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oai:indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org:10054

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Title:Seneca materials, Halliday Jackson journals, 1805-1806
Contributor:Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835
Date:circa 1800-1806
Description: Materials composed by Pennsylvania Quaker missionary Halliday Jackson concerning his work with Native peoples at the turn of the nineteeth century. The first item is a manuscript dated to 1800 titled "Some account of my residence among the Indians," a continuation of another manuscript, concluding his account of a missionary stay at Tunessassa and Cornplanter's village, and his return to Pottsville, Pennsylvania, after an absence of 2 years and 2 months (Jackson departed for missionary work April 30, 1798), pages 1-30. There is also an account of a meeting between Senecas at Buffalo Creek with an Indian agent and a missionary from Massachusetts, pages 31-39; and Red Jacket's speech, May 1811, at Buffalo Creek, pages 40-43 [Donor, Elisa Schofield, 1912. See also Deardorff and Snyderman (1956): 589-592; Wallace (1952b).]. The second item is a journal dated to 1806 concerning business of the Society of Friends committee on Indian affairs, and the Indians in western Pennsylvania [Printed, Snyderman (1957)]. From originals held at the Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College. Some of these materials were printed under the title Civilization of the Indian Natives (Philadelphia, 1830) and described by George S. Snyderman, "Halliday Jackson's Journal of a Visit Paid to the Indians of New York (1806)," APS Proc. 101 (1957): 565.
Extent:2 items
Identifier:https://indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org/entry/10054
Language:English
Language (ISO639):eng
Subject:Seneca
Haudenosaunee
Missions
Pennsylvania--History
New York (State)--History
Religion
Indian agents
Society of Friends
Government relations
Diplomacy
Type:Microfilms
Journals
Type (DCMI):Text
Type (OLAC):primary_text

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Archive:  Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society
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Citation: Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835. circa 1800-1806. Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society.
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