Cotton manuscripts, 1722-1795.

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Cotton manuscripts, 1722-1795.

Executive papers. Primarily documents relating to Indians and Indian tribes. Also includes correspondence to and from Governor Robert Eden (1774-1776). Thirty-three folders.

1.5 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6747164

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Eden, Robert, 1741-1784

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Robert Eden was born on 2 September 1804. He was educated at Westminster School and studied at Christ Church, Oxford. He was ordained as a deacon and priest by the Bishop of Gloucester in 1828 and then he served in Weston-sub-Edge in Gloucestershire and at Messing and Peldon in Essex. He became Rector of Leigh, Essex, in 1837. It was while he was in Leigh that he accepted the offer of the Scottish Episcopalian Bishopric of Moray and Ross on the death of Bishop Low, and he was consecrated at St. ...