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Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

 Organization

Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:

Accounting statements

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT oversize-Ayer-MS-3069
Abstract Includes three separate accounting statements recording ordnance supplies held at Greenleaf's Point and at Fort Belle Fontaine.The first item is a detailed accounting notebook (18 pages) of expenditures for basic supplies at Greenleaf's Point Arsenal (1817-1820) under the command of Capt. Joseph S. Nelson. The notebook contains over 400 entries for a variety of provisions including lumber, shovels, nails, rope, oil and lead. The other two items briefly enumerate accounts of ordnance stores...
Dates: 1820

Benjamin Hawkins letters

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-368
Abstract North Carolina planter, U.S. senator, and Indian agent. Letters concerning southern Indian affairs, 1796-1812, from Hawkins to Col. David Henley, U.S. War Dept. agent based in Knoxville; James Jackson, governor of Georgia, 1798-1801; and Harry Toulmin, a prominent Mobile resident and later federal judge in the Mississippi Territory. Subjects include setting the boundary line between the U.S. and the Creek Nation along the Clinch River and settlers on Indian lands there (1797); horse thefts...
Dates: 1797-1812

Charles Apthorp correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-27
Abstract

Letters to London merchant John Thomlinson, mainly related to the financial arrangements, sale, and shipment of merchandise to Boston. Apthorp was born in England in 1698 and educated at Eton College. He was later appointed by the English government as paymaster and commissary of the land and naval forces quartered in Boston. Apthorp also became one of the most distinguished merchants in Boston during the 1730's until his death in 1758.

Dates: 1738-1751; Majority of material found within 1738 - 1739

Charles S. Stobie papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-834
Abstract Artist's journal, sketches and notes, essay, photograph, and letter of Charles S. Stobie, 1866?-1902. Journal kept at the Ignacio Ute Agency during Oct., 1900, and May-Aug., 1902, contains sketches of Ute and Navajo Indians and their dwellings, weapons, saddles, pottery, and clothes; sketches of scenery with notes on color and lighting; glossaries of Ute and Spanish words; a list of agency employees; and store accounts. There are also several single drawings (1899), a ms. essay regarding the...
Dates: 1866-1902

Edward E. Ayer U.S. Board of Indian Commissioners files

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-911
Abstract Correspondence, minutes, reports, memoranda, bulletins, 1912-1922, relating to Edward E. Ayer's work as a commissioner. Dating primarily from Ayer's period of active service, 1912-1917, there is both incoming and outgoing correspondence with commission members and officials (H.C. Phillips, W.K. Moorehead, G. Vaux, F.H. Abbott, M. McDowell, W.H. Ketchum), the secretary of the interior (F.K. Lane), the commissioner of Indian affairs (C. Sells), the foreman of the Menominee sawmill (A.S....
Dates: 1912-1922

Edward Hatch letters

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-3087
Abstract Born in Bangor, Me., and educated in Norwich, Vt., Edward Hatch emigrated ca. 1852 to Muscatine, Iowa, where he operated a lumberyard (Hatch & Fullerton). After serving with distinction in the Civil War, Hatch on July 28, 1866, was commissioned colonel of one of two new colored cavalry regiments, the 9th U.S. Cavalry. He commanded the regiment for twenty-three years, serving nine years on the Texas frontier before assuming command of the Department of New Mexico (1876-1881). He died at...
Dates: 1867-1870

Ely Samuel Parker papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-674
Abstract Speeches, lecture notes, and correspondence, ca. 1850-1885, of Ely Samuel Parker, regarding Indian customs and traits, the Indian policies of government and religious bodies, and his own background. Includes an undated July 4th address re temperance; lecture notes (ca. 1850) on Indian dances, games, and social and domestic habits; an address (ca. 1878) containing autobiographical notes and commentary on white Indian policy from the Pilgrims to the early 19th century; and lecture notes (1885)...
Dates: approximately 1850-1885

Faustinus Antelope letters and petition

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-24
Abstract Two letters, Aug. 23 and Sept. 7, 1918, from Faustinus W. Antelope, an Arapahoe Indian of Arapahoe, Wyo. (Wind River Reservation), to the Field Museum of Natural History and Edward E. Ayer, together with the text of a petition, all regarding the opposition of E.A. Hutchinson, the agent to the Arapahoes, to a performance of the Sun Dance for the benefit of the Red Cross. The dance was prohibited during Hutchinson's entire tenure (1917-1922) at the Shoshone Superintendency. Also includes a...
Dates: 1918

