Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Eleazar Williams papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-999
Abstract
Missionary to the Oneida Indians in New York and Green Bay, Wis. The mixed Indian-white descendant of Indian captive Eunice Williams of Deerfield, Mass., Williams was appointed a lay reader and catechist by Episcopal bishop John Henry Hobart and began work among the Oneida following the War of 1812. Three letters (1812-1858) and a claim decision (contemporary copy, 1838), together with twenty-nine sermons, letters, autobiographical excerpts, documents, essays, Indian language manuscripts,...
Dates:
1758-1858
Henry Van Schaack papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT oversize-Ayer-MS-3193
Abstract
American loyalist.,Colonial Kinderhook and Albany, N.Y., resident. Mainly correspondence, with a few receipts, appointments, petitions, and other documents, dating primarily from 1756-1809, regarding Henry Van Schaack's Indian trade operations, Seven Years' War service, colonial political activities and opinions, Revolutionary War banishment, concern with post-war loyalist emigration, connection with Shay's Rebellion, advocacy of the U.S. Constitution, anti-church tax campaign, and party...
Dates:
1734-1896; Majority of material found within 1756 - 1809
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- Subject: New York (State) -- History -- Sources X
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- Albany (N.Y.) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- American loyalists -- History -- Sources 1
- Church and state -- Massachusetts -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Constitutional conventions -- Northeastern States -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Correspondence 1
- Correspondence -- Northeastern States -- 1751-1800 1
- Indian land transfers -- New York (State) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Indian traders -- Northeastern States -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Indians of North America -- Languages -- Texts 1
- Indians of North America -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources 1
- Indians of North America -- Wisconsin -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Manuscripts, American -- Northeastern States 1
- Massachusetts -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Sources 1
- Menominee Indians -- Land tenure -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Merchants -- New York (State) -- Albany -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Missionaries -- New York (State) -- Biography 1
- Missionaries -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Missionaries -- Wisconsin -- Biography 1
- Missionaries -- Wisconsin -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- New York (State) -- History -- Sources 1
- Oneida Indians -- Government relations -- Sources 1
- Oneida Indians -- Land tenure -- History -- Sources 1
- Political parties -- Northeastern States -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Second Great Awakening -- Sources 1
- Sermons -- 1751-1800 1
- Sermons, American -- 18th century 1
- Shays' Rebellion, 1786-1787 -- Sources 1
- United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1754-1763 -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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