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Text: Whereas by Mutual agreement between Oliver L. Phelps of Canandaigua County of Ontario & State of New York and Jonathan Barlow of …County of Hampshire once State of Massachusetts it is agreed that a …..given this day by said .. as his & administration of the Estate of Oliver L. Phelps Esq. late of Canandaigua always shall be .. with Capt. Jasper Parrish of said Canandaigua to him held, or delivered as in hereafter stated It is … the understanding that paid change is to be final and...
Show moreWhereas by Mutual agreement between Oliver L. Phelps of Canandaigua County of Ontario & State of New York and Jonathan Barlow of …County of Hampshire once State of Massachusetts it is agreed that a …..given this day by said .. as his & administration of the Estate of Oliver L. Phelps Esq. late of Canandaigua always shall be .. with Capt. Jasper Parrish of said Canandaigua to him held, or delivered as in hereafter stated It is … the understanding that paid change is to be final and conclusion as to any claim of the Estate of Oliver L. Phelps d… against said Jonathan Barlow but as this this an others .. whom it is thought may be able to pay this proportion of said Bond,it is agree that said Jonathan Barlow shall not have the benefits of said … to .. against the Estate of said Phelps or in favor of the other …, but that in .. he should be found on any of the Bond aforesaid and be able to .. and .. then the said Parish on having proper nation of the same shall be authorized to deliver said … to John Barlow- said Barlow further agrees that before he applies for said d.. he will notify said Phelps of the same, and if in any .. then may be instructed, against him in which he may be liable for cost or damages said phelps will give sufficient indemnity for such liability and it may be .. for said Phelps to make up of the name of said Barlow, then in that .. the .. shall not … to relieve the other .. from this … Signed in presents of Jasper Parrish Oliver L. Phelps J[?] Barlow
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Date: 1792-11
Text: Numbers of the six Nations, viz, Senekas Main Villag Buffaloe Creek 331 White Chiefs Village 107 Cataragrous 225 Munces Cataragrous 143 Cornplanters two Villages 331 Tonwanters 104 Cohanagues 22 Genesee 91 Bigtree 96 Squaka Hill 190 Ka oun a dee 148 Onondagous at Buffalo Creek 215 At their old Reservation 145 360 Oneidas 600 At Genesee 26 626 Tuskaroas Niagara 262 at Oneidas 63 325 Cayugas at Cayuga 51 at Buffaloe 22 Stockbridge Indians near Oneida 315 To Share the annuity of 4500, DrsThe...
Show moreNumbers of the six Nations, viz, Senekas Main Villag Buffaloe Creek 331 White Chiefs Village 107 Cataragrous 225 Munces Cataragrous 143 Cornplanters two Villages 331 Tonwanters 104 Cohanagues 22 Genesee 91 Bigtree 96 Squaka Hill 190 Ka oun a dee 148 Onondagous at Buffalo Creek 215 At their old Reservation 145 360 Oneidas 600 At Genesee 26 626 Tuskaroas Niagara 262 at Oneidas 63 325 Cayugas at Cayuga 51 at Buffaloe 22 Stockbridge Indians near Oneida 315 To Share the annuity of 4500, DrsThe foregoing numbers of the Six Nations taken by Col. Pickering in Nov 1792 at a treaty held in CannadaiguayMain Village Buffaloe Creek 331 White Chiefs Village 107 Cataragaus 225 Allagany 331 Tonawande 100 Canawagus 22 Genesee Village 91 Bigtree 96 Squaka Hill 100 31 Kaonnoeeo 120 Onondagus B C 215 Tuskeroras 200 Cayuas BC, 50 Oneidas at Genesee 30 Munses at Caturagurs 143 Do at B. Creek 15Numbers of the six Nations
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Creator: Davis, Jefferson
Date: n.d.
Text: Jefferson Davis ? N. M. Browne Esqr. Constitution office Washington D. C.

Creator: Chapin, Israel
Date: 1802-07-30
Text: Brothers - I am sorry to hear of the very disagreeable news from Buffaloe Creek that one of our people has been killed by one of your people. Brothers - This news is terrible disagreeable and afflicting, it naturally excites temper and revenge at the first appearance - but Brothers let us reflect & be cool and endeavor to finde out what ought to be done to bring our minds to harmonize & good agreement again - These things have happened and they have been settled, and I suppose it will...
Show moreBrothers - I am sorry to hear of the very disagreeable news from Buffaloe Creek that one of our people has been killed by one of your people. Brothers - This news is terrible disagreeable and afflicting, it naturally excites temper and revenge at the first appearance - but Brothers let us reflect & be cool and endeavor to finde out what ought to be done to bring our minds to harmonize & good agreement again - These things have happened and they have been settled, and I suppose it will be right in this case to take such measures as to have this business reconciled, and that the whole of community should not be rendered unhappy by the quarrel of individuals. Brs - You will consider nothing improper in taking the Indian who stabbed one man & killed one other and placing him in confinement. I consider the white people in this respect justifiable, as he fell on them as a mad man without any provocation as I have been told. Brs - You on your part I trust will do nothing rash or hasty in this business & I hope & believe the white people on their part will conduct with humanity and prudence. Brs - The President of the United States must be made acquainted with this transaction, who will enter into such measures as to preserve our general peace & friendship unbroken. Brs - The reason you do not see me at Buffaloe Creek on this occasion is, The president of the U States has removed me from office & this day my office terminates. Capt. Irvine who I believe lives at Presqu-isle is to be my successor, and ought to meet you on this business, and as his agency commences I suppose it is probably he will be with you soon. Brothers - I should have been happy to have your Chiefs come forward to this place as you proposed & still shall expect to see you, as some business of importance will be left to be transacted by me. Brs - As this is the last speech that you will received from me as Agent of Indian affairs I hope you will pay due attention to it, as no one wishes more for your happiness and prosperity than Brothers your friend and Hble servt Israel Chapin Canandauga July 31 1802
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Creator: Savage, John
Date: 1822-07-26
Text: On back: John Savage letter July 26, 1822 Jasper Parrish Esqr Canandaigua N York Albany July 26 State of New York Comptrollers Office Albany July 26, 1822. Dear Sir Yours of the 22d instant enclosing receipts for Indian annuities paid by you, is received - I have drawn a warrant in your favor for $34. the amount of your amount. - I am Sir, very respectfully Your obedt Servt (Signed) John Savage Compt Jasper Parrish Esqr Canandaigua

Creator: Dickinson, Nancy
Date: 1834-12-28
Text: Elbridge Dec. 28th 1834 My dear Sister It has become my painful duty to announce to you the melancholia tidings of the death of our beloved daughter Nancy. She was married and left here for Michigan on the morning of 5th Novr. She caught cold on her journey which brought on a violent inflammation of the lungs attended with high fever and towards the close partial delirium was caused by the inflammatory action extending to the brain, and on 19th of the present month her Spirit left its frail...
