27 March 1718

Cuyler, Johannes, fl. 1697

Manuscript document signed

Title: Commissioners of Indian Affairs:

With Robert Livingston and Killaen Van Rensselaer. The Commissioners of Indian Affairs address the issues of the Five Nations.

GLC08353

29 November 1652

Winslow, John, fl. 1811

Manuscript document

Title: A Deed Appointed to be Recorded.

Known as the Dartmouth Purchase, this land became the town of Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Wasamequin and his son Wamsutta sold the land to Winslow, William Bradford, Myles Standish, Thomas Southworth, John Cooke, and their associates, the Purchasers and Old Comers. The deed provides the boundaries of the land and enumerates the goods and money Wasamequin and Wamsutta received in return. Copy made in the presence of Jonathan Shaw and Samuel Eedy.

GLC02924.002

1861-1865

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Oliver Hoyt

Discusses replacing commissioner of Indian affairs due to public pressure.

GLC08282

22 August 1783

Anspach, Peter, fl. 1775-1783

Autograph document signed

Title: [Provision request for Indians]

Orders rations to be issued for the use of five Indians going from Newburgh to Albany. The rations included 60 pounds of bread and 60 pounds of beef and also one gallon of rum as directed by Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Walker, an aide-de-camp to General Washington. A Thomas [Hind] signed the second page, stating that contractors delivered the rations.

GLC02437.02406

16 August 1783

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document

Title: [Note on rations]

Orders to issue rations for "Friendly Indians." Docket signed by Mr. [Robert] Bell.

GLC02437.02395

August 1783

Manuscript document

Title: Monthly abstract of extra issues, under the contract for the states of NYork & Jersey in the month of August, 1783

List of extra rations issued in August 1783. A total of 1,805 and 1/2 extra rations were issued for that month. The groups that received issues included: army prisoners, men on garrison fatigue duty, engineering department, police officers of the garrison, Indians, bargemen, discharged soldiers, artillery artificers, soldiers on command at sundry places, prisoners released from captivity, and British deserters. Colonel James Livingston was issued 155 of those extra rations.

GLC02437.02448

August 1783

Bell, William, fl. 1783-1796

Manuscript document

Title: Abstract of extra rations of provisions issued at the garrison of West Point in the month of August 1783 by William Bell Issg Commy on account of Daniel Parker & Co Contractrs

List of extra rations issued at West Point. A total of 1,021 and 1/2 extra rations were provided in August 1783. The groups that received rations included: army prisoners, men on garrison fatigue duty, the engineering department, police officers of the garrison, Indians, the Commander in Chief's bargemen, discharged persons, General Huntington's bargemen, and artillery artificers.

GLC02437.02449

10 July 1783

Walker, Benjamin, 1753-1818

Autograph document signed

Title: [Request for provisions for Indian tribe]

Request for provisions for four men in an Indian tribe. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw, with a signed docket by Hendrick Solomon.

GLC02437.02258

23 July 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document signed

Title: [Army rations issued to Captain Vincent and his followers]

Major Shaw, an aide-de-camp to General Knox, ordered James Forsyth the Commissary of West Point to issue Captain Vincent and his "companions, friendly indians" 3 pints of rum "to drink the health of Congress." Also orders 3 pounds of soap to be given to them to wash their shirts. Docket signed by Vincent that they received the rum and soap.

GLC02437.02321

25 July 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document signed

Title: [Order for rations for Captain Vincent and his companions]

Order issued by Major Shaw, an aide-de-camp to General Knox, desiring James Forsyth, Commissary of West Point, to issue 12 rations to Captain Vincent and his companions, "friendly Indians."

GLC02437.02323

30 July 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document signed

Title: [Issue of rum for Indians]

Orders to issue one quart of West Indian rum for "friendly Indians". The docket indicates the orders as General Knox orders No. 3. The order is signed as received by "Joe Indian".

GLC02437.02344

1687

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Instructions and orders]

Details instructions and orders for a Joshua [Pypon?] to scout the rivers in the Penobscot region. With specific instructions for treating with the Indians, "particularly Medockswando, the Chief Sachem." Signed by J. Willard, Secty as a true copy.

GLC02437.09948

27 June 1754

McLean, Hugh, fl. 1742-1754

Manuscript document

Title: [Petition]

Petition to Samuel Waldo regarding protection against Indian raids.

