Records, ca. 1502-1983.

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Records, ca. 1502-1983.

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Minutes, financial papers, account books, correspondence, speeches, reports, journals, scrapbooks, legal and land related papers, maps, lists, transcripts, publications, photographs, film, video and other records of PYMIC. Includes Friendly Association records (1745-1792). PYMIC records include: minutes, 1795-1983; financial records, ca. 1776-1983; correspondence, ca. 1791-1953, includes letters from Stockbridge, Creek, Delaware, Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga, Tuscarora and other Native American tribes and individuals (Cornplanter, etc.); letters from Friends at Tunesassa, etc.; letters from government officials in U.S. War Dept., Interior Dept., etc.; reports, ca. 1793-1922; addresses to Indians from Friends, ca. 1803-1892; lists of committee members; papers related to legal, land and legislative issues, ca. 1795-1908; Friends Indian School ("Tunesassa") records, ca. 1828-1964 (photographs, reports, minutes, financial records, faculty lists, maps, student publications, film, video, etc.). Topics include: settlement and school at Tunesassa, Ogden Land Company. Buffalo Treaty of 1838, Kansas land claims, leasing of Indian land, temperance, Kinzua Dam project (Allegheny Reservoir, N.Y. and Pa.), civil rights issues, etc. U.S. Commission to locate villages in the Allegany Reservation, N.Y. ("Salamanca Commission") papers, 1871-1877, of Joseph Scattergood; journals of visits to Indians by John Pierce (1798, 1801), John Philips (1806) and Joseph Scattergood (1865); journals and letterbooks (1815-1858) of Joseph Elkinton (Tunesassa teacher 1816-1831). Papers (ca. 1789-1918) of Joseph S. Elkinton include journal, notebooks, correspondence, transcripts, etc.; 13 scrapbooks of newspaper clippings on Indians (1878-1909); 15 v. of "Indian Records" (handwritten transcripts of mss. (1502-1903) related to Indians and the Committee); issues of The Friend, 1904-1905 (review of Committee's work 1795-1894); papers (1942-1969) of Robert and Edith Reeves Solenberger include notes and report on Allegany Reservation (1942), correspondence re: Kinzua Dam project, Indian related publications (Kinzua Planning Newsletter, 1962-1967; Rosebud Sioux Herald, 1964-1966, etc.). Annual reports, etc. from Indian Aid Association of Philadelphia, Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs, etc.

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Haverford College Library

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Haverford College Library

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Solenberger, Robert R.

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Cornplanter, Seneca chief, 1732?-1836

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Cornplanter (born between 1732 and 1746–February 18, 1836), was a Seneca war chief and diplomat of the Wolf clan. As a chief warrior, Cornplanter fought in the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War. In both wars, the Seneca and three other Iroquois nations were allied with the British. After the war Cornplanter led negotiations with the United States and was a signatory of the Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784). He helped gain Iroquois neutrality during the Northwest Indian War. ...

Ogden Land Company

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Friends Indian School.

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Philips, John, 1753-1846

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Indian Committee

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The Indian Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting [PYMIC] began in 1795 and continues at the present time. The committee worked primarily with the Seneca on the Allegany and Cattaraugus Reservations (N.Y.); work was centered at Quaker Bridge ("Tunesassa"). The Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures was active as a formal organization from ca. 1756-1764. From the description of Records, ca. 1502-1983. (Haverford College Library)....

Elkinton, Joseph, 1794-1868

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Indian Aid Association of Friends of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

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Elkinton, Joseph Scotton, 1830-1905

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Joseph Scotton Elkinton (1830-1905), a Quaker, attended Westtown School in Westtown, PA, and with his brother, Thomas, went into the soap business, which later became the Philadelphia Quartz Company. He was instrumental in garnering interest and securing aid for the Doukhobors, a religious group which emigrated from Russia to Canada. He was a minister in the Society of Friends. In 1856, he married Malinda Patterson. He was author of Arrival of Doukhobors in Canada from Cyprus. From t...

Scattergood, Joseph

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Pierce, John.

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Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs

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The Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs originated in 1869 in answer to President Grant's Peace Policy, officially giving management of Indians in the Central Superintendency (Kansas and Indian Territory) to Orthodox Friends. Friends withdrew from government-sponsored work in 1879. Edward Morris Wistar was chairman of the Committee from 1895-1919. From the description of Records, 1758-1929 (bulk 1892-1917). (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 2882...

Solenberger, Edith R. (Edith Reeves), 1886-1976

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Quaker peace activist and author Edith Reeves Solenberger graduated from Radcliffe College (A.B. 1907, A.M. 1910) and lived for most of her life in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. She married Edwin Solenberger in 1913; a son, Robert, was born in 1916. From the description of Papers, 1916-1918 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232009570 Edith R. Solenberger (1886-1976) was a Quaker activist fromDelaware County, PA. In the early 1960's, the Army Corps of En...