Show moreElbridge Dec. 28th 1834 My dear Sister It has become my painful duty to announce to you the melancholia tidings of the death of our beloved daughter Nancy. She was married and left here for Michigan on the morning of 5th Novr. She caught cold on her journey which brought on a violent inflammation of the lungs attended with high fever and towards the close partial delirium was caused by the inflammatory action extending to the brain, and on 19th of the present month her Spirit left its frail tenement of clay and winged its way, I trust to the mansions of peace and blessedness, her death was as calm and happy as an infants sleep, and we are left to mourn our irreparable loss. While we were daily witnessing the wasting away of my Dear and only son by consumption and thinking our affliction as great as we could bear think oh, my Sister what an overwhelming and heart rending scene of affliction this sudden and unexpected death of our beloved daughter must have been - but the Lord tempers the wind for the shorn lamb. He wounds and he can heal, he mingles comfort and consolation in all our troubles and blessed be his name forever. I want to hear from you in this our Season of Sorrow for I know your family will sympathize with us. give my love to them all, and that you may long enjoy health and happiness is the Sincere Prayer of your affectionate Sister Nancy DickinsonPaid 10 Elbridge M Dec 29 Mrs. Jasper Parrish Canandaigua Ontario CountyNancy Dickinson Elbridge Dec. 1884
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Date: 1826 n.d.
Text: The Commissioners of the State of New York To Horatio Jones ---- Dr. To my service attending as Interpreter from the 11th June to the 2nd July 21 Days at 24/ pr day $63 - Horatio Jones July 2, 1802 Gentlemen please to pay the above sum Sixty three Dollars to Jasper Parrish & you will much oblige Your hum Servt. Horatio Jones Mr. Ezra Lamidien and Oliver Phelps Esq & C D Cooper Commissns of the State of New York Cananaugaras 2nd July 1802Sir Inclosed is a small Note against Richard...
Show moreThe Commissioners of the State of New York To Horatio Jones ---- Dr. To my service attending as Interpreter from the 11th June to the 2nd July 21 Days at 24/ pr day $63 - Horatio Jones July 2, 1802 Gentlemen please to pay the above sum Sixty three Dollars to Jasper Parrish & you will much oblige Your hum Servt. Horatio Jones Mr. Ezra Lamidien and Oliver Phelps Esq & C D Cooper Commissns of the State of New York Cananaugaras 2nd July 1802Sir Inclosed is a small Note against Richard Knight. I understand that he resides in your Vicinity - I wish you would be so good as to try to collect it of him - and you will oblige your friend -10-- John H. FrisbeeDoctor Frisbee letter Octr. 5, 1805 Capt Jasp Canan Nordly Sent TaylorCanandaigua June 28th 1826 Robert White Esq. Cash Dear Sir This will be handed to you by Capt. Parrish One of the Directors of this Institution. Should Capt. Parrish wish for Two, or Three Thousand Dollars, be pleased to Cash his draft on me for that amount- I am very Respectfully Your On a. obt. Servt. H. Willison Cash
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Date: 1803, n.d.
Text: Ontario County Times, 16 Apr. 1897 Among the Indians A Sketch of the Life as an Interesting Character A Friend of Red Jacket Seven years of Jasper Parrish's Youth Were Spent in Captivity Among Several Indian Tribes - His Kindness to them. In the old Canandaigua cemetery stands a plain and unpretentious marble headstone, which marks the last resting place of Jasper Parrish, one of the most remarkable residents of this village during the early part of this century. The truth of his strange...
