Box 26

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Printed reports

Scope and Contents Volume titled "Papers relating to the Salamanaca [sic] Commission"Includes:Narrative diary, 1871: Kept by Scattergood giving background of division of Cornplanter land among heirs of Cornplanter ["John O'Bail"]; lists of heirs who signed petition to allow partition of land, Orphans' Court of Warren County, New York, then names Thomas Wistar, Ebenezer Worth and Joseph Scattergood commissioners to make partition and allotment of estate of Cornplanter. Includes...

Scope and Contents 1971-1975: ca. 43 items: Letters, printed circulars, newspaper clippings These are chiefly letters [addressed to Joseph Scattergood] from George Barker, John Manly, Harrison Halftown, Eli K. Price, James G. Johnson, W.R. Irwin, Henry Shanklin, Josiah Davis1876: ca. 43 items: Letters, printed circulars, drafts of reports, newspaper clippings. These are chiefly letters [addressed to Joseph Scattergood] from Henry Shanklin, John Manly, D. Sherman, Z. Chandler [Interior Department],...

Scope and Contents Includes:Photographs, letters from Eva Watson [at Skiatook school - addressed to Edward M. Wistar and are identical in style to those in AEOFOIA papers in ms. coll. 1003], map, memorial of John P. Haworth (1912), article on Oklahoma Native American missions from the "American Friend" 1916, registration form and program for 1974 meeting, typed letter (9/13/1933) of J.M. Steere to Marriott C. Morris re: land at Shawnee, "The Shawnee War Dance" by Esther Ruger, list of contributors...

Scope and Contents Note with volumes: "Please compare these books with the accounts we have in manuscript that had been copied on Record Paper these books came from Joseph [Willis? Walton?] or his executors"4 small journals of John Pierce as follows: 4/30/1798 - 6/2/1798: Inscribed on front cover as "John Pierce's" and at top of page 1 "Notes on a visit to the Seneca Nation of Indians by Joshua Sharples and John Pierce. 1798"6/23/1798 - 7/8/1798: with note "fragment of John Pierce's...

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"Some account of a visit paid to the Indians. 9th month 1806 by John Philips, Halliday Jackson and Isaac Bonsall" [ca. 60 p.]