Gabriel Harrison letters

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-3038
Abstract Letters regarding John Howard Payne to Gabriel Harrison from three current and former U.S. consuls to Tunis, William Penn Chandler of Philadelphia, George Whitfield Fish of Tunis and Flint, Mich., and Amos Perry of Providence, R.I. Also one letter, also about Payne, from Fish to Thomas J. McKee, a New York lawyer and friend of Harrison's. The letters, which were probably responses to a correspondence initiated by Harrison during the revision of his 1875 work, concern the circumstances of...
Dates: 1873-1883

George Croghan letters

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-195
Abstract A collection of four letters and one order primarily from Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania relating to Croghan's official duties between 1763 and 1770. In the first letter dated Mar. 1763 Croghan reports to Sir William Johnson that a draft (unidentified) was completed by his assistant Thomas Hutchins, future geographer of the U.S. In the second letter (copy) dated June 1766 to Gen. Gage, Croghan urges him to encourage the colonial governors to maintain peace with the Indians and mentions his plans...
Dates: 1763-1770

Henry Perry letters

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-709
Abstract Letters (Jan. 24, 1849-May 28, 1850) written from New York City, Rio de Janeiro, Valparaiso, San Francisco, and Sacramento by Henry Perry to his Bridgeport family (parents Mr. and Mrs. David Perry, sister Emmeline, and brothers Alf, Tom, and Frederick), regarding his experiences en route to San Francisco, his return voyage from Hawaii, and economic and living conditions in gold rush San Francisco and Sacramento. Of particular interest are accounts of robberies in Sacramento, and pen drawings...
Dates: 1849-1850

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

Hercules L. Dousman papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-18
Abstract Correspondence, agreements, powers of attorney, accounts, promissory notes, etc., of Hercules Dousman, primarily relating to his fur trade business.,Included are contractual agreements between Dousman, Sibley, and Rolette, and the American Fur Company (1834, 1841) and Pierre Chouteau Jr. & Co. (1842), and Dousman's statements of account (including several for the steamboat Ariel) with the firms. Also a power of attorney, correspondence, and other documents relating to Dousman's efforts...
Dates: 1808-1857, bulk 1840-1857; Majority of material found within 1840 - 1857

Herman Haupt papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-366
Notice of Culturally Sensitive Indigenous Materials This collection contains content identified by the library as Culturally Sensitive to Indigenous People(s): Drawings and descriptions of sacred ceremonies, burial and death rituals. For more information please see the Newberry Library’s policy on Access to Culturally Sensitive Indigenous Materials. Scope and Contents...
Dates: 1897-1921

Indian land deeds

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT oversize-Ayer-MS-404
Abstract Deeds and indentures, 1639-1787, transferring or leasing Indian lands to white inhabitants of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York. Properties are located in Norwalk, Norwich, Ridgefield, and Wethersfield, Conn.; Boston, Charlestown, Rochester, Satucket, Scituate, and Plymouth Colony, Mass.; and Long Island, and Orange, Ulster and Schenectady counties, N.Y. Two deeds (Dec. 23, 1685 and Mar. 5, 1787) are on vellum. There are seals on eleven deeds: New York - Dec. 23, 1685, Mar. 5, 1787;...
Dates: 1639-1787

James J. Dana papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT oversize-Ayer-MS-3003
Abstract Military commissions and appointments, 1841-1882, with some transmittal letters, and an 1890 certificate of membership in the Washington, D.C. Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Includes an 1841 Massachusetts Militia commission and nine appointments issued and signed by U.S. Presidents Pierce, Lincoln, Johnson, and Arthur, and Secretaries of War Jefferson Davis, Edwin Stanton, and Robert T. Lincoln to regular and brevet ranks in the 4th Artillery Regiment, 1855-1857, and the...
Dates: 1841-1890

James Wilkinson letters

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-982
Abstract Small collection of correspondence and a few orders written by James Wilkinson, military officer, western land speculator, and governor of Louisiana, between 1792 and 1818. The majority of the letters were written at Fort Washington and Fort Hamilton in Ohio and relate to Indian affairs and military operations in the Northwest Territory during the 1790s. The correspondents include quartermaster general Samuel Hodgdon, Pennsylvania militia officer John Armstrong, and Lieutenant William...
Dates: 1792-1818

