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Title

Visit to the Indians in 1798

Authors

• Coates, Isaac
• Sharpless, Joshua
• Pierce, John

Call number

MC 950
(Haverford, Special Collections, Haverford College, Miscellaneous Quaker Materials)

Publisher

Special Collections, Haverford College

Language

Primary language: English.

Origin

Date

From 1798 to 1799

Place

New York (State)
Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.)

Summary

Account of the visit of Isaac Coates, Joshua Sharpless, and John Pierce to the Native American reservation on the Allegheny River in New York State. They travelled under the auspices of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, and were accompanied by Henry Simmons, Joel Swayne, and Halliday Jackson, who were to remain on the reservation. The travelers left Chester County on 1.5.1789.

Subjects topical

• Society of Friends -- Indian affairs
• Indians of North America -- History
• Indians of North America -- Missions
• Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Indian Committee

Subjects geographic

• New York (State)
• Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.)

Genres

• diaries

Licenses

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