Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Thomas Wistar Brown papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1321
Abstract
Correspondence, letter books, diaries, scrapbooks, account books, deeds, marriage certificates, genealogical material, and miscellaneous manuscript and printed items of, or about, Thomas Wistar Brown (1826-1916), his father Moses Brown (1793-1878), his mother Mary (Wistar) Brown (b. 1807), his brother Moses Brown (b. 1829), his wife Mary (Farnum) Brown, his son John Farnum Brown (1873-1894) and others. Under correspondence, there are four letters from Eliza Paul (Kirkbride) Gurney to...
Dates:
1701-1917
John B. Garrett papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-903
Abstract
John B. Garrett (1836-1924) was an original member of the Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs. Topics discussed include appointment of agents, missionary work, education and citizenship of Indigenous Americans, use of military force, annuity goods, opening of Indigenous territory to settlement by white people, etc. Includes minutes of the 1871 committee meeting, letter of Garrett to his family telling of a 1865 visit to Fort Smith, Arkansas, as part of the "Grand...
Dates:
1822 - 1961; Majority of material found within 1853 - 1872
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Quaker Fund for Indigenous Communities and its predecessors (Indian Committee, Friendly Association) (1795- )
Collection
Identifier: QM-Phy-838
Scope and Contents
The records of the Indian Committee include minutes, financial materials, correspondence, reports, journals, scrapbooks, papers, maps, lists, transcripts, miscellaneous projects, published items, film, video and other material. Major topics discussed in the records include Friends' 18th and 19th century visits to various First Nations peoples (Oneida people, Genesanguhta people, Stockbridge people, for example), the settlement at Tunesassa and later boarding school (Friends Indian School),...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1795-2007
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- Bird watching 1
- Death 1
- Diaries 1
- Health 1
- Hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Indians of North America -- Missions 1
- Indians of North America -- New York (State) 1
- Indians of North America -- Pennsylvania 1
- Land titles 1
- Land titles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- New Hampshire -- Quakers 1
- Quaker women -- Religious life 1
- Quakers -- Family relationships 1
- Quakers -- Genealogy 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Reports 1
- Society of Friends -- Delaware 1
- Society of Friends -- Maryland 1
- Society of Friends -- New Jersey 1
- Society of Friends -- New York (State) 1
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 1
- annual reports 1
- clippings (information artifacts) 1
- deeds 1
- geological maps 1
- letter books 1
- letters (correspondence) 1
- manuscripts (documents) 1
- maps (documents) 1
- marriage certificates 1
- poems 1
- poetry and poems 1
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