Red Jacket's speech : Buffalo Creek manuscript 1802-1804 Sept. 28, 1803.

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Red Jacket's speech : Buffalo Creek manuscript 1802-1804 Sept. 28, 1803.

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Original manuscript interpreter's/translator's draft of Red Jacket's speech, written and corrected in David Thompson's hand, 3 1/2 pages, approx. 750 words. Manuscript letter from David Thompson to the British officer, Thomas Gamble, detailing Thompson's duties at Fort Niagara; dated Recklesstown, New Jersey, Sept. 12, 1804. Manuscript document verifying marriage of David Thompson and Jane Gamble dated March 28, 1802.

8 p. ; 36 cm.

The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library

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The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library

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Red Jacket, Seneca chief, approximately 1756-1830

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David Thompson was the postmaster, contractor's agent and commissary at Fort Niagara Garrison, New York, 1797-1804. From the description of Red Jacket's speech : Buffalo Creek manuscript 1802-1804 Sept. 28, 1803. (Tulsa City-County Library). WorldCat record id: 262845953 Red Jacket was a Seneca chief who was born ca. 1756 at or near Canoga, Seneca County, New York. He remained faithful to the British during the Revolutionary War. In 1792 he visited P...