Records of Grants for Work among the Indians, 1720-1812

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Records of Grants for Work among the Indians, 1720-1812

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These records document Harvard’s administrative and financial sponsorship of missionary work among several Native American tribes between 1720 and 1812. The collection includes the missionary journals of Samuel Kirkland (1741-1808), who lived among the Oneida tribe in New York for more than forty years, and John Sergeant (1747-1824), who lived among the Stockbridge tribe in Massachusetts and New York for almost fifty years. In addition to their documentation of Sergeant's and Kirkland's ministerial work and daily lives in the Indian settlements, these journals also provide information about the tribes' internal struggles; their negotiations, settlements and relationships - largely concerning land holdings - with the colonists and later the American government; the establishment of schools for Indian children; and other important tribal matters.

1.63 cubic feet; (2 document boxes, 1 flat box, 2 microfilm boxes)

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