Papers, 1883-1904.

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Papers, 1883-1904.

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Collection of Tooker's manuscripts and texts of his speeches, many concerning Indian place names in New York City, Long Island, Virginia, and other areas. Other manuscripts include history of Indians on Long Island, and their land claims, 1883-1902. Museum of the American Indian Library houses publications of some of Tooker's papers. Tooker and O.B. Ackerly handcopied some Long Island Indian deeds. Tooker also copied parts of William Struchey's A DICTIONARY OF THE POWHATAN LANGUAGE; a translation of the Bible into the Natick language native to Massachusetts, arranged alphabetically by Tooker in 1904; and a dictionary of the Natick language. Collection also includes some manuscripts of other researchers such as Orville B. Ackerly about related subjects, some correspondence, and a map.

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Ackerly, Orville B.

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Suffolk County (N.Y.) Clerk. From the description of Suffolk County foreclosure records, 1913-1916. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155565383 Real estate broker. From the description of Papers, 1848-1909. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155563840 ...

Tooker, William Wallace, 1848-1917

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Authority on Algonquian Indian language, history, and culture; resident of Sag Harbor, New York. From the description of Long Island New York Indian vocabularies: glossary, [189-]. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58758383 William Wallace Tooker once was widely recognized as one of his era's leading specialists in Coastal Algonquian culture, history and place names. A productive and prolific writer, he published 12 books, some 50 pamphlets and over...

Struchey, William.

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