Research Guides: Native American Resources in Haverford College Special Collections (HC): Topical Resources

William Penn and Native Americans

A letter from William Penn, poprietary [sic] and governour of Pennsylvania in America, to the committee of the Free society of traders of that province, residing in London .: To which is added an account of the city of Philadelphia, newly laid out by Penn, William, 1644-1718.
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Rare Books BX7739 .L65 1683
Publication Date: London : A. Sowle, 1683
A memoir of the history of the celebrated treaty made by William Penn with the Indians by Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844.
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Rare Books BX7644.D93 M5
Publication Date: Philadelphia : M'Carty & Davis, 1836
A memoir on the locality of the Great Treaty between William Penn and the Indian natives in 1682: read before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, September 19, 1825. Philadelphia, printed, 1825 by Vaux, Roberts, 1786-1836.
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Collection BX7644.V38 M5
Publication Date: London, 1839
An image of peace: the Penn Treaty collection of Mr. and Mrs. Meyer P. Potamkin
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Collection BX7740 .I32 1996
Publication Date: Harrisburg, Pa. : Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1996
Benjamin West's painting of Penn's treaty with the Indians / by Ellen Starr Brinton ... With thirty-five illustrations
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Collection BX7742.W47 Z26
Civilization of the Indian natives: or, A brief view of the friendly conduct of William Penn towards them in the early settlement of Pennsylvania; the subsequent care of the Society of Friends in endeavoring to promote peace and friendship with them by pa by Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835.
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Rare Books BX7741.S55 T8 1830
Publication Date: Philadelphia : New York : M. T. C. Gould ; 1830
Friends and enemies in Penn's Woods: Indians, colonists, and the racial construction of Pennsylvania
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Collection BX7797.2.I3 F89 2004
Publication Date: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004
History of Pennsylvania purchases from the Indians by Kent, Donald H.
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Collection BX7797.2.I3 K37
Publication Date: New York, : Garland Pub. Inc., 1974
Penn's treaty with the Indians by Keyser, Charles S. (Charles Shearer), 1825-1904.
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Collection BX7740.K44 P41
Publication Date: Philadelphia : David McKay, 1882
Presentation to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania of the belt of wampum delivered to William Penn at the great treaty under the elm tree in 1682 : To which are appended William Penn's letters to the Indians, plan for the union of the English colonies
Call Number: HC Special Collections Quaker Collection BX7740 .P934
Presentation to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania of the belt of wampum delivered to William Penn at the great treaty under the elm tree in 1682: To which are appended William Penn's letters to the Indians, plan for the union of the English colonies,
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Collection BX7740 .P934
Publication Date: [Philadelphia : Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1857
The Lenâpé and their legends: with the complete text and symbols of the Walam olum, a new translation, and an inquiry into its authenticity by Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899.
Call Number: H Special Collections Rare Books E99.D2 B85
Publication Date: Philadelphia : D. G. Brinton, 1885
The papers of William Penn
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Reference BX7739 .A1 1981 v. 1-5
Publication Date: Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981
William Penn papers, circa 1673-1944
Call Number: Ms. Coll. 853
Including "William Penn's Letter to the Indians," 1681-8-18. Manuscript copy in the handwriting of John Kendall.

Captivity Narratives

A narrative of the captivity and sufferings of Benjamin Gilbert and his family: who were surprised by the Indians, and taken from their farms, on the frontiers of Pennsylvania, in the spring, 1780 by Walton, William, 1740-1824.
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Rare Books BX7735.G47 Z8 1784
Publication Date: Philadelphia : Printed and sold by J. Crukshank, 1784
A Narrative of the Dangers and Sufferings of Robert Eastburn During His Captivity in the Years 1756-1757 by Eastburn, Robert, 1710-1778.
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Collection BX7732.E13 A3 1996
Publication Date: Fairfield, Wash. : Ye Galleon Press, 1996
A narrative of the life of Mrs. Mary Jemison: who was taken by the Indians, in the year 1755, when only about twelve years of age, and has continued to reside amongst them to the present time by Seaver, James E. (James Everett), 1787-1827.
Call Number: H Special Collections Rare Books E87 .J47
Publication Date: Howden [Eng.]: Printed [by W. Walker, Otley.] for R. Parkin: 1826
A narrative of the sufferings of Massy Harbison: from Indian barbarity, giving an account of her captivity, the murder of her two children, her escape, with an infant at her breast; together with some account of the cruelties of the Indians, on the Allegh by Harbison, Massy White, "Mrs. J. Harbison," b. 1770.
Call Number: H Special Collections Rare Books E87 .H246
Publication Date: Pittsburgh [Pa.]: Printed by D. and M. Maclean. 1828
An account of the captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, now or late of Kachecky, in New-England: who ... was taken captive by the Indians ... Taken in substance from her own mouth by Hanson, Elizabeth, 1684-1737.
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Rare Books BX7735.H23 A3 1760
Publication Date: London : S. Clark, 1760
God's mercy surmounting man's cruelty: exemplified in the captivity and redemption of Elizabeth Hanson, wife of John Hanson, of Knoxmarsh at Kecheachy, in Dover township, who was taken captive with her children and maid-servant, by the Indians in New-Engl by Hanson, Elizabeth, 1684-1737.
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Rare Books BX7796.4 .L41
Publication Date: Stanford, N.Y. : Printed and sold by Daniel Lawrence, and Henry & John F. Hull, 1803
Seven and Nine Years Among the Camanches and Apaches: An Autobiography
Call Number: H Special Collections Rare Books E87 .E13 1873
Publication Date: Jersey City, N.J. : C. Johnson, 1873
The Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson by Hanson, Elizabeth, 1684-1737.
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Collection BX7735.H23 A3 2007
Publication Date: Durham [England] : Simon Webb, 2007
The War-path: a Narrative of Adventures in the Wilderness : with Minute Details of the Captivity of Sundry Persons, Amusing and Perilous Incidents During Their Abode in the Wild Woods, Fearful Battles with the Indians, Ceremony of Adoption into an Indian by Jones, J. B. (John Beauchamp), 1810-1866.
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Collection BX7724.J75 W6
Publication Date: Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1900

