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Papers of the Robertson and Worcester families, 1815-1932
Collection
Identifier: 1931-001
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, Creek (Muskogee) tribal materials, scrapbooks, photos, memorabilia and printed matter, pertaining to Samuel Austein Worcester, missionary to the Cherokees, his daughter Anna Eliza Worcester Roberston, his granddaughter Alice Mary Robertson, her father William Schenck Roberson, other members of her family, the reverent Timothy Hill, Robert McGill Loughridge, John Lowrie, James C. Pilling, and Pleasant Porter. Concerns missions, indian education, printing...
Dates:
1815 - 1932
Indians of North America historical manuscripts and documents, 1724-1981
Collection
Identifier: 1975-006
Scope and Contents
This artificial collection was brought together initially as the the old American Indian Law and History Collection from miscellaneous acquisitions that had accrued over twenty years of collecting. Later the collection's scope was broadened somewhat and the title was changed. It is presently a collection of historical documents, correspondence, photographs and ephemera relating to the governments, citizenship, and lands primarily of those tribes located in Oklahoma Indian Territory. The...
Dates:
1724 - 1981
Jesup Papers, 1836-1837
Collection
Identifier: MC-1964-112
Scope and Contents
These letters deal with various matters con cerning the Creeks in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. In August, 1836, Henry Stanton, Adjutant-General from Headquarters Army of the South, Tuskeegee, signs an order of Maj. Gen. Thomas S. Jesup (1788-1860) appointing Col. John A. Campbell as Commissioner to treat with the chiefs of the Creeks and help them with their land claims.In another letter, Jesup requests more troops for Major Dear born to prevent the hostile Creeks from...
Dates:
1836 - 1837
Samuel Austin Worcester papers, 1831-1868
Collection
Identifier: MC-1954-226
Scope and Contents
In this collection there is only one original item: the agreement of the “Old Settlers” Council to follow him, with certain stipulations, to set up his press at the forks of the Illinois. Instead Worcester located the press at Union Mission where there was a building available. After little more than a year’s time, it was moved to Park Hill.The remainder of the collection, dated from 1831 to 1868, consists of typescripts and Photostats of letters from his wife, Ann; his...
Dates:
1831 - 1868
Waldo Emerson "Dode" McIntosh collection, 1944-1977
Collection
Identifier: 1977-006
Scope and Contents
Consists of material relating to the structure, function and procedures of various organizations including publications; press releases; reports; congressional acts, bills, resolutions; government agency information and statistics; memorandums; correspondence, etc. The collection presumably derives from Creek Nation Principal Chief McIntosh's involvement with organizations promoting Indian economic advancement.
Dates:
1944 - 1977
Western Creek Nations Grand Council Records Ledger, 1835-1837
Item
Identifier: 1000-188
Content Description
"Attached hereto are original minutes of 1832 [sic] of the Western Agency of Creeks (also referred to as Grand Council and Council)...These records are of probate variety; having to do with estates, appraisals, adjustment of debts; and are also a record of slaves bought and sold." Signed Thomas B. Donaldson, Feb. 14, 1942.Typescript letter from Thomas B. Donaldson describing provenance of records.
Photocopy of document reading "L.C. Perryman Hotalke marthalar. Okmulgee Oct. 27,...
Dates:
1835 - 1837