Native Americans and Quakers, 1791-1815

Rachel Coope (1771-1807) was a Quaker who became a teacher among the Seneca in the Allegheny region of New York State in 1805 until her death in 1807. This is her original journal from 1805 describing her travels to New York.

Jacob Lindley documented his journey of four and a half months to attend the treaty negotiations between the United States and the Six Nations, which was to be held at Sandusky, Ohio, in 1793. He kept a daily and detailed account of the journey and the people he met, as well as various thoughts and reflections on contemporary politics and morality.

John Peirce documented his 61-day journey through Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York in his journal titled "Notes, On a Visit to Several Tribes of Indians, 1796." Peirce and his fellow Friends James Cooper, Joseph Sansom, Isaiah Rowland, Enoch Walker, and Henry Simmons left on May 30, 1797 for the Oneida reservation. Their goal was to meet with various Native American groups and establish agricultural programs. After passing through New Jersey and up the Hudson River to Schenectady, they followed the Mohawk River to the Stockbridge, Brothertown, Tuscarora and Oneida Villages. After meeting with the members of the various groups at the Oneida reservation, the party made their way further west to the Onondagas and Cayuga settlements, and then up to modern day Farming, New York, to meet with friends living there. Their journey home took them through central New York and Pennsylvania through Bath and Painted Post, New York as well as Muncy, Catawissa, and Reading Pennsylvania. Peirce arrived home in Darby, Pennsylvania, on July 29, 1796.

Address of a missionary from the Boston Missionary Society to a gathering of the Six Nations of Indians, and a reply to him by Red Jacket.

Rachel Coope (1771-1807) was a Quaker who became a teacher among the Seneca of the Allegheny region in New York State in 1805 until her death in 1807. One of two manuscript compilations of her letters and journal by her father, Jonathan Sharpless.

This volume contains contemporary copies of correspondence between the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and the Friends living in the Seneca Nation, of whom Halliday Jackson was one, along with Henry Simmons and Joel Swayne.

James Cooper documented his 62-day journey through Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York in his journal titled "Journal of a Visit to the Seneca Indians, 1796." Cooper and his fellow Friends -- John Peirce, Joseph Sansom, Isaiah Rowland, Enoch Walker, and Henry Simmons -- left on May 30, 1797 for the Oneida reservation. Their goal was to meet with various Native American groups and establish agricultural programs. After passing through New Jersey and up the Hudson River to Schenectady, they followed the Mohawk River to the Stockbridge, Brothertown, Tuscarora and Oneida Villages. After meeting with the members of the various groups at the Oneida reservation, the party made their way further west to the Onondagas and Cayuga settlements. Their journey home took them through central New York and Pennsylvania through Bath and Painted Post, New York as well as Muncy, Catawissa, and Reading Pennsylvania. Cooper arrived home in Woodbury, New Jersey, on July 30, 1796.