Show moreOntario County Times, 16 Apr. 1897 Among the Indians A Sketch of the Life as an Interesting Character A Friend of Red Jacket Seven years of Jasper Parrish's Youth Were Spent in Captivity Among Several Indian Tribes - His Kindness to them. In the old Canandaigua cemetery stands a plain and unpretentious marble headstone, which marks the last resting place of Jasper Parrish, one of the most remarkable residents of this village during the early part of this century. The truth of his strange adventures might be doubted were is not for the fact that Capt. Parrish himself has left an account of his life and career. This narrative, which is written in a very graphic manner, is now in the possession of William Gorham, of Canandaigua, a grandson of Capt. Parrish, to whom the writer of this article is indebted for the loan of the manuscript, as well as for other valuable information relating to the subject of this sketch. CAPT. JASPER PARRISH Jasper Parrish was born in the year 1766 at Windham, Conn. At the outbreak of the Revolutionary war his father had settled near the headwaters of the Delaware river in this state, having made a clearing in the forest with his axe, and built a log hut for himself and his family. One summer's day in the year 1778, when Jasper was a lad of 11 years, he and his father, while about six miles from their home, were surprised and captured by a party of Munsee Indians. They were carried up the Delaware to a place known as the "Cook House,"where they were separated. The father was taken to Fort Niagara and delivered to the British, and two years later was exchanged and returned to his home; while the son was given to a chief called Capt. Mounsh, and remained a captive among the Indians nearly seven years. He stayed among the Munsee tribe until October of the year in which he was captured, when his master took him to Chemung, at that time an important Indian settlement. As they entered the village they were met by a crowd of howling savages who pulled Jasper from his horse and beat him brutally with clubs and the handles of their tomahawks until he was more dead than alive. Soon afterward Jasper was sold to a Delaware Indian family that treated him kindly. Nevertheless, he had to endure terrible hardships, suffering severely from both cold and hunger. In the winter when the rivers were frozen and the ground covered with snow, Jasper and the Indian boys were often compelled to throw off their blankets and leap into the water through holes cut in the ice. This was done in order to render their bodies less sensitive to cold. Once, also, he narrowly escaped losing his life. One evening two Indians who were ugly from drink sat down opposite him at the camp-fire, and began to plan how they might get money with which to buy more rum. Finally, one proposed that they kill Jasper and take his scalp to the fort, and obtain the bounty offered by the British for Yankee scalps. Jasper, being familiar with their language, was instantly on his guard, so that when one of the Indians drew a half burnt brand from the fire and hurled it at his head, he dodged the missile, and being a swift runner, escaped into the forest. The next morning when the Indians had recovered from the effects of the British rum, he returned to camp, and was not further molested. Parrish remained with the Delawares until the spring of 1780. During his stay with them, he witnessed their defeat by the expedition of General Sullivan, at Newtown - near where Elmira now stands - and accompanied them on their retreat to Niagara, after the battle. His master took him to the fort, and finding no white man wishing to purchase him, sold him for $20 to a Mohawk chief of some prominence, called Captain David Hill. This proved to be a most fortunate change for Parrish, because Captain Hill grew to be very fond of him, and at length brought him before the council of the chiefs, and formally adopted him as his son, giving him the name of Sne-ed-ah-wah. His life among the Mohawks was a happy one, as he was allowed to spend his time in hunting, fishing and trapping, being forced to do no labor beyond his strength, and was always supplied with good food and cloth- He remained with this tribe five years, until after the treaty of Fort Stanwix, in 1784, when he returned to his family, who were then living at Goshen, Orange county. After his release from captivity, Parrish was little better than the savages among whom he had dwelt, for, although he could speak fluently six Indian languages, he had only a faint recollection of English. He attended school for nine months after his return, but except for that short period of instruction, his education was wholly obtained by his contact with others, and his personal observation. However, Capt. Parrish became very valuable to the government as an interpreter, acting in that capacity at numerous conferences and councils, and officiated at the adoption of the famous Pickering treaty of 1794. In 1792, he was appointed by President Washington interpreter to the Six Nations, and in 1803 became government sub-agent to the same tribes, holding both offices up to the beginning of Jackson's second administration. He removed to Canandaigua in 1792, having previously been married to the daughter of Gen. Edward Paine, the founder of Painesville, O. He built himself a house on the corner of Main and Parrish streets, which latter bears his name, and resided there until his death, which occurred in 1836. Capt. Parrish is described as being tall, slender in his youth, but somewhat stout in his later years, with light hair and mild blue eyes. His portrait is not that of a rough backwoodsman or trapper, but rather that of a cultured and refined country gentleman. He possessed remarkable influence over the Indians of the Six Nations, for he never forgot their kindness to him while he was a captive among them, and acted in accordance with this feeling of gratitude. The Indians not only justly considered him as their truest friend and protector among the white men, but also stood in awe of him. His word was law to them. Even Red Jacket, the great sachem of the Senecas, who bent the councils of the Six Nations to his will, was awed by this quiet and unassuming man. Capt. Parrish used to delight in telling this story as illustrative of his power over Red Jacket. One evening Red Jacket came to his house drunk and in a particularly ugly mood, and when Mrs. Parrish opened the door, stood with his tomahawk uplifted as if about to strike, and inquired Ïs She-ed-ah-wah at home?" Mrs. Parrish, not at all terrified by his menacing looks and gestures, replied, "He is here, and is looking at you now." Instantly Red Jacket lowered his tomahawk, and became sobered and subdued. In later years some of the Oneida and Onondaga Indians, wishing to show their affection for Capt. Parrish, were accustomed to make a visit to him once or twice a year, and even after his death these simple-hearted and and affectionate Indians appeared at the house of his daughter, saying, "We come to see Sne-ed-ah-wah's papoose." And thus these friendly visits to his children and grandchildren continued until about ten years ago, when they finally ceased. As death drew near Jasper Parrish might well look back upon his