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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 for a...
Dates:
1763-1770
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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- Albany (N.Y.) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
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- Sedgwick, Theodore, 1746-1813 1
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