circa June 1872

Hemans, Daniel Wright, fl. 1872-1881

Map

Title: [Hand-drawn map of Dakota mission area]

Depicts the missions and Indian agencies along about fifty miles of the Missouri River west of Sioux City. Hemans discusses making the map for Frances Shiras to answer her question about the spatial relationship between the Santee, Yankton, and Ponca agencies in GLC02429.04. GLC02429.03 appears to be a draft of the map.

GLC02429.04

23 February 1871

Hemans, Daniel Wright, fl. 1872-1881

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Frances B. Shiras

Thanks Frances for her help and interest in his missionary work. Describes his mission work at the Yankton Agency with Reverend James Cook. Notes his improving health. Discusses teaching, singing, and language issues. Comments on privations at the mission and dependency on provisions from Sioux City. Describes his log house next to the chapel.

GLC02429.05

17 April 1871

Hemans, Daniel Wright, fl. 1872-1881

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Frances B. Shiras

Inquires about the money his friends sent. Describes the Christian, English-speaking Indian girl he is engaged to. Notes his salary of $150/year, and indicates it will be insufficient. Discusses his log house and preparing his home for housekeeping, referring to his upcoming marriage. Comments on his upcoming ordination and Rev. James Cook's desire for him to remain a while longer at the Yankton mission to continue as interpreter. Discusses family news, including an uncle planning to preach at Crow Creek.

GLC02429.06

16 May 1871

Hemans, Daniel Wright, fl. 1872-1881

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Frances B. Shiras

Discusses a visit by Bishop Clarkson, missionary appointments, and his upcoming ordination. Discusses his wedding, attended by over 150 whites and Indians. Notes that Mr. Hinman gave him charge of the Santee mission starting in summer, but he will not start until fall when his replacement will arrive.

GLC02429.07

25 May 1871

Hemans, Daniel Wright, fl. 1872-1881

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Frances B. Shiras

Discusses a visit by Bishop Clarkson during which he was ordained a deacon and many Indians were baptized. Notes his plans to stay at the Yankton mission through the summer because he is needed to translate for Rev. James Cook. This is the first letter in the collection signed "Rev" Hemans.

GLC02429.08

27 May 1871

Prichard, A. A., fl. 1871-1881

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Frances B. Shiras

Discusses Daniel and Nancy Hemans's recent wedding, attended by Indians and whites on a very rainy day. Notes Daniel's bad health and susceptibility to consumption.

GLC02429.09

3 May 1871

Brown, Stewart, fl. 1871-1881

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Frances B. Shiras

Indicates he has sent a $50 wedding gift to Daniel Hemans and sends his well-wishes.

GLC02429.10

8 June 1871

Hemans, Daniel Wright, fl. 1872-1881

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Frances B. Shiras

Discusses money Shiras sent. Comments on the cultivation being done by Yanktons on the reservation and their reception of annuity money. Discusses his wife, including her conversion from Presbyterian to Episcopalian. Comments on their garden. Includes a short note from Nancy about her interest in Shiras's last letter.

GLC02429.11

8 December 1871

Hemans, Daniel Wright, fl. 1872-1881

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Frances B. Shiras

Comments on the length between their correspondence. Reports the freezing death of Rev. Philip Johnson. Discusses preaching with Rev. Cook at Santee. Indicates his cousin Paul was sick. Discusses his missionary work at Yankton, including the baptisms of chiefs, preaching and translating. Comments on the log house and furnishings they bought with money received (likely from Shiras).

GLC02429.12

12 January 1872

Hemans, Daniel Wright, fl. 1872-1881

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Frances B. Shiras

Discusses a Christmas festival and provides an update on their missionary work, particularly in regard to education. Notes that his wife has charge of the Mother's Services. Expresses his dedication to "bring some souls to our service." Describes a visit to Santee, where he saw family and preached. Reports that his horse killed herself. Mentions that Nancy will write.

GLC02429.13

13 January 1872

Hemans, Nancy A., 1843-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Frances B. Shiras

Writes about how they are getting along, discussing her health. Comments on a potential visit by Shiras. Explains why her upbringing (part with Indians, part with whites) has resulted in her only being to make Santee moccasins with beads and not porcupine quills. Mentions that they have a girl in their house who only speaks Dakota. Discusses their women prayer meetings.

GLC02429.14

1 February 1872

Hemans, Daniel Wright, fl. 1872-1881

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alexander Shiras

Explains that he has not responded to a recent letter because he was ill. Thanks some friends for medicine they sent. Mentions Paul's hemorrhage. Discusses the status of two reservation churches, neither of which had a minister.

GLC02429.15

24 February 1872

Hemans, Daniel Wright, fl. 1872-1881

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Frances B. Shiras

Thanks Shiras for the money she sent from friends Sunday school children. Discusses his missionary work and his desire to convert his Indian countrymen. GLC02429.17 is a copy of this letter.

