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Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-043
Abstract
Correspondence, including that with civil and military authorities, accounts of preliminary meetings with Indian delegates, and invoices, relating to the Treaty of Easton.
Dates:
1758-1762
Miscellaneous manuscripts relating to Native Americans and Quakers
Collection — Container: Folder
Identifier: SFHL-SC-285
Overview
Fragments and copies of manuscripts concerning Quaker (probably Philadelphia Yearly Meeting) activities relating to Native American. Some of these may be contemporary manuscript copies of documents in the Friendly Association or the Indian Committee records.
Dates:
1761 - 1839
Jonah Thompson correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-131
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence received by English Quaker Jonah Thompson. The bulk of these are written by Friends in Pennsylvania, relating the developing conflict between the Pennsylvania government and the Delaware Indians, and expressing concern with the role Quakers should have in a military defense of the colony. Included is a detailed account of developments regarding this issue in the Pennsylvania government by James Pemberton. Other prominent Philadelphia correspondents...
Dates:
1756-1759
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- Indians of North America -- Government relations 1
- Indians of North America -- Government relations -- to 1789 1
- Mennonites -- Pennsylvania 1
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- Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775 1
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- Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures 2
- Churchman, George, 1730-1814 1
- Doe Run Valley Books (Dealer) 1
- Fothergill, Samuel 1
- Logan, Hannah, 1723-1777 1
- Pemberton, Hannah, 1734-1764 1
- Pemberton, James, 1723-1809 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Committee Appointed for the Gradual Civilization and Welfare of the Indian Natives (1795-1827) 1
- Smith, John, 1722-1771 1
- Thompson, Jonah, 1702 or 1703-1780 1
- Wistar, Margaret, 1728?-1793 1 ∧ less
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