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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

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

An act to define the status of freedmen and their descendants now resident in the Cherokee Nation and who were slaves in the country at the commencement of the rebellion, approximately 1881

Collection

Identifier: E99.C5-C42 1881z

Scope and Contents Handwritten document which seeks to establish that all freedmen who were resident in the Cherokee Nation at the commencement of the American Civil War and who were at that time slaves of any Cherokee or other citizen and were liberated by voluntary act or by law but who did not necessarily return to the Cherokee country within the time specified within the treaty of 1866, be granted the same rights and privileges as other adopted citizens of the Cherokee Nation. Although the document was...

Dates: approximately 1881

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Annie Heloise Abel Manuscripts, approximately 1910

Collection

Identifier: 1500-001-40

Scope and Contents

Manuscript of The Slaveholding Indians, which includes The American Indian as Slaveholder and Seccessionist; The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War; and The American Indian Under Reconstruction. Includes preliminary pages, footnotes, bibliography, maps, and printer's proofs of photographic illustrations.

Dates: approximately 1910

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

C. T. Wells diary, 1878-1879

Item

Identifier: MC-1964-217

Scope and Contents

This is an account of a fifteen day trip by horse and wagon from Mulberry, Franklin County, Arkansas, to Arkansas City Kansas by C. T. Wells and companions. There is a mention of George Perryman, a few places recorded, and some brief descriptions of various Indian agencies and the appearance of the country, forests and prairies; for example it does indicate the appearance of the prairie around Muskogee had not changed much between the 1830s’ and 1878.

Dates: 1878 - 1879

Found in: Helmerich Center for American Research at Gilcrease Museum

John M. Oskison manuscript of Unconquerable:

Item

Identifier: E99.C5-O85 1936 Ovrsz

Scope and Contents

Unconquerable: The story of John Ross, Chief of the Cherokees. Typed manuscript with handwritten corrections of John Oskison's unpublished biography of John Ross, Chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1828 to 1866. Together with the manuscript is a check for 25 dollars from J.B. Milam to John Oskison dated 1943, presumably in payment for the manuscript.

Dates: 1936

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Robert W. DeMoss manuscripts, Undated

Collection

Identifier: 2006-009

Scope and Contents

The papers consist of the typescripts for "Angie Debo: Link to the Battle of Round Mountain" and "Location of Round Mountain and Caving Banks".

Dates: Undated

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

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

Found in: Helmerich Center for American Research at Gilcrease Museum

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Papers of the Robertson and Worcester families, 1815-1932

An act to define the status of freedmen and their descendants now resident in the Cherokee Nation and who were slaves in the country at the commencement of the rebellion, approximately 1881

Annie Heloise Abel Manuscripts, approximately 1910

C. T. Wells diary, 1878-1879

John M. Oskison manuscript of Unconquerable:

Robert W. DeMoss manuscripts, Undated

Samuel Austin Worcester papers, 1831-1868

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