John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-378
Abstract A small collection of correspondence (seven letters) written by Heckewelder from his home in Bethlehem, Pa. to three individuals between the years 1790 and 1822.,The largest group of letters were written to William Alexander, a surveyor residing in Carlisle, Pa., dated 23 March 1790 to 8 Feb. 1791. In these letters Heckewelder engages the services of Alexander to survey five warrents of land (650 acres) in eastern Ohio purchased by Heckewelder and others. He also instructs Alexander to...
Dates: 1790-1822

John Wilson letters

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-3207
Abstract Collection of correspondence (1859-1865) from Virginia City, Nevada written by or regarding John Wilson to his wife in Vermont. Wilson, a young farmer from Vermont, left his pregnant wife and sailed for the West in Sept. 1859 to seek his fortune. After his arrival in San Francisco, he headed for Virginia City crossing the Sierra Mountains on foot in May 1860. Using his income as a bartender, Wilson immediately began to stake out claims. Many of his letters give a vivid and detailed...
Dates: 1859-1865

Louis McLane Hamilton collection

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-356
Abstract Correspondence, extracts of reports, printed obituaries and resolutions, newspaper clippings, 1867-1867, possibly collected by Benson John Lossing, concerning the life of Capt. Louis McLane Hamilton and his death at the Battle of Washita. Includes correspondence of Philip Hamilton (father) to Lossing, and Robert Mayhew West (forwarding copy of 7th Cavalry resolution on Hamilton's death to the Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle); ms. extracts from Custer's July 6, 1867, order praising Hamilton's...
Dates: 1867-1869

Ninian Edwards letters

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-401
Abstract Six letters, Mar. 7, 1813 - Apr. 4, 1814, from Ninian Edwards to Kentucky governor and soldier Isaac Shelby, regarding War of 1812-related Indian attacks in the Illinois Territory and the state of defenses there. 1813 letters discuss mounted volunteer companies raised by Edwards, British intentions regarding the upper Mississippi, Indian attacks on settlers in the U.S. Saline and elsewhere, etc. Warning of an impending Indian-British offensive on Illinois Territory, Edwards' 1814 letters...
Dates: 1813-1814

O. C. McNary papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-3128
Abstract Printed and handwritten army orders, 1882-1886, and letters written by O.C. McNary during 1885 from Indian Territory to his family in Kansas and Pennsylvania. From Camp Russel, Fort Reno, and a camp at Skelton Ranch, McNary's correspondence documents his trips via ambulance and mules throughout the Indian Territory. He describes road conditions, the Ponca and Oto agencies and Indians, a prairie fire, a visit with friends in Arkansas City, and the murder of a Chickasaw Indian by outlaws at...
Dates: 1873-1886; Majority of material found within 1882-1886

Ohio Company records

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-3091
Abstract Company formed Mar. 1, 1786, by Revolutionary War officers to raise capital for the acquisition and settlement of federal lands northwest of the Ohio River. Minutes, correspondence, accounts, receipts, powers of attorney, lists, etc. (bulk 1787-1793) of Ohio Company of Associates agent, Benjamin Heywood, a former Continental Army officer and resident of Worcester, Mass. Included are minutes of Worcester area subscribers' meetings (1787-1789) in which Heywood was elected one of three agents...
Dates: 1787-1800; Majority of material found within 1787-1793

Oliver Wolcott letters

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-921
Abstract Thirteen letters, Mar. 11, 1795- Dec. 11, 1800, written by Oliver Wolcott, secretary of the treasury, to David Henley, general agent for the War Dept. in the Territory of the United States, South of the River Ohio, regarding public contracts for military and Indian supplies in what is now Tennessee.,The letters contain rules and regulations regarding the administration of contracts, as well as numerous directives regarding the choice of contractors to supply both the region and the Tellico...
Dates: 1795-1800

Ramsay Crooks correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-201
Abstract Correspondence and list of Ramsay Crooks, dating primarily from 1822 and mainly regarding American Fur Company business. Subjects include the reception of trade goods in Philadelphia, the operation of the new Western Department in St. Louis (instructions re trade goods, trader indebtedness, fur shipments, etc.), and the purchase of Missouri and Mississippi River factory skins. Fur company-related correspondents include Samuel Abbott (agent at St. Louis), Robert Stuart (Northern Department...
Dates: 1822-1836; 1822

