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
Some Notes Kept of a Journey
Title:
Some Notes Kept of a Journey
Description:
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.
Date:
1805
Collection:
Native Americans and Quakers, 1791-1815
Some Account of my Residence among the Indians continued (Notes 2nd)
Title:
Some Account of my Residence among the Indians continued (Notes 2nd)
Description:
Halliday Jackson documented his time living with the Seneca Indians, which lasted over two years. Following an account of the latter part of his stay, Jackson documents his route returning home. The last part of this journal is a record of an encounter between the Chiefs of the Six Nations and a missionary from Massachusetts, who hoped to preach to them. A speech by Chief Red Jacket is recorded, in which he opposes Christian evangelism, and another in which he opposes selling land.
Date:
1800
Collection:
Native Americans and Quakers, 1791-1815
Jacob Lindley's Account
Title:
Jacob Lindley's Account
Description:
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.
Date:
1793
Collection:
Native Americans and Quakers, 1791-1815
Journal and Correspondence
Title:
Journal and Correspondence
Description:
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.
Date:
1807
Collection:
Native Americans and Quakers, 1791-1815
Missionary's address to the Chiefs of the Six Nations of Indians and their response.
Title:
Missionary's address to the Chiefs of the Six Nations of Indians and their response.
Description:
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.
Date:
1805
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
Some Account of a Visit
Title:
Some Account of a Visit
Description:
Halliday Jackson documented his journey among the Indians of New York state, primarily the Seneca. He was appointed by the Committee on Indian Affairs to undertake this journey. He records several speeches which were made by Quakers and Indians.
Date:
1806
Collection:
Native Americans and Quakers, 1791-1815
Journal and Correspondence
Title:
Journal and Correspondence
Description:
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.
Date:
1805
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
Sketch of the Manners, Customs, Religion and Government of the Seneca Indians in 1800
Title:
Sketch of the Manners, Religion and Government of the Seneca Indians in 1800
Description:
Halliday Jackson wrote this brief description of the culture and customs of the Seneca Indians after his travels in 1800. This volume begins with a few extracts from speeches by Chief Cornplanter and George Washington, which Jackson uses to demonstrate that the United States is obliged to protect Indians and their lands.
Date:
1800
Collection:
Native Americans and Quakers, 1791-1815
Halliday Jackson's Book, Genesinguhta
Title:
Halliday Jackson's Book, Genesinguhta
Description:
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.
Date:
1798 - 1800
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