Indians of North America -- Treaties
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
J. L. Hargett collection of Choctaw Nation papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2397
Abstract:
Correspondence, documents, financial papers, printed materials and other papers relating to the Choctaw removal to lands in Indian Territory and claims made by the Choctaw Nation against the United States Government. Correspondence includes letters from David Folsom, Choctaw Chief, to missionaries Cyrus Byington and Cyrus Kingsbury while in Washington negotiating the treaty of 1825. He writes of the deaths of two chiefs on the trip, and of the illness of others who had overindulged in the...
Dates:
1821-1917
Ethan Allen Hitchcock collection on Indian removal
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2678
Abstract:
The collection documents several episodes in the history of Indian removal in the southeastern United States and Missouri, focusing on the activities of Generals Ethan Allen Hitchcock and Thomas Sidney Jesup in the 1830s and early 1840s. Material includes autograph letters, signed, and manuscript reports, diaries, and maps.
Dates:
1804-1896
Nathaniel Pendleton Family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 392
Abstract:
Correspondence and legal and financial papers reflecting Pendleton's service in the Revolutionary Army as aide-de-camp to General Nathanael Greene, and his close connection with Alexander Hamilton. The correspondence includes letters from Samuel Finley, Mrs. Nathanael Greene, Alexander von Humboldt and Otho Holland Williams. Legal and financial papers as well as correspondence of Alexander Hamilton are also included since Pendleton was executor of his estate. Also included are legal...
Dates:
1716-1853