Category: History - American
Our readers have, no doubt, perused with satisfaction the numbers which have appeared from time to time in this periodical, respecting the Seneca Indians--their habits, superstitions, &c. The facts which these articles embraced, were rendered the more interesting, by the late...
“Brothers, it is good that parents tenderly love their children. It is also the duty of children to love and serve their parents. Families should live together in harmony; and w...
5. Part 5A set of smith’s tools was procured, and a smith shop erected at Friends’ settlement this season, which was found useful in repairing the Indians’ tools. In the course of this s...
9. Part 9“Father, from the fatherly care the presidents of the United States have exercised towards their red children, we speak to our father in confidence, believing he will not turn a...
2. Part 2In order more fully to learn the disposition of the several tribes of Indians bordering on the state of Pennsylvania, it was an early object with the committee, to address to th...
7. Part 7Some evil disposed persons, and doubtless opposed to the advancement of the Indians in civilization, took every opportunity of creating suspicions in their minds, of the views o...
12. Part 12“At the treaty of Philadelphia with William Penn and the Six Nations, we considered William Penn as a friend to us, not wishing to cheat us out of our lands, but to pay us a ful...
6. Part 6At a subsequent interview, Cornplanter made a reply to Friends, in which he stated, “We understand the writing which you gave us very well, and our minds are now quite easy. Two...
8. Part 8In the year 1813, although frequent alarms continued to pervade the Indians’ borders, our Friends did not apprehend it sufficient cause to abandon their residence, or to relax t...
13. Part 13“Brothers, we are fully convinced that if you will turn your attention to the cultivation of the earth, to raising the different kinds of grain--to building comfortable dwelling...
11. Part 11Jacob Strong, Eighth month 14, 32 years old.--Eleven acres of land, three of corn, one and half of potatoes, one and half of oats, one and a half of meadow, one cow, two heifers...
3. Part 3The Indians, both of the Oneida and Stockbridge tribes, made replies of considerable length to our friends on this parting opportunity, in which they expressed their sense of gr...
4. Part 4Thus we see, in this short account of the correspondence with the Indians, of various and distant nations to the westward, (of which much more might have been said,) not only th...
1. Part 1Our readers have, no doubt, perused with satisfaction the numbers which have appeared from time to time in this periodical, respecting the Seneca Indians--their habits, supersti...
14. Part 14“He, with his son Charles, sixty years of age, and his son-in-law, came on board, and remained until she had passed six miles up, and then they returned home in their own canoe,...