GLC02437.08976

January 20, 1878

Hemans, Nancy A., 1843-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Frances B. Shiras

Discusses her husband's declining health and how she recovered her own health, which became bad after her daughter Mary died, while camping. Notes visiting the sick via horseback. Comments on the local school, Christmas, and a visit by whites to Bazille Creek, where they heard a church service in Dakota.

GLC02429.41

14 March 1878

Hemans, Nancy A., 1843-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alexander Shiras

Discusses her husband's sickness and impending death. Comments on sympathetic visitors, her friendship with the Shiras's, and the tragedy the death will be for their son.

GLC02429.42

3 April 1878

Hemans, Nancy A., 1843-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alexander Shiras

Reports the death and burial of her husband, Daniel Hemans.

GLC02429.43

5 June 1878

Hemans, Nancy A., 1843-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Frances B. Shiras

Discusses all she has had to do since her husband's death and reveals that she is pregnant since three months before his death. Comments on her hope to be a good mother but willingness to die, if it is God's will. Discusses money problems with the Insurance League the, distribution of clothes, and supplies sent. Notes plans to get her son's picture taken and that he does not look like his father. Explains her son's reaction to the death and her inability to leave to live with a sister.

GLC02429.44

8 September 1878

Hemans, Nancy A., 1843-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Frances B. Shiras

Discusses her loneliness and friendlessness since her husband's death and how a letter from Reverend Shiras lifted her spirits. Notes that her son is growing. Asks Shiras to pray for her "that the evil will not overcome me." Comments that she would like to move away and notes that her niece has consumption.

GLC02429.45

January 18, 1879

Hemans, Nancy A., 1843-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alexander Shiras and Frances B. Shiras

Thanks them for their letter sent with five dollars. Expresses her praise for God. Notes that her son Allie is going to school at the Santee Agency and her infant son is doing well.

GLC02429.46

January 15, 1880

Hemans, Nancy A., 1843-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alexander Shiras

Explains that her health and taking care of her new baby has prevented her from writing sooner. Discusses how the baby keeps her up at night and how she and her other son were both sick recently. Compares her son's two schools, preferring the one far away (Rigg's School) but explains that she is not able to spare his help around the house. Notes a collection for a headstone for her late husband. Discusses her insurance money from the Bishop. Thanks Mrs. Shiras for a dress she sent and hopes she is well.

GLC02429.47

4 June 1880

Hemans, Nancy A., 1843-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Frances B. Shiras

Thanks Shiras and others for money sent (possibly for Daniel Hemans's grave stone). Thinks the Santee had enough money for a grave stone. Discusses her baby boy, Daniel, and his humorous actions. Comments on her other son's riding activities and his need for his own saddle. Discusses her garden positively, noting her sister's aid. Indicates she will send a picture, and describes how time and grief have transformed her from fleshy and plump to thin. Notes that Allie is now eight years old, can copy letters but not write sentences, and only studies at school. Discusses money she received from…

GLC02429.48

2 December 1880

Hemans, Nancy A., 1843-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Frances B. Shiras

Notes that her son, Allie, is at school. Explains that she visited Flandreau, Dakota, for the fall. Comments positively on a pretty clock she received.

GLC02429.49

21 April 1881

Hemans, Nancy A., 1843-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Frances B. Shiras

Comments on the new spring and the difficult past winter. Discusses her garden. Also discusses her growing children and her older son's school. Informs Shiras she is getting re-married and is worried how she will react. Describes it as a financial necessity, noting that her fiancé is a good Christian who will treat her children as his own.

GLC02429.50

27 November 1881

Hemans, Nancy A., 1843-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alexander Shiras

Explains that she did not intend to alienate her friends in the east by re-marrying and justifies the re-marriage. Discusses the children, her two and her sister's three, who also live with them, the four oldest of which are in school. Thanks an unnamed woman for money. Indicates that she has not moved from her home, as Daniel and her deceased children are buried there. Inquires about Mrs. Shiras and discusses her own health, which has improved with the coming of winter. Notes that her new husband would like to write a long letter, but cannot write well in English. Two short notes on separate…

GLC02429.51

circa August 1880

Hemans, Nancy A., 1843-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alexander Shiras and Frances B. Shiras

Thanks them for Allie's saddle. Discusses going eight miles with her son to "hunt up something" good to eat for her younger son, who had been sick with dysentery and vomiting. On that trip, her son was thrown from his horse, which made her reflect on her late husband as her protector, and how now she feels alone. Notes her plans to talk to the Bishop about insurance money. Comments on her garden. Discusses her plans to go to Flandreau, Dakota, in the fall to sell the acre of land her sister gave her there.

GLC02429.52