Letters and invoices, 1758-1807, undated

(ca. 43 items: letters, ms. copies of letters, receipts, minutes of meetings, accounts) Arranged chronologically, includes: memorandum of what the Tuscarora people say concerning the place they lived in, n.d. [were never paid for their land]; ms. copy of a letter to the Delaware Nation (Lenape), n.d. ms. copy of letter to Gaiänt'wakê (Cornplanter) and other Seneca chiefs, n.d. minute of a conference with the Muscogee Nation and other Native Americans, n.d. draft of a letter to [] from the [committee] n.d. ms. "copy of what was given to the Friends at Baltimore" re: meeting with the Delaware Nation (Lenape); [memo. of var. Native Americans under care of Baltimore Yearly Meeting and those worthy of notice from Philadelphia Y.M.]; [memo. of route to Genesegaughton]; fragment of a proposal to take Native American girls into homes to teach them "the useful ways of the white people" and list of Friends willing to host and their relative circumstances; ms. draft [?] of a letter to "Brothers of the Tuscarora Nation" signed by Henry Drinker on behalf of himself and [lists names] re: treaty of 1744 with the Tuscarora Nation; receipts for Native American blankets, 1796, and saddle bags, 1801; ms. copy of a letter to the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians re: taking three of their daughters into Friends' homes to be taught until age 18 (1797) [addressed to "Joseph Shauquethqueat, Hendrick Aupaumut and all others of the Stockbridge Nation"]; copy of the speech left by the Friends of Maryland for the Wyandot Indians, 1797 "To the chiefs of the Wyandots, Shawnees and Delaware Indians"; ms. copy of a letter from indigenous women at Oneida to the women Friends [Hannah Eddy, Martha Titus, Elizabeth Seaman] at New York, 1797; letters addressed to Thomas Wistar: letter from Jacob Taylor, Oneida, 6 mo. 9, 1797; letter from Halliday Jackson, [Genesingughta], 1798; letter from John Elliot, n.d.; letter to Henry Simmons, N. Stockbridge, from Elizabeth Josep, 11 mo. 8, 1797 re: her daughter going to live with Friends; account of Women Friends of Chester Quarterly Meeting, 1798-1803, for leggings, etc. presumably for Native Americans; [memo. of some Native American names] Wyandot 1 mo. 27, 1798; ms. draft of a letter to Edm[un]d Prior and Thomas Eddy, 5 mo. 15, 1798; [memo. of certificate of Hannah Jackson to work with the Oneida, 1800]; "extracts of letters from and to the Indian natives accompanying report to the Yearly Meeting, 1801" [Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians]; observations on the Oneida, with regard to civilization and improvement, 1801; letter to Henry Drinker (1801) from H. Dearborn, War Dept.; account of Indian Committee with Joseph Clark, 1802, for sundry goods provided for Solomon Quackmut and wife, Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians; list of items for [Taunswantee?] Native Americans, 1803; minutes of a meeting of the "Committee for the gradual civilization of the Indian natives 3 mo. 15, 1804"; letter to Jacob Taylor, from David Bacon, Thomas Stewardson, Jno. Shoemaker, jr., 1 mo. 7, 1805; ms. draft of a letter to Jacob Taylor, Benjamin Cope, Joel Swayne, Rachel Cope and Hannah Jackson from Hy. Drinker, T. Wistar, T. Stewardson, 1806; [memo. on state of the Indian Fund, 1807]; letter to Benjamin Cope, Jacob Taylor, Joel Swaine, Stephen Twining and Hannah Jackson from the committee, Jonathan Evans, Thomas Stewardson, Thomas Wistar, John Shoemaker, Isaac Bomall, 9 mo. 18, 1807; ms. draft of letter from the committee, 12 mo. 18, 1807