Correspondence to Jedidiah Morse, 1794-1824.

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Correspondence to Jedidiah Morse, 1794-1824.

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Collection contains original letters, Photostats of letters, and typed transcripts of the letters pertaining to the missionary work and government relations of the Indians. Letters are almost entirely to Jedidiah Morse. Folder 1: Handwritten guide to letters. Letters to Jedidiah Morse from: James Stacy, sent from Savannah, April 16, 1794; John Sergeant, sent from New Stockbridge, October 28, 1796, discussing the Oneida Indians; John Campbell, sent from Edinburgh, May 28, 1806, discussing schools and church; William Mathews, sent from Sandusky, March 18, 1811, discussing missionary work, Western Missionary Society, schools, Indian witchcraft. Folder 2: Letter to Jedediah Morse from: John Sergeant, sent from Vernon, October 20, 1819, discusses Eleazer Williams, Captain Hendrick Aupaumut, Delaware, Munsee and Oneida Indians and their feelings of having been deceived. Folder 3: Letter to John Chester from George Selden, sent from Troy, November 8, 1819, discusses Jedidiah Morse. Folder 4: Letters to Jedediah Morse from: John Sergeant, sent from Vernon, January 8, 1821; John Chester, sent from Albany, December 27, 1820, January 4, and 15, 1821; George (unreadable), sent from Kingston, September 4, 1821. Typed transcripts only of letter to Morse from Moses Fisk, sent from Hilham, August 19, 1817. Photostat of letters published in the book Sketches of the History, manners, and customs of the North American Indians, 1824 by James Buchaner. One letter is to De Witt Clinton from Hendrick Aupaumut et al., the other is to John Sergeant from Josiah W. Andrew, sent from Auburn, December 24, 1820. Folder 5: Letters to Morse from: H. W. Edwards, February 4, 1824, discusses General Van Rensselaer; George H. Richards, sent from Washington City, March 19, 1824; Joseph Nourse, sent from City of Washington, January 29 and April 19, 1824; D. Claus, sent from Niagara, September 12, 1821. Folder 6: Correspondence from the Museum of the American Indian and the Katonah Gallery about the loan of Stockbridge Indian pieces for an exhibit. Letters are part of the Stockbridge Indian papers.

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Sergeant, John, 1747-1824

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Missionary. From the description of Letter of John Sergeant, 1803 August 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71073227 Missionary and son of the missionary John Sergeant (1710-1749). Born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Sergeant was ordained as a minister of the Congregational church, and in 1775 took charge of the Indian part of the Stockbridge, Massachusetts, congregation. When they removed to New Stockbridge, Oneida County, New York, during the mid-1780s, he followed them and...

Nourse, Joseph, 1754-1841

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Epithet: Captain; RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000269.0x0001ed ...

Fisk, Moses, 1759-1843

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Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826

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Congregational clergyman and geographer of Connecticut and Massachusetts. From the description of Papers, 1783-1826. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58770513 From the description of Account book, 1816-1820. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58770209 Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826), a Congregational clergyman, was known as "the father of geography". His lectures on geography included Geography Made Easy (1784), the fir...

Campbell, John, 1758-1828

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Van Rensselaer, Stephen, 1764-1839

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Eighth Patroon of the Manor of Rensselaerwyck. From the description of Lease to Peter Hunt, 1793 October 23. [photostat]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122314819 8th Patroon of the Manor of Rensselaerwyck. From the description of Deed, 1801 August 22. [photostat]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122601336 ...

Andrew, Josiah W.

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Williams, Eleazer, 1787?-1858

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Correspondents include J.C. Calhoun, DeWitt Clinton, Charles DeSaileville, Jackson Kemper, L.W. Cass, L.U. Sigourney, Millard Fillmore, and affidavits. From the description of Letters and documents, 1800-1904 [microform] (Historic Deerfield Library). WorldCat record id: 30824536 Federal agent in charge of removal of Indians from New York to Wisconsin. From the description of Eleazer Williams papers, 1821-1844 (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 49569629...

Huntington Free Library

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Chester, John, 1785-1829

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Presbyterian clergyman, of Albany, N.Y. From the description of John Chester correspondence, 1819. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79453199 John Chester (1785-1829) of Wethersfield, CT. Presbyterian preacher in Marblehead and Springfield, MA, and pastor in Hudson and Albany, NY. In 1823 Chester was elected Moderator of the General Assembly. From the description of Papers, 1821-1826. (Presbyterian Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 48268980 ...

Western Missionary Society

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Richards, Geo. H. (George Hallam), 1791-1843

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Stacy, James, fl.1794.

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Mathews, William Rufus, 1947-

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Epithet: watch-maker British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000135.0x00003d ...

Aupaumut, Hendrick, 1757?-1830

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Hendrick Aupaumut was Chief of the Mohican Indians at Stockbridge, MA. From the description of Journal of a mission to the western tribes of Indians / y Hendrick Aupaumut, 1791. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 86138755 ...

Edwards, H. W, fl. 1824.

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Selden, G. C. (George Charles), 1870-

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