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Quakers -- Relations with Indians

 Subject
Subject Source: Local Authority: Quaker Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Halliday Jackson Manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-182
Overview Halliday Jackson (1771-1835) was a Quaker minister from New Garden and Darby, Pa.. From 1798 to 1800 he joined the Quaker mission to the Seneca Indians organized by the Indian Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Shortly after his return from the mission to the Seneca, Halliday Jackson married Jane Hough and moved to Darby, Pa. Following Jane's death in 1830, Halliday Jackson remarried in 1833 to Ann P. Paschall (1792-1874), also a Quaker minister. These records contain documents...
Dates: 1755-1833

Miscellaneous manuscripts relating to Native Americans and Quakers

 Collection — Othertype SC-285
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

Letters and reports concerning Quakers work with Native Americans in Nebraska

 Collection — Othertype SC-293
Identifier: SFHL-SC-293
Overview

This small collection contains letters and reports concerning Friends work with Native Americans in Nebraska during the era of Grant's Peace Policy.

Dates: 1793, 1867-1885 and undated; Majority of material found within 1867 - 1888

Eleanor Wills Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-309
Overview

This collection contains two letters written by Gladys Fatty and Lois Marjorie Doctor to Eleanor Wills in 1937. Eleanor Wills was a teacher at the Friends Indian School, (also known as the Tunesassa Friends School) in Quaker Bridge, New York. Fatty and Doctor were both students of Wills at this school.

Dates: 1937