career with a feeling of satisfaction not unmixed with pride. He had labored the greater part of his life to improve the deplorable condition of his dark-skinned brethren; he had brought to bear upon them every christianizing and civilizing influence possible, and had lived to see his efforts crowned with a considerable degree of success. Henry W. Hamlin.Canandaigua, N. Y., Wednesday, June 21, 1922 A Table With a History Shown in the Museum Once the Property of Jasper Parris, the Government Indian Interpreter - Stood in His Kitchen. In the "Old Fashioned Kitchen" in the Historical Society's building in Canandaigua, is an old cherry table, about whose battered top and rickety legs cling memories of the days when white settlers were driving their first stakes in what had only recently been an unknown wilderness. The table was once the property of the Government Indian interpreter, Captain Jasper Parrish, as is authentically known, and standing as it did in the kitchen of his house in Canandaigua in the last years of the eighteenth century and the first years of the nineteenth could recite, had it the gift of speech, many a tale of romance [Parrish's Table Appears in the Foreground of This Picture.] and adventure. Around its capacious top on more than one occasion there gathered the sachems of the Six Nations, assembled to receive the agreed annuities, and there smoked the pipe of peace with the doughty captain, partook of his venison, or not unlikely imbibed from the "big kettle" of rum, whose presence was considered in those days necessary to the successful issue of every social entertainment or solemn conclave in which the susceptible sons of the forest participated. The story of Jasper Parrish has never been fully told and never will be until a writer, gifted with imaginative power, has filled out the skeleton of known facts, regarding his life with the flesh of tradition and clothed with romance. He left a personal record written in his old age but it is a bare statement of facts and to an unimaginative reader would yield small interest. But to a boy, who needs no aid of picturesque language to realize what six years of captivity among the Indians must have contained of hard [Captain Jasper Parrish. Spent Six Years in Captivity among the Indians.] experience and stirring adventure, the simple narrative unfolds a tale of absorbing interest. Jasper Parrish the manuscript relates, was at work in the field with his father about six mils from their home, at the headwaters of the Delaware river in this State, when surprised and captured by a small party of Monsee Indians. This was on the 5th of July, 1778, when Jasper was eleven years old. Father and son were taken by their captors up the Delaware river to an Indian settlement, called Cookhouse. Ten days later the father was separated from his son, taken to Fort Niagara, and there surrendered to the British. Two years afterwards he was exchanged as a prisoner of war and he then returned to his family. Captain Mounsh took the boy Jasper to his family and left him with them while he was absent for extended periods. Jasper was kindly treated and relates that at one time, when very ill with dysentery, he was urged by his custodians to try certain Indian remedies. At first he refused, fearing poison, but then took the herb syrup offered and was at once relieved. They threatened, however, to take his scalp bye and bye, and so he was kept in a state of apprehension. On October 1, Jasper set out with his master for Chemung. Upon arriving there he was surrounded by Indians, greeted with the scalp halloo, "qua-qua!", torn from his horse and beaten until his body was covered with bruises. Then his master interfered, crying Ït is enough!"A few days later, Jasper was sold to a Delaware Indian family for $20, and taken to the south side of the Tioga river. His old master was killed a few days later in a drunken brawl at Fort Niagara. Young Parrish remained on the Tioga river during the winter and spring of 1779, suffering much from cold and hunger. His food consisted of venison, wolf, dog, fox and muskrat meat, and occasionally a wild bird with a 'little corn.' The fact that there was no salt for the food occasioned him much discomfort. He was compelled to follow the example of the Indian boys and jump through a hole in the river ice into the frigid water. This, he was told, would harden him. He had to do it repeatedly and in the coldest weather. At one time during a hunting expedition, his Indian companions ran out of lead from which to make bullets but to his surprise, after a short absence from camp, they came back with a quantity of ore, from which by a crude smelting process they secured some twelve pounds of good lead. He seldom heard an English word spoken but learned to speak the Indian language with facility. Jasper was at this place on the Tioga river when General Sullivan's army marched through the Iroquois country and was with the squaws and young Indians when the …… treated after the battle of Newton, and met them at Painted Post. Parrish afterward proceeded with the Indian party, by way of Bath and Geneseo to Fort Niagara, then the British post. Mr. Parrish records that at one time the Indians gathered at the Fort engaged in a drunken frolic that resulted in the death of five of them, and more would have been killed if the chiefs had not interfered. The boy learned here that the British were offering a guinea bounty for every Yankee scalp brought in, and he adds that he was afterwards informed that the main purpose of this offer was to induce the Indians to disperse as they were becoming troublesome. As he was resting near a campfire one night with a couple of the Indians, he overhead them form a plan for taking his scalp and selling it to get money with which to buy rum. Thus warned, he watched his companions and when he saw one of them take a half burned stick from the fire and hurl it at his head, he was able to avoid a deadly blow by a quick jump, and escaped into the neighboring bushes. He remained outside until morning, when the Indians had sobered up and he could safely return. His master offered to sell Jasper to the white people at the Fort, but none would buy. Finally a fine looking Mohawk, named Captain David Hill, bought him for $20. Hill lived near the fort, and, becoming a member of his family, Jasper was compelled to learn the Mohawk language, which was entirely different from the Delaware. The change of masters proved fortunate, however, and he lived with Captain Hill's family for more than five years, being provided in the meantime with all the necessary clothing and with abundance of food. He passed his time in hunting, fishing and working, but says he was never compelled to do work beyond his strength. In November, 1780, the chiefs of the Six Nations held a council at Fort Niagara and Captain Hill took his prisoner into the midst of the gathering and formally adopted him into his family as his son. A large belt of wampum was placed about his neck and other ceremonies observed. Jasper moved with his Indian father, the following May, to the site now occupied by Lewiston and there he continued to dwell with the family until the close of the Revolutionary War. He traveled with Captain Hill in the meantime