Papers [microform], 1734-1762.

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Papers [microform], 1734-1762.

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This collection includes correspondence, legal documents, muster rolls and other miscellaneous documents from Joseph Dwight during his career as a judge, Brigadier General of the Massachusetts Militia and agent in Stockbridge, Mass. These documents include accounts of Native Americans fighting alongside and against the colonists during the colonial wars. Also, the failed attempt by the colonists to have a missionary town in Stockbridge devoted to the education and Christianization of Native Americans is also described within these papers.

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