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circa 1770-1785
Unknown
Major General Rogers
Engraving of Tory officer Robert Rogers in uniform shown holding hands with a Native American Indian.
GLC01450.201.02
4 May 1764
Gage, Thomas, 1718-1787
to Sir William Johnson
Re: Suppression of Pontiac's rebellion which, "I am to hope will put a final end to all our Indian Quarrells, and procure us a safe & lasting Peace with all the Indian Tribes."
GLC08378
circa 1780
Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796
[Notes from the Pennsylvania Executive Council regarding pardons, appointments, and appropriations of funds].
Wayne notes that on 6 January 1780, the Executive Council pardoned William Cassidy and Peter Swope, both of whom were "convicted of high treason--on condition that he serve as a soldier during the present war in one of the regiments of this State..."...
GLC08497
1766/02/13
B. Franklin and D. Hall (Firm)
Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1938 (February 13, 1766)]
The lead article on p. 1 criticizes the Stamp Act. A letter from Charleston, also on the front page, notes that there are too few Sons of Liberty there. A brief extract from Albany Fort on p. 2 reports Indians taking scalps. News of other...
GLC08803
18 September 1779
Brodhead, Daniel (1736-1809)
to Doonyontat, Principal Chief of the Wyandots (Huron Indians)
Speech by Maghingwee Keeshuch [Daniel Brodhead] to the Huron Indians demanding that they cease attacks against American settlers and troops, and that they aid in the Revolution against the British, "casting off that bad father the King of Britain...
GLC09029
29 October 1782
Drury, Luke (fl. 1782)
to Jonathan Ward
Complaint to former commander, now Worcester Co. J.P., Jonathan Ward, about public slander by Joseph Perry. Quotes Perry as saying he was never fit to be a colonel, that he cowardly ran from battle at Bunker Hill, and that he committed adultery with...
GLC09049.01
1777-1778
Advanced Corps
Complaints of the Advanced Corps over the implementation of the Articles of Convention after the Battle of Saratoga. Date inferred from other documents in this collection, which have similar complaints around the end of 1777. Place written inferred...
GLC04764.41
circa 1777-1786
[Rules for enlisting men for service]
Provides a set of guidelines for enlisting men into the service. Includes rules stating "Neither Negroes, Mulattoes, or Indians, shall be inlisted [sic] in the Service of the United States. Every Man under five Feet six Inches in Height shall be...
GLC02437.08189
September 1779
Walton, George, 1740-1804
to Benjamin Lincoln
Written by Walton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and Colonel in the First Georgia Battalion who was severely wounded and captured during the Battle of Savannah in December 1778, to Lincoln as commander of the Southern Department. Walton...
GLC01019
21 October 1782
Allen, Paul, 1742-?
to Asa Waterman
Informs him of the return of "our Brother Capt Joseph Cashman." Says Mr. Cushing's child "the sicked child that ever I saw." News arrived from Newfoundland of the "Royal George" sinking in port, and 1,300 people dying. Around eight hundred people...
GLC01450.242
26 March 1764
to Stephen Hopkins
General Gage to reiterate request of Rhode Island Governor Hopkins troops to fight "against the Savages" in the French and Indian War.
GLC01450.257
24 October 1776
Yeates, Jasper, 1745-1817
[Receipt from Commisioners of Indian Affairs to Barnard Gratz]
A receipt for one hundred sixty pounds, twelve shillings owed to Gratz. Signed for by Thomas Walker, John Harvie, John Montgomery, and Jasper Yeates as the "Commissioners for Indian Affairs." The verso is signed by Gratz, as well as Joseph Simon...
GLC01450.503
20 October 1781-19 December 1781
[1781 military orderly book]
Mentions regiments from Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire. Entries relate to daily orders, court martials, troop duties and movement, equipment and supplies, arms, and clothing. Assigns the officers for each day. Entry on...
GLC01450.015
circa 1775-1776
Richardson, Samuel, 1748-1836
[Poem honoring Colonel Moses Parker of Chelmsford]
Poem in 22 stanzas honoring Colonel Moses Parker, killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill, 17 June 1775. First stanza says: "Come all who have skill and Lament / and let your hearts and eyes have vent / While you to memory do call / The Valient Colonel...
GLC01450.050
March 1, 1781
Schuyler, Philip John, 1733-1804
to Henry Glen
Schuyler, then a major general in the Continental Army, reports to Glen, an agent for Indian affairs, complaints from Indians that they cannot mend their axes for want of iron and that "their women are almost naked and Incapable to fetch a...
GLC01406
May 29, 1775
Green, Robert, fl. 1775
to his brother
Cosigned by Mary Green. Says he has been in bad health for the past five weeks. Hopes to get better by the grace of God. Says their sister has a new daughter three months old. References a letter that came from several brothers and sisters. Hopes he...
GLC01412.31
14 January 1779
Grayson, William, 1736-1790
[Legal agreement for sale of land]
Co-signed with William Trent on verso. Witnessed by Francis Lee, Cornelius C. Roosevelt, and an illegible name. Legal agreement made for the transfer of ownership of Indian land. Made between Colonel William Grayson, a wealthy Virginia landowner and...