among other tribes, and testifies that he was invariably treated kindly and granted many favors. In September, 1784, at a treaty of peace between the United States and the Six Nations, made at Fort Stanwix (now Rome, N. Y.), the Indians promised to release all their white captives. There were ninety-three of these, young Parrish among them, and in November of the same year he was taken to Fort Stanwix and given his liberty. He immediately sought out his family, whom he found living at Goshen, Orange county. Mr. Parrish says that upon thus returning to civilization he found that he could hardly make his friends understand him, he spoke such broken English. He was thereafter able to spend only nine months in school and with that exception was entirely self-taught for his intercourse with the world. In November, 1790, Mr. Parrish was requested by Colonel Timothy Pickering, United States Government Commissioner, to act as interpreter at a council to be held with the Indians at Tioga Point. Later, in July, 1791, he acted in the same capacity at a council at Newton Point, near Elmira. Earning commendation for the faithful and accurate manner in which he rendered the Indian language into English, he was appointed in April, 1792, as standing interpreter for the Six Nations and instructed to reside at Canandaigua, under the direction of General Israel Chapin, the Government agent. He acted as the chief interpreter at the great Pickering council at Canandaigua in 1794. In 1803, after serving as interpreter for thirteen years, Mr. Parrish was made sub-agent also, and he continued to hold both offices through successive administrations, until President Jackson's second term. Mr. Parrish in his work with the Indians, we are told, endeavored to inculcate habits of industry and to instruct them in agricultural pursuits and the use of property. He states that these endeavors found a friendly disposition among the Indians, except on the part of Red Jacket, the famous Seneca orator, and that they welcomed the coming of missionaries and school masters. Under his instruction and with supplies furnished by the Government, they were enabled to raise a surplus of grain and live in comparative comfort. But Red Jacket continued to oppose all innovations, declaring that they were created Indians and they should remain Indians. He never would relinquish the Pagan habits and customs. Captain Parrish, an excellent painting of whom hangs in the gallery of pioneers in the Court House in Canandaigua, died in this town in 1836, and his remains were interred in the pioneer cemetery here, where a headstone, still standing, marks his grave. C. F. M.Transcript, Saturday, November 21, 1931 A Famous Salemite Goes to the Block Colonel Timothy Pickering (1745-1829) - By Gilbert Stuart Timothy Pickering was a son of Timothy and Mary Wingate Pickering of Salem, Mass. He was graduated from Harvard in 1763 and was admitted to the bar in 1768. In 1776 he married Rebecca White. In 1777 he joined Washington's army at Morristown, N. J. The Commander-in-Chief soon appointed him adjutant general. In 1780 he succeeded General Green as quartermaster general, which office he resigned in 1785. He settled in Philadelphia for a time, but returned to Massachusetts in 1801, and became a United States senator and a member of Congress. He died in Salem, Mass. His "life" was written by his son, Octavius Pickering, completed after the latter's death in 1868, by Charles W. Upham, and published in four volumes in Boston, 1867-73. Stuart's portrait of Colonel Pickering is included in a collection of fourteenth to nineteenth century paintings from The Ehrich Galleries to be dispersed at auction at the American Art Association Anderson Galleries (New York city) this evening.Friday, February ?th, 1803. Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting. Whereas a treaty was held on the 30th day of June under the authority of the United States with the Seneca nation of Indians, at Buffaloe creek in the county of Ontario and state of N. York, and at the said treaty in the presence of and with the approbation of John Taylor, Esqr. a commissioner of the United States, appointed to hold the same, an Indenture or agreement was entered into between the said nation of Indians & Wilhem Willink and others hereinafter mentioned, which indenture or agreement is in the words following: This Indenture made the 30th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two: Between the Sachems, chiefs and warriors of the Seneca Nation of Indians of the first part, and Wilhem Willink, Peter Van Eeghen, Hendrick Vedenhoven, W. Willink the younger (son of Jan) Jan Gabriel Van Staphorst, Roelof Van Staphorst, the younger, Cornelius Vollenhaven an Hendrick Seye, all of the city of Amsterdam and Republic of Batavia, by Joseph Ellicott, Esuire, their agent and Attorney of the second part. Whereas, at a treaty held under the authority of the United States with the said Seneca nation of Indians, at Buffaloe creek in the county of Ontario and state of New-York, on the day of the date of these presents by the honorable John Taylor, Esquire, a commissioner appointed by the President of the United States to hold the same in pursuance of the constitution, and of the act of Congress of the United States in such case made and provided, a convention was entered into in the preference and with the approbation of the said commissioner between the said Seneca nation of Indians and the said Wilhem Willink, Peter Van Eeghen, Hendrick Vollenhoven, W. Willink the younger, I Willink the younger (son of Jan) Jan Gabriel Vanstaphorst, Roelof Van Staphorst the younger, Cornelius Vollenhoven and Hendrick Seye, by the said Joseph Elicott their agent and attorney, lawfully constituted and appointed for that purpose. Now this Indenture Witnesseth, That the said parties of the first part for and in consideration of the lands hereinafter described do hereby exchange, cede, and forever quit claim to the said parties of the second part, their heirs and assigns, All those lands situate, lying and being in the county of Ontario and state of New-York, being part of the lands described and reserved by the said parties of the first part in a treaty or convention held by the honorable Jeremiah Wadsworth, Esquire, under the authority of the United States on the Genesee river the 15th day of September, 1797, in the words following, viz. Beginning at the mouth of the eighteen mile or Kogh-quaw-qu creek, thence a line or lines to be drawn parallel to lake Erie, at the distance of one mile from the lake, to the mouth of Cataraugos creek, thence a line or lines extending twelve miles up the north side of said creek at the distance of one mile therefrom, thence a direct line to the said creek, thence down the said creek to lake Erie, thence along the lake to the first mentioned creek, and thence to the place of beginning. Also one other piece at Cataraugos, beginning at the shore of lake Erie on the forth side of Cataraugos creek, at the distance of one mile from the mouth thereof, thence running one mile from the lake, thence on a line parallel thereto to a point within one mile frm the Con-non-dan-we-gea creek, thence up the said creek one mile on a line parallel thereto, thence on a direct