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Albert Lamborn Green Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-175
Overview
Albert Lamborn Green (1845-1947) was a Quaker Indian Agent for the Otoe Agency in Nebraska during the period of President Grant's "peace policy," 1869-1872. The bulk of the correspondence in this collection is comprised of letters written to Green from Philadelphia Friends in regard to gifts in support of Indian work. Later letters written by Green describe from memory the social life and customs of the Otoe Indians. The collection has information on the Otoe language, vocabulary, etc., and...
Dates:
1869-1935
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
Lightfoot Family Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-184
Overview
The Lightfoot family was a Pennsylvania Quaker family descended from Thomas Lightfoot, a Quaker minister who emigrated from Ireland to Kennett Monthly Meeting in 1716 with his family. The collection includes three journals which have been attributed to his grandson Thomas on the basis of contextual detail. These accounts document visits to meetings in the mid Atlantic region, New Jersey to Virginia, from 1757 to 1760. Jacob Lightfoot, a son of Thomas and Sarah Lightfoot, married Mary...
Dates:
1737-ca. 1948
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Joint Committee on Indian Affairs and its predecessors (1795-1892)
Collection — othertype: SW/Phy/780
Identifier: QM-Phy-780
Overview
Records of the Joint Committee on Indian Affairs, and its predecessor, the Indian Committee (1837-1850) of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite). Also includes the letter books of John Saunders of Philadelphia, Secretary of the Joint Committee, and correspondence of Barclay White, Jesse W. Griest, Thomas Lightfoot, Samuel M. Janney, Levi K. Brown, Samuel Jeanes, and Albert Lamborn Green. Reports include information about the Senecas, the Otos and the Otoe Agency, the Santees and the Santee...
Dates:
1838-1901
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- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite: 1827- 1955). Sub-committee on Indian Concerns 3
- Green, Albert Lamborn, 1845-1947 2
- Janney, Samuel M. (Samuel Mcpherson), 1801-1880 2
- Jeanes, Samuel, d.1894 2
- Lightfoot, Thomas, 1821-1896 2
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Indian Committee (1837-1850) 2
- Saunders, John, 1814-1891 2
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Great Nemaha Agency 2
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Otoe Agency 2
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1968). Standing Committee on the Indian Concern 1
- Brown, Levi K. (Levi Kirk), 1814-1899 1
- Dorsey, William, 1811-1874 1
- Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
- Genesee Yearly Meeting of Friends 1
- Griest, Jesse W., 1837-1885 1
- Hallowell, Benjamin, 1799-1877 1
- Hayes, John Russell, 1866-1945 1
- Joint Committee on Indian Affairs of the Four Yearly Meetings of Baltimore, Genesee, New York, and Philadelphia (Society of Friends : Hicksite) 1
- Lightfoot family 1
- Lightfoot, Mary B. (Mary Bonner), 1820-1907 1
- Lightfoot, Samuel, 1701-1771 1
- Lightfoot, Susanna 1720 1781 (Susanna Hudson Hatton Lightfoot) 1
- Lightfoot, Thomas Montgomery, -1865 1
- Lightfoot, Thomas, 1728-1793 1
- Maiden Creek Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : 1735-1829 : Maiden Creek (Pa. : Township)) 1
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1955). Indian Committee 1
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Santee Sioux Agency 1
- White, Barclay, 1821-1903 1 ∧ less
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