Box 1

Scope and Contents The material in this folder was bound together with a paper labeled "Miscellaneous papers 1844". Most of the material are letters, primarily 1837-1838, between Griffith M. Cooper, Genesee YM and Joseph Warner, Philadelphia YM, concerning the need for financial support from the Four Yearly Meetings for the Indian School in Cataraugus, New York and controversy within the Seneca Nation regarding new treaties. Bound together with this material is corres. dated 1846 betweem U.S. War Dept. Office...

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Includes ALS from P.E. Thomas, Baltimore to Richard Price, Philadelphia, re: controversy of the strong abolitionist stance of some Quakers; Manuscript drafts for "Proposed plan of operation for the Education and further improvement of the Indians;" Manuscript minutes of the gen. meeting of the Delegates of the Four YM held in NYC, and the report from agent G. M. Cooper submitted to the Committee, including financial report.

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Includes manuscript draft of memorandum of relating to a meeting with the Seneca; manuscript lists of scholars at the Indian School and curriculum; manuscript report of visit to Quaker school; manuscript papers concerning decline of the school and proposed end to involvement from the Four Yearly Meetings.

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Includes 35 letters, some undated and only fragments, primarily between Rachel Tyson Jackson and family and friends, both before and after her marriage. Topics include the illness of her father and a recommendation for a potential applicant to teach at the Sharon Female School in a letter from L. Seaman. The letters are arranged chronologically with the undated letters in the front of the file.