line to the said creek, thence down the same to lake Erie, thence along the lake to the place of beginning; reference being thereunto had willfully appear. Together with all and singular the rights, privileges, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in any wife appertaining. And all the estate, right, title and interest whatsoever of them, the said parties of the first part, and their nation of, in and to the said tracts of land above described, to have and to hold all and singular the said granted premises, with the appurtenances, to the said parties of the second part, their heirs and assigns, to their only proper use, benefit and behoof forever. And in consideration of the said lands described and ceded as aforesaid, the said parties of the second part, by Joseph Ellicott their agent and attorney as aforesaid, do hereby exchange, cede, release and quit claim to the said parties of the first part and their nation (the said parties of the second part reserving to themselves the right of pre-emption), all that certain tract or parcel of land situate as aforesaid. Beginning at a post marked No. ), standing on the bank of lake Erie at the mouth of Cataraugos creek, and on the north bank thereof, thence along the shore of said lake N. 11 E. 21 chains, east thirteen degrees east 45 chains, N. 19 E. 14 chains 65 links to a post, thence east 119 chains to a post, thence south 14 chains 27 links to a post, thence east 640 chains to a post standing in the meridian between the 8th and 9th ranges, thence along said meridian fourth 617 chains 75 links to a post standing on the south bank of Cataraugos creek, thence West 150 chains to a post, thence north 290 chains 25 links to a post, thence west 482 chains 31 links to a post, thence north 219 chains 50 links to a post standing on the north bank of Cataraugos creek, thence down the same and along the several meanders thereof to the place of beginning. To hold the said parties of the first part in the same manner and by the same tenure as the lands reserved by the said parties of the first part in and by the said treaty or convention entered into on Genesee river the 15th day of September, 1797, as aforesaid, were intended to be hed. In testimony whereof the parties to these presents have hereunto, & to two other indentures of the same tenor & date, one to remain with the United States, one to remain with the said parties of the first part, and one other to remain with the said parties of the second part, interchangeably set their hands and seals the day and year first above written. Con-nea-ti-a, his mark, x Koe-en-twah-ka, or Cornplanter, his mark, x Wou-dou, gooh-ka, his mark, x Te-kon-nou-du, his mark, x Sa-gee-yes, his mark, x Jaw-ye-car-na, or Blue Sky, his mark, x Koying-quau-tah, or Young King, his mark, x Ka-oun-doo-wand, or Pollard, his mark, x Con-na-wau-de-an, his mark, x Soo-noo-you, his mark, x Au-wen-?-sa, his mark, x Soo-geo-ya-wan-law, or Red Jacket, his mark, x Cosh-kau-tough, his mark, x Te-yo-kai-hos-sa, his mark, x Ona-ya-wos, or Farmers Brother, his mark, x So-nau-goi-es, his mark, x Gish-ka-ka, or Little Billy, his mark, x Sux-sa-bo-wau, his mark, x Wilhelm Willink, Pieter Van Eeghen, Hendrick Vollenhoven, W. Willink, the younger, I. Willink the younger (son of Jan) Jan Gabriel Van Staphorst, Roelof Van Staphorst, the younger, Cornelius Vollenhoven, and Hendrick Seye, by their Attorney. (L. S.) Joseph Ellicott. In testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed, and signed the same with my hand. Done at the City of Washington, the (L. S.) twelfth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three, and in the twenty seventh year of the Indiependence of the said United States. TH: Jefferson. By the President, James Maddison, Secretary of State. IRON WORKS. The subscriber would rent a set o works, situated within twenty miles of the boatable waters of James River; consisting of Furnace, Forge, Mill, Saw-mill, and every necessary appendage, all new and finished in the completest manner of any in America; having abundance of water, wood, and ore of the best quality, and lying in a healthy country where provisions also are abundant and cheap. Fifteen or twenty able negroes may be rented with the works, if specially applied for. Ferdinando Fairfax. Shanr. Hill, near Charleston, Virginia. N. B. Applications by letter must be postpaid. January 28. 1aw6w
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Creator: Spring, William
Date: 1809-08-24
Text: Bath 24th August 1809 Dear Sir, There is Elven Indians in this Neighborhood that has been much alarmed by Being shot at the other evening by some hunters (as we suppose) and have lost their horses which they cant find since the Circumstance happened -there is several Hunters living in the neighborhood of Mud Creek where this thing happened who have allwaise been opposed to the Indians hunting on their ground, but the Inhabitants here ant able to prove anything against them - the people in the...
Show moreBath 24th August 1809 Dear Sir, There is Elven Indians in this Neighborhood that has been much alarmed by Being shot at the other evening by some hunters (as we suppose) and have lost their horses which they cant find since the Circumstance happened -there is several Hunters living in the neighborhood of Mud Creek where this thing happened who have allwaise been opposed to the Indians hunting on their ground, but the Inhabitants here ant able to prove anything against them - the people in the village wishes them to hunt and are willing to help them in finding their horses - the Bearer cant Satisfyed without coming to see you and wished some person to write a line of course was willing to Satisfy them and will do anything to help them to find out who has troubled them- I am with esteem &c William Spring Capt ParishWilliam Spring letter Augt. 24, 1809Captain Parish Canandaigua
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Date: n.d.
Text: The Role of the Ontario Troop Seymore Boughton Sergent Asa Ransom Gideon Pitts Frederick Rifford Daneile Gates Serg, John Sutherland Stephen Bates Corporal Samuel Pitts Clark Beck Corp Joseph Wait Daniel Wilder Corp Nathaniel Clark Samuel Warner Corp Joseph Wilder Nathan Walden Farris Sylvanus Conant Timothy Hopkinds Sadler Mathew Mannin William Antis Tsaack[?] Deane Grange Stone Samuel Adams Elijah Warner Joseph Adams Rufus East Abner Adams Seth Halcom J[?] Morehouse John Keyes Phenches...
Show moreThe Role of the Ontario Troop Seymore Boughton Sergent Asa Ransom Gideon Pitts Frederick Rifford Daneile Gates Serg, John Sutherland Stephen Bates Corporal Samuel Pitts Clark Beck Corp Joseph Wait Daniel Wilder Corp Nathaniel Clark Samuel Warner Corp Joseph Wilder Nathan Walden Farris Sylvanus Conant Timothy Hopkinds Sadler Mathew Mannin William Antis Tsaack[?] Deane Grange Stone Samuel Adams Elijah Warner Joseph Adams Rufus East Abner Adams Seth Halcom J[?] Morehouse John Keyes Phenches Taylor Jun Benjamin Gaus Ava Smith Jaffer Marvin Dyen Naft Julius Cantifs Jabiz[?] John Warren Timothy Younglove David Warner Benjamin Carson John Sutherland Abner Adams Stephen Taylor Levi Highley Samuel Heyden Ontario Troop
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Creator: Webster, Ephraim
Date: n.d.