GLC01412.47
1779/06/20
Beckman, Ijerich, fl. 1779
re: marching to attack Iroquois Indians, burning villages
GLC01450.801
20 July 1780
Pottwatomi Indian Nation, fl. 1780
Land grant to Maj. Arent Schuyler De Peyster (Detroit area)
Land grant to Arent Schuyler De Peyster, Major in the King's 8th Regiment at Detroit. De Peyster has signed on the back where he turns-over his ownership to a nephew. Signed with pictographs by the representatives of the following Indian tribes, all...
GLC01450.808
6 December 1764
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Pennsylvania gazette. [no. 1876 (December 6, 1764)]
Printed by Benjamin Franklin and D. Hall. Contains Governor William Penn's acceptance of a temorary peace with the Delawares and Shawnees. Penn appoints William Johnson as agent to negotiate final peace treaty. Declaration signed on 5 December...
GLC01713.02
27 October 1776
to Elias Dayton
Written by Major General Schuyler as commander of the Northern Department, to Colonel Elias Dayton of the 3rd New Jersey Regiment. Sent by Schuyler when Dayton's regiment was marching north from Schenectady. Dayton's troops were being sent to the...
GLC01580
1780/12/24
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Orders re: to take charge as Commissary of Virginia militia
Signed as Governor of Virginia, mentioning troops being sent "to Fort Pitt on their way down the Ohio" when Indians were raiding the western borders. The close and "thirty thousand pounds" are in Jefferson's hand.
GLC01967
June 4, 1776
Hancock, John, 1737-1793
to the Convention of Maryland
Written by Hancock as President of the Continental Congress. Begins by saying "Our affairs are hastening fast to a Crisis; and the approaching Campaign will in all Probability, determine for ever the Fate of America." Says the king and Parliament...
GLC00639.12
1780, 1798
Two documents relating to Indian land in Indian Mills, Burlington County, New Jersy [Decimalized]
GLC00540
6 January 1780
Calvin, Bartholomew, fl. 1780-1798
[Statement opposing white settlement on Indian land in Brotherton, New Jersey]
A strong statement signed by eight Indians showing alarm over white settlers moving onto their land, forbidding it in the future, making illegitimate leases null and void, and voicing hopes to "live in Quietness among one another without giving any...
GLC00540.01
22 September 1782
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
to George Washington
Written by Major General Knox to General Washington. Says he arrived at camp to find that 22 American women and children, formerly prisoners who had travelled from Canada, were seeking assistance. They travelled down from Vermont to Albany, New York...
GLC02437.01624
2 February 1782
Burnet, Ichabod, fl. 1778-1782
to Henry Knox
Writes, "I arrived at this place on my way to West Point but the ice has prevented me from proceeding any further and I am obligated to return to Carolina immediately which makes it necessary for me to go to Newark immediately. The brave I have...
GLC02437.01347
1775/09/21-1775/11/15
Morgan, George, 1743-1810
Minutes and Agreements of the Indiana Company
A "true copy of the minutes" made by George Morgan re: various minutes and agreements pertaining to the Indiana company, which speculated in land along the Ohio river. In an 1768 treaty Indians had ceded a large tract of land to the "unfortunate...
GLC02441
August 19, 1782
Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803
to James Madison
Progress of peace negotiations, his nephew's missing slave, Anthony Wayne and Indian Wars, American independence and restitution. Also mentions: Edmund Pendleton, Jr. (nephew)-Runaway slave of, Anthony Wayne, Gen. Carlton, Gen. Washington, Peace...
GLC00099.094
August 12, 1782
to James Madison re: British troop movements, tobacco crop, Indians
British troop movements in Carolinas, tobacco crop, Indian wars. Also mentions: French fleet, Charleston (S.C.), Dutch fleet, West Indies, Colonel Crawford, Indian wars, Tobacco crop.
GLC00099.093
October 14, 1782
to James Madison re: negotiations in Paris, British troops leaving
Negotiations in Paris, withdrawal of British troops. Mentions: Peace negotiations, Paris (France), British troops-Withdrawal of, Indian wars.
GLC00099.098
July 31, 1776
to Richard Varick
Written by General Schuyler as commander of Northern Department to Captain Varick as deputy muster master general of the Northern army. Schuyler says he only received Varick's letter of 27 July 1776 yesterday afternoon. If cannot get certain articles...
GLC00496.082
August 26, 1777
Mumford, Giles, 1759-1795
to Thomas Mumford
Written by Giles Mumford as a soldier under Lieutenant Colonel Meigs to his father Thomas Mumford, a Groton, Connecticut merchant. References his father's letters of 11 and 13 August 1777. Says he has not received his powder puff, nor his cups, but...
GLC00496.075.02
October 23, 1779
Parsons, Samuel H., 1737-1789
Written by General Parsons to Mumford, a Groton, Connecticut merchant. Thanks him for his letter of 17 October 1779. Thanks him for procuring a place for his son, but is against him going on the ship "Trumbull" with Captain Nicholson. Would rather...
