Letters and invoices, 1758 - 1807

(ca. 30 items: letters, ms. copies of letters, minutes of meetings, invoices, accounts related to Friends dealings with Native Americans) Arranged chronologically, includes: misc. accounts re: goods for Native Americans; "Message to the Indians at [Kuskuskie] sent from Easton by Pisquetomen and Hickman" re: trading stores set up in Shamokin and Mahoning, n.d.; ms. inscribed "Cherokee's message to the Mingoes, June 1758"; 1758 invoice of goods purchased by Israel Pemberton (to accompany General Forbes) to be used in an attempt to regain friendship with Native Americans in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia [2 ms. copies]; 1758 Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures minutes and letters to Israel Pemberton (Dec. 1758 letter critical of IP's plan to dispose of goods not deemed necessary by General Forbes); Letter to Israel Pemberton from Samuel Lightfoot, Jr., 12 mo. 16, 1758 re: Lightfoot's thoughts re: concern for Native Americans; [ms. copy] of letter to Governor Sharpe from Israel Pemberton, Dec. 16, 1758 re: General Forbes expedition; [ms. copy in hand of I.P.] letter to [Israel Pemberton] from I. Ridout, Dec. 20, 1758 re: reply from Gov. Sharpe; minute "At an occasional meeting of the trustees and treasurer of the Friendly Association [etc.] at Alexander Seaton's the 25th 12 month 1758. Present, William Callender, Jeremiah Warden, William Fisher, Richard Wistar, Thomas Say, Jacob Shoemaker Jr., Peter Worrall, Jacob Lewis, John Reynell, James Pemberton, Jos. Morris, Joseph Richardson, Owen Jones, and Abel James" re: the fate of goods not needed by General Forbes; minute "At a meeting at the house of Jacob Boehm in Conestoga township, Lancaster County the 26th, 12 mo., 1758. Present, Benjamin Hersey, John Johns, Jacob Boehm, [Wolle Rhodes], Benjamin Bowma, Henry Landis, John Shank, John Hare, Jacob Moyer, Michael Shank, John Stayman, Henry Hare, John Graft, Michael Grafft, Martin Boehm, Henry Shank, John Hare Senr., Jacob Graft" re: sending gifts to Native Americans; 1759 letter of IP to trustees of the Friendly Association in answer to theirs of Dec. 1758; [ms. copy] letter to Samuel Lightfoot from G. Clark, 1 mo. 8, 1759 re: goods for Native Americans; Letter to [Nicholas?] Waln from Samson Occum, New Stockbridge, Dec. 25, 1791; Letter to William Savery from Hendrick [Aupaumet], New Stockbridge, Dec. 23, 1795 re: situation there; invoice of goods for the Muscogee Nation (1796); message from Gaiänt'wakê (Cornplanter) in reply to an offer from the Quakers to teach in the Seneca Nation (1796); "Some account of the proceedings of friends for the improvement of the Oneida, Stockbridge and Tuscorora Indians" re: Friends at Oneida, 1796; report of a committee for promoting the civil wellbeing and religious improvement of the Indian Native to the [] Yearly Meeting, 1796; Letter to "our Indian brethern of the Six Nations" from Henry Drinker, Thomas Harrison, John Elliott, Thomas Wistar, Joseph Sloan, John Biddle, 5 mo. 20, 1796 re: Friends coming to help Native Americans; Letter to Thomas Wistar from Enoch Walker, Oneida, 7 mo., 16, 1796 re: work among Native Americans there; "A translated copy of a letter from Major Marconny to Wm. Savery, David Sands and Company" Berlin, Oct. 22, 1796; "Copy of a letter from Martha Routh to the Cherokee and Creek [Muscogee] Nations of Indians" 12 mo. 21, 1796; accounts of money received from Friends for the Indians (1796-7)