Native Americans and Quakers, 1791-1815

Quaker records document extensive interaction between members of the Society of Friends and Native Americans. This collection includes journals, correspondence, committee minutes, and other miscellaneous original documents dated from 1791 until 1815.

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Letter from Cornplanter to Quakers
Title:
Letter from Cornplanter to Quakers
Description:
A letter sent to the Friends at Philadelphia from Cornplanter, a Seneca Chief, requesting that they take two Seneca boys and educate them.
Date:
1791
Collection:
Native Americans and Quakers, 1791-1815
Letter to the Quarterly Meeting of Friends at Hopewell
Title:
Letter to the Quarterly Meeting of Friends at Hopewell
Description:
Letter describing efforts by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting to improve relations with the Indian Nations, and providing an account of the Friends who attended the treaty intended for the year prior between the United States and Indian Nations.
Date:
1794
Collection:
Native Americans and Quakers, 1791-1815
Letter to the Shawanese, Delawares & others from Quakers of Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Title:
Letter to the Shawanese, Delawares & others from Quakers of Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Description:
Letter to several Indian Nations, including the Shawnee, Delaware, Wyandot, and Miami, praising the peace of the moment and urging that a lasting peace be established.
Date:
1795
Collection:
Native Americans and Quakers, 1791-1815
Letter to Western Indians from the Meeting for Sufferings
Title:
Letter to Western Indians from the Meeting for Sufferings
Description:
Copy of a letter to the Indians living to the North and West of the United States, expressing sadness over the wars fought and hopes for peace.
Date:
1793
Collection:
Native Americans and Quakers, 1791-1815
Memorial to Congress
Title:
Memorial to Congress
Description:
A letter from the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting to the President and Congress of the United States, expressing distress at the prospect of war with the Indians, and encouraging a peaceful path.
Date:
1791
Collection:
Native Americans and Quakers, 1791-1815
Letter to the Cherokee Nation from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Title:
Letter to the Cherokee Nation from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Description:
A letter from the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting to the Cherokee Nation, encouraging friendship and peace.
Date:
1792
Collection:
Native Americans and Quakers, 1791-1815
Letter to the Indians Assembled at the Rapids of the Miami
Title:
Letter to the Indians Assembled at the Rapids of the Miami
Description:
Letter of introduction from Friends of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting to Indians while in Detroit.
Date:
1793
Collection:
Native Americans and Quakers, 1791-1815
Letter to John Drinker from Friends
Title:
Letter to John Drinker from Friends
Description:
Letter to John Drinker informing him of events at Niagara and Detroit.
Date:
1793
Collection:
Native Americans and Quakers, 1791-1815
Letter to John Parrish and others from General McKee
Title:
Letter to John Parrish and others from General McKee
Description:
Letter in advance of a meeting at Sandusky to establish a treaty between the United States government and Indian Nations.
Date:
1791
Collection:
Native Americans and Quakers, 1791-1815
Letter from Quakers to Cornplanter
Title:
Letter from Quakers to Cornplanter
Description:
A letter from Quaker representatives to Cornplanter, a Seneca Chief, accepting his request for them to take two Seneca boys into their care for education.
Date:
1791
Collection:
Native Americans and Quakers, 1791-1815
The Committee Appointed to Confer With the Friends who Attended the Indian Treaty
Title:
The Committee Appointed to Confer With the Friends who Attended the Indian Treaty
Description:
Description and membership list of a committee created to promote friendship and peace with the Tuscarora and other Indians.
Date:
1793
Collection:
Native Americans and Quakers, 1791-1815
Report of the Committee
Title:
Report of the Committee
Description:
Report of the committee designated to prepare various articles to be presented as gifts to the Indian Nations meeting General Wayne to negotiate a treaty.
Date:
1796
Collection:
Native Americans and Quakers, 1791-1815
Journey to Detroit
Title:
Journey to Detroit
Description:
This journal is an account of William Hartshorne's journey to attend treaty negotiations between the government and Indians held at Sandusky, Ohio. He was part of a delegation of Friends appointed by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, a group which included Quaker minister, William Savery, who also kept a journal of the trip. Hartshorne kept a daily account of his impressions of his encounters with Indians, government representatives, and the treaty situation.
Date:
1793
Collection:
Native Americans and Quakers, 1791-1815
Journal of a Journey
Title:
Journal of a Journey
Description:
Isaac Coates documented his travels through New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio in 1799 and 1803. He visited the Friends living at Genesinguhta in the Seneca Nation, and met with Cornplanter, the Seneca Chief, with whom he discussed his concerns about liquor consumption, which were shared by Cornplanter.
Date:
1799 - 1803
Collection:
Native Americans and Quakers, 1791-1815
Account of Canandaigua Treaty negotiations
Title:
Account of Canandaigua Treaty negotiations
Description:
Letter from representatives of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting providing an account of Treaty negotiations at Canandaigua.
Date:
1791
Collection:
Native Americans and Quakers, 1791-1815
Account of Goods to be sent to the Indians
Title:
Account of Goods to be sent to the Indians
Description:
Receipt for goods sent as a token to the Indians
Date:
1795
Collection:
Native Americans and Quakers, 1791-1815
Letter from Secretary Tobias Lear to Quakers
Title:
Letter from Secretary Tobias Lear to Quakers
Description:
A letter from Tobias Lear, Secretary to the President of the United States, to the Quakers, in reply to their letter concerning the Cherokees.
Date:
1792
Collection:
Native Americans and Quakers, 1791-1815
Address to the Six Nations
Title:
Address to the Six Nations
Description:
Draft and letter from the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting to the Six Indian Nations with whom the United States Government would sign a treaty, asking them to receive the Friends who would attend the Treaty and urging peace.
Date:
1794
Collection:
Native Americans and Quakers, 1791-1815
Invoice of Joseph Johnston to the United States
Title:
Invoice of Joseph Johnston to the United States
Description:
Invoice for the payment of Joseph Johnston for guiding five Friends from Philadelphia to the Seneca nation.
Date:
1798
Collection:
Native Americans and Quakers, 1791-1815