GLC02429.16

26 February 1872

Hemans, Daniel Wright, fl. 1872-1881

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Frances B. Shiras

Thanks her for a box of clothing from Mrs. Clement. Indicates they will use some for their new baby and have already given some away. Mentions the Indian agent, a physician who gave him medicine. Discusses his desire for wrappers. Comments on speaking English with his wife and a mixed race adolescent girl in their household. GLC02429.19 is a copy.

GLC02429.18

26 February 1872

Hemans, Daniel Wright, fl. 1872-1881

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to Frances B. Shiras

Thanks her for a box of clothing from Mrs. Clement. Indicates they will use some for their new baby and have already given some away. Mentions the Indian agent, a physician who gave him medicine. Discusses his desire for wrappers. Comments on speaking English with his wife and a mixed race adolescent girl in their household. Copy of GLC02429.18.

GLC02429.19

22 March 1872

Hemans, Nancy A., 1843-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Frances B. Shiras

Mentions the birth of her son, Joseph. Thanks Mrs. Clement for clothes, some of which she gave away. Comments on the success of the missionary work, claiming that the Indians on the reservation could now hold services without ministers. Notes their success in school and religious conversion. Tells of the recent breaking of the ice and the tragic deaths of several children over the winter. Notes that their new son's middle name comes from Shiras's husband, Alexander.

GLC02429.20

18 April 1872

Hemans, Nancy A., 1843-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Frances B. Shiras

Reports than she is sending moccasins made like slippers, which will need soles added by a shoemaker. Notes spring is coming and the baby is growing. States her desire to have her first picture taken if a photographer comes in the summer. Comments that she is looking forward to a visit from Mr. and Mrs. Hinman and that she has been ironing all day.

GLC02429.21

1 May 1872

Hemans, Daniel Wright, fl. 1872-1881

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Frances B. Shiras

Reports that his health has improved. Discusses his growing baby, and naming him after Alexander Shiras. Comments on other Indian clergy that are ill. Discusses the child of Andrew Jones, one of the Indian teachers, who was expected to die and received an emergency baptism from Daniel. The child survived. Indicates he did not receive money sent, which he explains went to the Commissioners.

GLC02429.22

12 May 1872

Hemans, Nancy A., 1843-?

Autograph letter

Title: to Frances B. Shiras

Apologizes for not writing and explains how various chores have kept her too busy. Notes that Cecelia, the half-Indian girl living with her has gone to live with Reverend James Cook. Discusses separation from her husband Daniel. Apologizes for not naming their baby after Frances. Mentions Paul, who is sick and attempting to recuperate. Notes that Convocation is coming up.

GLC02429.23

5 June 1872

Hemans, Daniel Wright, fl. 1872-1881

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Frances B. Shiras

Discusses his wife's trip to the Santee Agency to visit relatives, his growing son, and sick Paul's attempt to build a log cabin on his land claim. Mentions the health of other Indian clergy. Discusses his income in the face of high prices in Yankton vs. Santee. Indicates he will make a map to answer her question about the spatial relationship between the Santee, Yankton, and Ponca agencies (see GLC02924.03 and GLC02924.04).

GLC02429.24

9-12 June 1872

Hemans, Nancy A., 1843-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Frances B. Shiras

Discusses a visit from Daniel's aunt and the porcupine quill moccasins she had made for Frances. Comments on her sister, a visitor named Mrs. Rumney, and her husbands adoration for their baby. Continues the letter on 12 June, comments on intervening chores, and a visit to a sun dance. Gives the Dakota word for mother and explains that she speaks English to her baby daily. Mentions that Daniel, her husband, sometimes speaks to her in English. Comments on her husband's pay.

GLC02429.25

21 July 1872

Hemans, Daniel Wright, fl. 1872-1881

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Frances B. Shiras

Reports than his family will leave the Yankton Mission for the Santee Mission. Explains that the Yanktons are sorry to see him leave, but he must go because of health problems related to his work on Sunday and the opportunity to make a prayer book in Santee.

GLC02429.26

17 September 1872

Hemans, Daniel Wright, fl. 1872-1881

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alexander Shiras

Mentions starting work at Santee and his growing son. Discusses the health of Paul and Christian Taopi, a fellow Indian preacher, whose death seemed imminent. Taopi expressed no fear in dying, but regretted not having more time to preach. Sends congratulations for a recent engagement.

GLC02429.27

22 November 1788

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document

Title: [Protest]

Noted as a copy. A formal protest to the Eastern Committee by Henry Knox, [Joseph Winslow], Isaac Winslow, and Samuel Winslow concerning the patent [Waldo patent]. The protest appears to deal with the legal boundaries and the amount of land that is part of the [Waldo?] patent. Appears the heirs of the Waldo patent are missing 39,088 acres of land from the patent.

GLC02437.09209

31 May 1759

Manuscript document

Title: [Burial of Samuel Waldo]

An announcement of General Samuel Waldo's death. The notice describes the history of Waldo's death and the location of his burial. Noted on last page, "Printed in the N.Y. Historical & Genealogical Register for October 1882."

GLC02437.09210