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Cavalry pioneer troops -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 2
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Correspondence -- Southern States -- 1751-1800 2
Indian land transfers -- New York (State) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 2
Indians of North America -- Tennessee -- Government relations -- Sources 2
Land settlement -- Ohio -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 2
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois 2
Merchants -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 2
Merchants -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 2
Military supplies -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 2
Seals (Provenance) -- Massachusetts -- 1701-1750 2
Tellico Blockhouse Site (Tenn.) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 2
Accounts 1
Accounts -- Missouri -- Fort Belle Fontaine -- 1801-1850 1
Accounts -- Washington (D.C.) -- Fort Lesley J. McNair -- 1801-1850 1
Addresses -- 1851-1900 1
African American soldiers -- Texas -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Agreements 1
Albany (N.Y.) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
Amboy (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
American loyalists -- History -- Sources 1
Appraisals -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 1701-1750 1
Arapaho Indians -- Rites and ceremonies -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Artists -- Colorado -- History -- Sources 1
Autographs (Provenance) -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 1701-1750 1
Autographs (Provenance) -- United States -- 19th century 1
Birch Coulee, Battle of, Minn., 1862 -- Sources 1
Boston (Mass.) -- Commerce -- England -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
Boston (Mass.) -- Commerce -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources 1
Bounties, Military -- Ohio -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
Bounties, Military -- United States -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
Boyd, Robert K., 1945?-. Battle of Birch Coulee 1
Boyd, Robert K., 1945?-. Early conditions of the Chippewa Valley 1
Boyd, Robert K., 1945?-. Real Indian 1
Brothers and sisters -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
California, Northern -- Description and travel 1
Certificates -- Southern States -- 1751-1800 1
Checks (bank checks) -- Nevada -- Virginia City -- 1851-1900 1
Cherokee Indians -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
Cheyenne Indians -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Cheyenne Indians -- Wars -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Chickasaw Indians -- Government relations -- Sources 1
Chickasaw Indians -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Chihuahua (Chihuahua, Mexico) -- Description and travel 1
Chippewa River Valley (Wis.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Church and state -- Massachusetts -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
Clergy -- New England -- Correspondence 1
Clerks -- California -- Sacramento -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Clippings -- Nevada -- Virginia City -- 1851-1900 1
Commissions -- Illinois -- 1851-1900 1
Commissions -- Massachusetts -- 1801-1850 1
Commissions -- United States -- 1851-1900 1
Comstock Lode (Nev.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Connecticut -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources 1
Constitutional conventions -- Northeastern States -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
Correspondence 1
Correspondence -- 1751-1800 1
Correspondence -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- 1901-1950 1
Correspondence -- California, Northern -- 1801-1850 1
Correspondence -- Illinois -- 1801-1850 1
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Correspondence -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
Correspondence -- Indian Territory -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- Michigan -- Flint -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- Michigan -- Mackinac Island (Island) -- 1801-1850 1
Correspondence -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- 1801-1850 1
Correspondence -- Nevada -- Virginia City -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- New England -- 1701-1750 1
Correspondence -- New England -- 1751-1800 1
Correspondence -- New York (State) -- 1801-1850 1
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Correspondence -- New York (State) -- Poughkeepsie -- 1851-1900 1
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Correspondence -- Oklahoma -- Fort Supply -- 1851-1900 1
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Correspondence -- Pennsylvania -- Bethlehem -- 1751-1800 1
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Correspondence -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 1851-1900 1
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Correspondence -- South America -- 1801-1850 1
Correspondence -- Southern States -- 1801-1850 1
Correspondence -- Texas -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- Tunisia -- Tunis -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- Washington (D.C.) -- 1751-1800 1
Correspondence -- Wisconsin -- Eau Claire -- 1901-1950 1
Correspondence -- Wyoming -- Wind River Indian Reservation -- 1901-1950 1
Creek Indians -- Government relations -- Sources 1
Creek Indians -- Wars -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
Creek Indians -- Wars -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Dakota Indians -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works 1
Dakota Indians -- Wars, 1862-1865 -- Sources 1
Dakota language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. 1
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