Text: Edm. A Trowbridge Indian Inspector Ephraim Webster Interpreter

Creator: Parish, Jasper, 1767-1836
Date: 1828-01-03
Text: Agency of the U.S. to the Six Nations of Indians - Canandaigua 3d January 1828. To The Chiefs and Warriors of the St. Regis Indians Brothers, I have received from your Father the President of the United States, complaint against you for disorderly conduct toward your neighbors, in committing depredations and violence over the boundary line, on British subjects. - Brothers, ill health prevents me from visiting you in person. The bearer of this letter is my son. - He will communicate to you the...
Show moreAgency of the U.S. to the Six Nations of Indians - Canandaigua 3d January 1828. To The Chiefs and Warriors of the St. Regis Indians Brothers, I have received from your Father the President of the United States, complaint against you for disorderly conduct toward your neighbors, in committing depredations and violence over the boundary line, on British subjects. - Brothers, ill health prevents me from visiting you in person. The bearer of this letter is my son. - He will communicate to you the wish of your father the President. - You will please attend to his communication, and acquaint him with all the facts and circumstances in relation to the difficulties that exist between you and your neighbor. - Your friend and brother. - Jasper Parrish Sub AgentCopy of a letter to the St. Regis Indians Jany. 3, 1828
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Creator: Frisbee, John H.
Date: 1805-12-07
Text: Capt. Jasper Parrish First included is another number of the Farmer which I wish you to hand to M. Gould and Bernier for publication and at the same time the included $15- One is good as to intent them if possible in our course, which in this instance may truly be paid to the course of the people. If they should see any single errors in the piece I shall not be displeased to have them corrected- you know one may inform them that I am always crowded with … can find but little time to write...
Show moreCapt. Jasper Parrish First included is another number of the Farmer which I wish you to hand to M. Gould and Bernier for publication and at the same time the included $15- One is good as to intent them if possible in our course, which in this instance may truly be paid to the course of the people. If they should see any single errors in the piece I shall not be displeased to have them corrected- you know one may inform them that I am always crowded with … can find but little time to write even to my friends- and none to write & correct a piece for public inspection. But I rely more upon the facts which I have stated. Than correct or ….. I am with … John H. Frisbee … 7th December 1805 … to Infirm Mf. B.. that Jacob Pheldon wishes to take the Territory. To be went to the Post Office Ancilles Lauri Mammo + Jas. Wiscon to the left with mine at the Skaneateles P. Office. James Godden to the left at the Post office Onondag. Mfs. Walton Utica I have forgotten their given names. we wish them remembered to you as I am away. J.H. Frisbee
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Creator: Harris, T. S.
Date: 1829-07-06
Text: Buffalo. July 6, 1829 To Capt. J. Parrish, Canandaigua - Dear Sir: I have but just heard from the Indians that you are expected to attend council with them in the course of a few days - I have barely time to remark, that the Indians requested me some little time since, to inform you that the meeting-house frame has been reared and that it is to be completely finished in the course of a month. For various reasons I have deferred making the statement they requested, one of which was, that I had...
Show moreBuffalo. July 6, 1829 To Capt. J. Parrish, Canandaigua - Dear Sir: I have but just heard from the Indians that you are expected to attend council with them in the course of a few days - I have barely time to remark, that the Indians requested me some little time since, to inform you that the meeting-house frame has been reared and that it is to be completely finished in the course of a month. For various reasons I have deferred making the statement they requested, one of which was, that I had hoped soon to be in Canandaigua, and to deliver the message in person. At the completion of the House they are obliged by the contract to pay the builder in cash (or rather between this and that time) 600 dollars. If it shall be in your power Sir, in any wise to assist us in making this payment; we shall consider ourselves greatly obliged - I desire that the payments may be punctual, but you know what Indians are. I have besides this been obliged, in order to have the building properly finished, to become personally responsible for about 90 Dollars - I shall hope to see you after your arrival, Sir, Respectfully Yours T. S. HarrisJasper Parrish Esar. Canandaigua- N. Y. -T. S. Harris letter July 6, 1830
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Creator: Parrish, John
Date: 1796-04-07
Text: Esteemed Friend Jasper Parrish Philadelphia 4 Mo. 7. 1796 As the Subject relative to our Indian Brethren becomes more & more serious and a way appears to be now open as there is a general Peace taken place - the Committee of our yarley meeting has thought it expedient to imploy Jacob Taylor a member of our Society for the sake of expediting the business to go to Canadoqua, expecting by the time he gits there thou may be returned from the Indian Country with there answer that we might be...
Show moreEsteemed Friend Jasper Parrish Philadelphia 4 Mo. 7. 1796 As the Subject relative to our Indian Brethren becomes more & more serious and a way appears to be now open as there is a general Peace taken place - the Committee of our yarley meeting has thought it expedient to imploy Jacob Taylor a member of our Society for the sake of expediting the business to go to Canadoqua, expecting by the time he gits there thou may be returned from the Indian Country with there answer that we might be batter qualified how to move forward in this important business in the Erley part of the Season; if it should not suit thee to come to Philadelphia on account of any publick business or on thy on occasions, I should be glad thou will not only give J. Taylor all the Information thou art capable of but it would be pleasing to me to receive a letter from thee with any information or intelligence that may occur be it ever so simple; it looks likely if the answer we receive from the Indians affords encouragement some of our friends may find their minds ingarged prety soon to pay them a visit and to see in what way to move forward to be the most usefull to them to promote agriculture &c - and also that some quallifyd persons, may remain at least for awhile to put a hand to help forward this great and good work, the Beaver, who is a young man well approved is likely to be one to make a beginning in the business if way should open for the purpose, thy friendly notes toward him and recommending him to sutable lodging, will be acknowledged as done to thy real friend John Parrish For Jasper Parrish CannadoquaJohn Parrish letter April 7, 1796
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Date: 1859-1860
Text: Autographs written for Miss C. townsend by William Smith O'Brien 129 Fifth Avenue New York May 27, 1859For Miss C. Townsend with M. Browne's compliment. Washington Oct. 30. 1860

Date: 1802-09-27
Text: This may certify that for the consideration of love and good will to Little Beard (so called), I agree to give him as a present, Twenty Dollars pr. year, to be paid Annually to the said Little Beard, at the Town of Lewiston, in produce and clothing as he may want, during his natural life, for dated at Canandaigua this 27th day of September 1802 - Oliver Phelps

Creator: [Dudley Saltonstall]
Date: n.d.