GLC00496.075.06
10 July 1776
Rutherford, Griffith, 1721-1805
to The Honorable Council of Safety of North Carolina
Describes Indian unrest in the frontier. Hopes to negotiate a treaty. Awaits instructions from the Council. Rutherford served as a general in the Revolution and in 1776 was successful in subduing the Cherokee Nation in North Carolina.
GLC00496.081
1769/07/28
Iroquois Nation
Six Nations. Document signed with the holograph totems of 14 chiefs.
A reciept acknowledging the final payment for land ceded by the Six Nations at the Treaty of Fort Stanwix. With the loss of these lands the Six Nations eventually dispersed: the Mohawk and Cayuga to Canada, the Oneida to Wisconsin, while the Onondaga...
GLC02548
1779/11/09
Hunter, Samuel, ?-1784
to Joseph Reed
Outlines the best positions for troops to defend the area, reports on Indian attack and scalping, and fears another attack.
GLC02636
1767/08/20
Flagg, James, fl. 1767
to Gov. Francis Bernard
Informs Governor Bernard that Asten is "the person suspected by the Indians," for being responsible for "the Murder and Robbery of some of their Brethren." Asten was believed to be robbing the Indians of furs. Numerous people, including Indians, saw...
GLC03002.04
1767/09/10
Hutchinson, Thomas, 1711-1780
[Order to sheriffs, deputies & constables to arrest Asten for murdering Indians]
Signed as Chief Justice of Massachusetts, with the last paragraph in his hand. Orders to find and arrest Daniel Asten and Francis Douglass as "the Perpetrators of the murder and robbery," against certain Indians. In the document Asten's name is...
GLC03002.05
1 July 1779 - 24 May 1780
Van Dyke, Cornelius, fl. 1775-1783
[American Revolution orderly book of the 2nd New York with garrison orders for Fort Schuyler]
Orderly book with orders issued by Lieutenant Colonel Cornelius Van Dyke and Major John Graham, some signed and in their hand. Notable orders relate to a Fourth of July celebration and General Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga. Many others concern...
GLC03158
1775/06/07
Duane, James, fl. 1763-1785
to Robert Livingston, Jr. re: outrage at Great Britain and support for war
"Our publick affairs are at length arrived at the most dangerous Extremity. The ministry with inflexible obstinacy persevere in that inhuman system of Despotism which was contrived to rob us of our Liberties; and because we cannot submit to so...
GLC03107.03331
1776/06/12
Livingston, Walter, 1740-1797
to Robert Livingston, Jr. re: report of affairs in Canada
Walter writes that their Commanding Officer behaved most cowardly at the battle at Cead[us] and allowed all of his men to be taken prisoner, while others were massacred by Indians. He notes that he has had conlficting accounts of the war in Canada...
GLC03107.03346
22 June 1766
to William Johnson
General Gage about securing evidence against a spy at Johnson Hall and George Croghan's report from Fort Pitt about murders of Indians and white encroachment on their land. In regard to the latter, he contends that the white settlers at Redstone...
GLC03238
15 April 1779- 17 October 1780
Brodhead, Daniel, 1736-1809
[Brodhead's Revolutionary War letterbook]
Includes various letters written by Colonel Brodhead, commander of the Western Department in Pittsburgh. Early entries in this book are created in Pittsburgh, while later entries are created at Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania. This book begins with a list...
GLC02867.01
1779/04/21
Washington, George, 1732-1799
to Col. Daniel Brodhead re: wish to chastise the western Indians and Iroquois
Washington notes that supplies, communications and other hazards make any operation difficult and orders Brodhead to make preparation for a joint expedition. Brodhead did pacify Indians along the Alleghany, 1779-1780.
GLC02867.02
4 April 1779
to unknown
Written by Major General Schuyler to an unknown recipient, but seller's description says it is probably to Continental Congressman James Duane. References recipients letter of 20 March and another undated letter. Says the president, probably...
GLC02545
10 October 1777- 11 April 1778
Hand, Edward, 1744-1802
[Hand's Revolutionary War letterbook]
Many letters contained within this book were created at Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania. Various other locations are noted. A typed biography and a partial list of persons to whom Hand's letters were written are included with this book. "Copies of Letters...
GLC03426
1774/10/15
Stevenson, John, fl. 1765-1787
to Robert Livingston, Jr. re: request for more stoves
Stevenson asks Robert, Jr. to send him some more stoves to make up for being over-charged on the last shipment. He also states that he has tried to procure some Indian deer skins, but has not had any luck thus far.
GLC03107.03314
1769/04/14
Livingston, Peter Robert, fl. 1765-1790
to Robert Livingston, Jr. re: sending a trading vessel to Quebec
Peter Robert informs his father that he is sending a trading vessel to Quebec, and believes that his debts will soon be secured. With a copy of Governor Aubry's letter to Peter Robert, 11 July 1769, New Orleans, in which Aubry states that he has not...
GLC03107.03195
25 August 1778
McIntosh, Lachlan, 1725-1806
to Lieutenant of Berkeley County, Virginia
Conveying instructions of Virginia Governor Patrick Henry to contribute militia for McIntosh's expedition into Indian Territory. Asks for three hundred fully armed men and requests that they be enlisted for the longest possible duration because...
GLC04818
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