Penn Treaty Elm

William Penn, the Founder of Pennsylvania : and His Treaty with the Indians
Call Number: HC Special Collections Quaker Collection BX7723 .W71

Grant's Peace Policy

Grant, Ulysses S., Pres. U.S., 1822-1885
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Collection PG 5
Our Red Brothers and the Peace pPolicy of President Ulysses S. Grant by Tatum, Lawrie.
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Collection BX7644.T22 O93 1970
The Protestant Churches and Grant's Peace Policy: a Study in Church-State Relations, 1869-1882 by Keller, Robert H., 1934-
Call Number: H Special Collections Microforms Room BX7644.K19 P96 1967a
Publication Date: [Chicago : University of Chicago Library, 1967

Treaties

A Treaty between the President and Council of the Province of Pennsylvania, and the Indians of Ohio: Held at Philadelphia, Nov. 13. 1747
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Rare Books + BX7644 .C69
Publication Date: Philadelphia : Printed and sold by B. Franklin, at the new printing-office, near the market, 1748
A treaty held by commissioners, members of the council of the province of Pennsylvania, at the town of Lancaster: with some chiefs of the six nations at Ohio, and others, for the admission of the Twightwee Nation into the alliance of his Majesty, &c. in t
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Rare Books + BX7644 .C69
Publication Date: Philadelphia : Printed and sold by B. Franklin, 1748
A Treaty Held with the Ohio Indians at Carlisle, in October 1753
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Rare Books + BX7644 .C69
Publication Date: Philadelphia : B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1753
A Treaty Held with the Seneca Indians at Philadelphia the 1st July 1749
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Rare Books + BX7644 .C69
Publication Date: Philadelphia : B. Franklin, 1749
A Treaty, held at the town of Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, by the Honourable the lieutenant-governor of the province, and the Honourable the commissioners for the provinces of Virginia and Maryland, with the Indians of the Six Nations, in June, 1744
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Rare Books + BX7644 .C69
Publication Date: Philadelphia : Printed and sold by B. Franklin, at the new-printing-office, near the Market, 1744
An Account of the Treaty Held at the City of Albany, in the Province of New-York
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Rare Books + BX7644 .C69
Publication Date: Philadelphia : Printed by B. Franklin ..., 1746
At a Council Held at Philadelphia, the Twenty-First of August, 1744, A.M.
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Rare Books + BX7644 .C69
Publication Date: [Philadelphia : B. Franklin, 1745
Indian Treaties Printed by Benjamin Franklin (1736-1762)
Call Number: HC Special Collections Rare Folios E95.I3
Minutes of conferences, held at Easton, in October, 1758: with the chief sachems and warriors of the Mohawks, Oneidoes, Onondagoes, Cayugas, Senecas, Tuscaroras, Tuteloes, Skaniadaradigronos, consisting of the Nanticokes and Conoys, who now make one natio
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Rare Books + BX7644 .C69
Publication Date: Philadelphia : Printed and sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, 1759
Minutes of Conferences, Held at Lancaster, in August, 1762 with the Sachems and Warriors of Several Tribes of Northern and Western Indians
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Rare Books + BX7644 .C69
Publication Date: Philadelphia : Printed and sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall ..., 1763
Minutes of Conferences, Held with the Indians at Easton, in the Months of July, and August, 1757
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Rare Books + BX7644 .C69
Publication Date: Philadelphia : Printed and sold by B. Franklin and D. Hall ..., 1757
Minutes of Conferences, Held with the Indians, at Harris's Ferry, and at Lancaster, in March, April and May, 1757
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Rare Books + BX7644 .C69
Publication Date: Philadelphia : Printed and sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall ..., 1757
To William Denny, esquire, lieutenant governor and commander in cheif [!] of the province of Pennsylvania, &c.: the address of the trustees and treasurer of the Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Rare Books + BX7644 .C69
Publication Date: [Philadelphia : s.n., 1757

