Papers relating to the Carver land grant, 1804-1912 (bulk 1806-1821).

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Papers relating to the Carver land grant, 1804-1912 (bulk 1806-1821).

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Deeds, indentures, depositions, and other legal documents related to the Carver land grant, a territory that included hundreds of square miles in western Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota supposedly given to explorer Jonathan Carver by two Dakota chiefs in 1767, and that was the basis for subsequent land claims and speculation in the first half of the nineteenth century. The collection was compiled by Robinson Tyndale, a Philadelphia-based merchant in the China trade and land speculator, and documents what has been called one of the most notorious western land ventures in American history.

0.5 cubic feet (1 folder and 1 volume in partial box; 2 oversize folders in partial box).

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Peters, Samuel, 1735-1826

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Epithet: Secretary, Workmen's Committee for the Abolition of Foreign Bounties British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000243.0x0000cc The Jonathan Carver heirs claimed after his death that Naudowissee (Dakota) chiefs Hawnopawjatin and Otohtongoomlisheaw had granted Carver a tract of some four million acres of land on the east side of the Mississippi River running from St. Paul to the mouth of Wisconsin's Chippewa River...

Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780

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Jonathan Carver (1710-1780) was an English soldier who traveled across Wisconsin into Minnesota and back across Lake Superior in 1766-1768 in order to examine the frontier recently won from the French. From the description of Jonathan Carver diary of his travels [manuscripts], 1766-1767. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 678591181 From the guide to the Jonathan Carver diary of his travels, 1766-1767, (Oregon Historical Society Research Library...

Munn, Benjamin.

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Tyndale, Robinson, 1778 or 1779-1842

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This large land grant, which includes the present-day site of Saint Paul and a portion of what is now Minneapolis, was supposedly given to explorer Jonathan Carver by the Dakota chiefs Hawnopawjatin and Otohtongoomlisheaw in a ceremony that took place on May 1, 1767 in Carver's Cave at what is now Saint Paul. For several decades after Carver's death, his heirs and various others tried to capitalize on the grant by petitioning the United States Congress to recognize its validity, and...

Parrish, Ebenezer, 1760-1846.

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Harrison, Samuel, 1760-1812

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The Jonathan Carver heirs claimed after his death that the Dakota Indians had granted Carver a tract of some four million acres of land on the east side of the Mississippi River running from St. Paul to the mouth of Wisconsin's Chippewa River and to points east. A grant document or deed signed by chiefs Hawnopawjatin and Otohtongoomlisheaw of the Naudowissee band of Dakota Indians at Carver's Cave at present-day St. Paul on May 1, 1767, is said to have subsequently disappeared. Some scholars que...

Dow, Lorenzo, 1777-1834

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Methodist missionary and writer; landowner. From the description of Lorenzo Dow papers, 1815-1878. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 166428817 Lorenzo Dow (October 16, 1777-February 2, 1834) was a popular, eccentric American itinerant preacher and an important figure in the Second Great Awakening. He was appointed a Methodist circuit preacher in New York in 1798, but after a missionary trip to Ireland he was never connected officially with the ministry of the Methodist Church, ...