocate, accompany the papers.

ArchivalResource: 0.20 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80576328 View

Merrill, Moses, 1803-1840. Moses Merrill papers, 1792-1871.

Title: Moses Merrill papers, 1792-1871.

The papers consist of correspondence, reports, writings, and other documents relating to the missionary work of Moses Merrill and his wife Eliza, and extended family papers. The majority of material documents the Merrill's experience as missionaries at Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan Territory; Shawnee, Jackson County, Missouri; and at Bellevue and on the Platte River in Nebraska (Indian Territory). Merrill's correspondence with and reports to Lucius Bolles, Secretary, and Herman Lincoln, Treasurer, of the American Baptist Missionary Union, Boston, dates from 1834 to 1840, and describes the difficult living conditions of the Merrill's and their assistant Cynthia Brown; financial issues; the challenges of teaching and giving religious training to Otos, Pawnees and Omahas; the behavior and customs of the Indians, and outbreaks of cholera and smallpox among them; the illnesses of the missionaries; and the construction of living and teaching quarters near the Platte River. Individuals mentioned include Indian agent John Dougherty, government employee and Baptist mission representative Isaac McCoy, and missionary Jotham Meeker. Letters written by Merrill and Eliza to each other during brief and infrequent separations describe their activities and express their regret of being apart. Additional related material includes an 1825 letter of reference for, and a short undated holograph essay on marriage by Moses Merrill, and a manuscript copy of a document relating to the "civilization of the Indians," issued by the United States Department of War in 1830, in an unidentified hand. Eliza Merrill letters include those written to her father (1829), her brother-in-law (and later husband) Thomas W. Merrill (1829, 1848), and her sister (1833). In a letter dated 1840 Mar 29, Eliza is comforted by her sister-in-law after the death of Moses the previous month. Eliza Merrill's work with orphanages in Albany, New York, is represented by two undated reports on the "Asylum for Missionaries children," a letter dated 1843 Mar 27 to Mrs. Merrill from H. Van [O. Lindy?] regarding the institution, and a document relating to solicitation of donations by Mrs. Merrill for an orphan girls home dated 1843 Jan 27. Items documenting the life and work of Moses' father Daniel, and other family members include correspondence, sermons and essays, and miscellaneous notes and writings dating from 1792 to 1871. A printed autobiography of Daniel Merrill, published posthumously by the Baptist General Tract Society, and one of his sermons reprinted by his grandson from an issue of Zion's Advocate, accompany the papers.

ArchivalResource: 0.20 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702161210 View

United States Sanitary Commission records. Army and Navy Claim Agency archives, 1861-1870

Title: United States Sanitary Commission records. Army and Navy Claim Agency archives 1861-1870

The United States Sanitary Commission established the Army and Navy Claim Agency (ANCA) in Washington, D.C. on April 1, 1864 to serve as the USSC’s central office to assist Union soldiers, sailors, and their families in prosecuting claims on the federal government for pensions, back pay, bounty, commutation of rations, prize money, and other benefits, without cost. The Army and Navy Claim Agency Archives comprise the records of the Army and Navy Claim Agency; the records of the Pension Agency, its predecessor organization; the registers and cash books of its subsidiary local agencies; and the records of two quasi-independent USSC claim agencies whose origins predate the establishment of the Army and Navy Claim Agency: the Protective War Claim Association of the State of New York, located in New York City, and the Protective War Claim and Pension Agency, located in Philadelphia.

ArchivalResource: 506.37 linear feet; 1190 boxes, 46 volumes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/18809 View

Merrill, Daniel. Glass / Daniel Merrill.

Title: Glass / Daniel Merrill. c2007.

ArchivalResource: 1 score (19 p.) ; 22 x 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233034368 View