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Box 28

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Contains 17 Results:

"1827 3"

 File — Box: 28
Identifier: Box 2
Scope and Contents

7/1827 - 12/1827, while teaching at Tunesassa: urging Senecas to have former students teach; schools poorly attended; temporary suspension of the school for girls

Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Quaker Fund for Indigenous Communities and its predecessors (Indian Committee, Friendly Association) (1795- ) / Papers / Joseph P. Elkinton / Journals

"1827 4"

 File — Box: 28
Identifier: Box 2
Scope and Contents

12/1827 - 8/1828, while teaching at Tunesassa: issue of establishing school at Jimerstown taught by former pupil (either Jos. or Maris Peirce); contains letter to Maris on why he should not go among whites, recounting what has happened to those who have done so; internal strife among Senecas, parties

Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Quaker Fund for Indigenous Communities and its predecessors (Indian Committee, Friendly Association) (1795- ) / Papers / Joseph P. Elkinton / Journals

"1836 Minutes"

 File — Box: 28
Identifier: Box 2
Scope and Contents

9/1836, minutes taken on a visit to Tunesassa

Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Quaker Fund for Indigenous Communities and its predecessors (Indian Committee, Friendly Association) (1795- ) / Papers / Joseph P. Elkinton / Journals

"1858"

 File — Box: 28
Identifier: Box 2
Scope and Contents

11/1858, visit to Tunesassa with Ebenezer Worth and T. Valentine

Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Quaker Fund for Indigenous Communities and its predecessors (Indian Committee, Friendly Association) (1795- ) / Papers / Joseph P. Elkinton / Journals

"1862"

 File — Box: 28
Identifier: Box 2
Scope and Contents

5/1862, visit to Tunesassa

Note: Summary note on contents by "M.G."

Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Quaker Fund for Indigenous Communities and its predecessors (Indian Committee, Friendly Association) (1795- ) / Papers / Joseph P. Elkinton / Journals

Letterbooks, 1816-1827

 File — Box: 28
Identifier: HC.PhY.838.05.047 (1250/AA92(3))
Scope and Contents

"Joseph Elkinton's Book", 1816-1819: while teaching at Tunesassa

Letters, 1819-1826: While teaching at Tunesassa, some written in shorthand

Dates: 1816-1827
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Quaker Fund for Indigenous Communities and its predecessors (Indian Committee, Friendly Association) (1795- ) / Papers / Joseph P. Elkinton / Letterbooks

Letterbooks, 1813-1831

 File — Box: 28
Identifier: HC.PhY.838.05.048 (1250/AA92(3))
Scope and Contents

3 volumes of letterbooks:

1813-1827: contains copies of letters among different hands

"Letter Book 4 mo. 12th 1818": 1818-1822, contains copies of letters to the Indian Committee

1825-1831: Tunesassa Records, contains copies of letters to the Indian Committee

Dates: 1813-1831
Found in: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Quaker Fund for Indigenous Communities and its predecessors (Indian Committee, Friendly Association) (1795- ) / Papers / Joseph P. Elkinton / Letterbooks
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