Pennsylvania Frontier and the Paxton Boys

A declaration and remonstrance of the distressed and bleeding frontier inhabitants of the province of Pennsylvania: presented by them to the Honourable the governor and Assembly of the province, shewing the causes of their late discontent and uneasiness a by Smith, Matthew.
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Rare Books BX7795.S648 D2
Publication Date: [Philadelphia : Printed [by W. Bradford?], 1764
A declaration and remonstrance of the distressed and bleeding frontier inhabitants of the province of Pennsylvania: presented by them to the Honourable the governor and Assembly of the province, shewing the causes of their late discontent and uneasiness a by Smith, Matthew.
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Rare Books BX7795.S648 D2
Publication Date: [Philadelphia : Printed [by W. Bradford?], 1764
A looking-glass for Presbyterians: or A brief examination of their loyalty, merit and other qualifications for government by Hunt, Isaac, 1751-1809.
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Rare Books BX7795.D74 Q2 Z3
Publication Date: Philadelphia : [A. Armbruster], 1764
A narrative of the late massacres: in Lancaster County, of a number of Indians, friends of this province, by persons unknown. With some observations on the same by Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Rare Books BX7624 .C65
Publication Date: [Philadelphia : Printed by Anthony Armbruster], 1764
An address to the Rev. Dr. Alison, the Rev. Mr. Ewing, and others, trustees of the Corporation for the relief of Presbyterian ministers, their widows and children: being a vindication of the Quakers from the aspersions of the said trustees in their Letter
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Rare Books BX7795.C82 L6Z
Publication Date: [Philadelphia] : Printed [by William Dunlap], 1765
Copy of a letter from Charles Read, Esq, to the Hon: John Ladd, Esq. and his associates, justices of the peace for the county of Gloucester by Read, Charles, 1715-1774.
Call Number: H Special Collections Rare Books F152 .R28
Publication Date: Philadelphia : Printed & sold by Andrew Steuart, 1764
Friends and enemies in Penn's Woods: Indians, colonists, and the racial construction of Pennsylvania
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Collection BX7797.2.I3 F89 2004
Publication Date: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004
Massacre of the Conestogas: on the trail of the Paxton Boys in Lancaster County by Brubaker, John H.
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Collection BX7797.2.I3 B88 2010
Publication Date: Charleston, SC : History Press, 2010
Peaceable kingdom lost: the Paxton Boys and the destruction of William Penn's holy experiment by Kenny, Kevin, 1960-
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Collection BX7644.K34 P34 2009
Publication Date: New York : Oxford University Press, 2009
The cheat unmask'd: being a refutation of that illegitimate letter, said to be wrote by a cleryman in town: in a true copy of a letter from that clergyman to his friend
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Rare Books BX7799.F912 C514
Publication Date: [Philadelphia] : Printed [by Henry Miller], 1764
The Devil's Servants: Satire in Colonial America and the Visual Language of Conflict by Bogansky, Amy Elizabeth.
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Collection BX7663.P4 B67 2006
Publication Date: 2006
The journal of a two months tour: with a view of promoting religion among the frontier inhabitants of Pennsylvania, and of introducing Christianity among the Indians to the westward of the Alegh-geny Mountains by Beatty, Charles, 1715?-1772.
Call Number: H Special Collections Rare Books E98.M6 B36
Publication Date: London : Printed for W. Davenhill [etc.], 1768
The Quaker unmask'k: or, Plain truth: humbly address'd to the consideration of all the freemen of Pennsylvania by Dove, David James, 1696?-1769.
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Rare Books BX7795.D74 Q2
Publication Date: Philadelphia : Printed [by Andrew Steuart] in the year of our Lord, unknown
The Quaker vindicated: or, Observations on a late pamphlet, entituled, The Quaker unmask'd, or, Plain truth by Philalethes, pseud.
Call Number: H Special Collections Quaker Rare Books BX7795.D74 Q2 Z1
Publication Date: [Philadelphia] : Printed [by Andrew Steuart], 1764

Missionary Work

Map: Grand River Quarterly Meeting, Oklahoma and Arkansas
Call Number: 995
Map of Grand River Quarterly Meeting of Friends, located in Oklahoma and part of Arkansas, including the missionary stations under the care of the Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs. Not dated.
Pictures of Indian Missions Native American Missions, Schools, etc.
Call Number: Manuscripts Coll. 928