Joint Committee on Indian Affairs of the Four Yearly Meetings of Baltimore, Genesee, New York, and Philadelphia (Society of Friends : Hicksite)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
John Jackson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-171
Overview
John Jackson (1809-1855), son of Halliday and Jane Jackson of Darby, Pennsylvania, married Rachel Tyson (1807?-1883), daughter of Isaac Tyson of Baltimore, Maryland, in 1832. Together they established the Sharon Female Academy in Delaware County, Pa. John Jackson was a Quaker minister and served on the Joint Committee on Indian Affairs. Collection contains correspondence and other papers, 1827-1849. Series I is made up primarily of correspondence and drafts of correspondence between Griffith...
Dates:
1827-1849
Joint Committee on Indian Affairs of the Four Yearly Meetings of Genesee, Baltimore, New York and Philadelphia
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-046
Overview
The Indian Committees of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Genesee (Hicksite) united in 1838 to protect the Seneca Indians from the Ogden Land Company which was trying to buy their land. This collection contains papers relating to the joint committee of representatives, including correspondence chiefly concerning the ceding of Seneca lands in New York by treaty under questionable circumstances. Correspondents include Benjamin Ferris (1780-1867).
Dates:
1836-1850
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- Indian land transfers 1
- Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1789-1869 1
- Indians of North America -- Treaties 1
- Land use -- New York (State) 1
- Quakers -- New York (State) 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Seneca Indians -- Treaties 1
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 1
- Real property -- New York (State) 1
- Seneca Indians 1
- Seneca Indians -- Government relations -- 1789-1869 1
- Seneca Indians -- Land tenure 1
- Seneca Indians -- New York (State) 1
- Seneca Indians -- Treaties 1
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