Text: Dudley Saltonstall

Date: 1797
Text: Know all men by these presents that we the Chief Warriors and Chief Sachems of the Seneca Nation, for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar, to us in hand paid by Mary Jimeson the receipt whereof we do hereby acknowledge and are fully satisfied and contented, and paid, having given granted bargained, Aliened, released conveyed and confirmed into her the said Mary Jimeson her Heirs and assigns forever one certain parcel or Tract of Land being and lying on the Genesee River beginning at...
Show moreKnow all men by these presents that we the Chief Warriors and Chief Sachems of the Seneca Nation, for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar, to us in hand paid by Mary Jimeson the receipt whereof we do hereby acknowledge and are fully satisfied and contented, and paid, having given granted bargained, Aliened, released conveyed and confirmed into her the said Mary Jimeson her Heirs and assigns forever one certain parcel or Tract of Land being and lying on the Genesee River beginning at the Mouth of the Steep Hill Creek and running a due East line till it strike the old path, thence South till a West line will intersect with certain steep Rocks on the West side of Genesee River, then extending due West, due South and due East till it strikes the first mentioned Bounds, inclosing as much land upon the West Side of the River as it does upon the East side of the River. - - - To have and to hold the above granted and Bargained premises with all the appurtenances and privileges thereunto belonging to her the said Mary Jimeson her Heirs and assigns forever, and furthermore we the said Chief Sachems and Warriors for ourselves our heirs, executors and Administrators, do by these presents warrant, engage and promise to defend the above granted Premises with all the appurtenances unto her the said Mary Jimeson her heirs and assigns forever, will warrant and Defend the above granted. Premises against all claims and Demands of all persons whatsoever- In confirmation whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety seven Farmers Brother Little Billy Pollard hannan Shawen Raggea neghgue Tommy Jimmison Corn Planter Kowana See Signed sealed & Delivered in presence of - Horatio Jones. Wm. Johnston. c. Winney. Chs. Williamson Thomas MorrisBe it remembered that on the thirtieth day of October in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight, personally appeared before me Moses Atwater one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Ontario, Thomas Morris, who being duly sworn declared he saw the Grantors of the within instrument affix their signatures to the same as execution thereof - And that he the deponent with Charles Williamson in the presence of each other subscribed their names as witnesses to the same - I being personally acquainted with Thomas Morris and upon inspection of the said instrument, finding no material erasures or interlinations do allow the same to be recorded - - - - - Moses Atwater Clerks Office, County of Ontario Registered in the Fifth Book of the Records of Deeds for the County of Ontario Page 355 &c this Thirtieth day of October A. D. 1798 - Peter B. Porter, ClerkMary Jimeson copy of Decl. of Conveyance 1797
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Date: 1821-05-28
Text: $100 Recd of Le Roy Bayard and Mr. Evers & Thomas Morris per the hands of Jasper Parrish Sub Agent to the Six Nations of Indians one hundred Dollars it being in full for an Annuity due me by an agreement made with Robert Morris at Big Tree in September 1797 up to September 1820 - Signed Duplicate Receipts Dated Buffalo May 28th. 1821 In presence of H. Cunningham E. P. Parrish Young KingYoung King's Rect. $100 1821$6000 We the Sachems Chiefs and Warriors of the Seneca Nation do...
Show more$100 Recd of Le Roy Bayard and Mr. Evers & Thomas Morris per the hands of Jasper Parrish Sub Agent to the Six Nations of Indians one hundred Dollars it being in full for an Annuity due me by an agreement made with Robert Morris at Big Tree in September 1797 up to September 1820 - Signed Duplicate Receipts Dated Buffalo May 28th. 1821 In presence of H. Cunningham E. P. Parrish Young KingYoung King's Rect. $100 1821$6000 We the Sachems Chiefs and Warriors of the Seneca Nation do acknowledge to have receive from the United States per the hands of Jasper Parrish Sub-Agent of the U. S. to the Six Nations of Indians Six thousand Dollars in full for the interest due on the Stock held in trust by the President of the United States for the use of the said Seneca Nation of Indians Buffalo May 28th 1821 Signed Duplicates Young King Red Jacket Corn Planter Little Billy Black Snake Captain Pollard Captain Shongo Captain Strong Little Beard Chief Warrior In presence of H. Cunningham Jones Jno Lay JR H. PrattExpedient - Signed - Cannandagua Apr. 8th 1799- Moles Hawley Emos Hawley Daniel Steele Joel Junks Harvey Steck Henry Hawley …Hawley Thad Remington Jonas Hastings Holland Godding Hugh Jameson John Cooley
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Creator: Kerr, William J.
Date: 1818-05-28
Text: Niagara May 28h 1818 Dear Sir, I wrote you last winter by two Mohawk boys the Grand Children of Capt. Duncan who were then on their way to see him. - Their Parents are anxious to hear how they got on after they left this, and any other information you can give them -. Excuse the liberty I have taken - and oblige Dr Sir Your Most ob. Ser. --- William J. Kerr Mr. Jasper Parrish Canandaigua State of N. York

Creator: [Oliver]
Date: n.d.
Text: Oliver Furwell[?]

Creator: Fellows, Joseph
Date: n.d.
Text: Any other information on this subject will be thankfully received. With great respect, I am dear Sir, Your hbl serv Joseph Fellows Cap. ParrishGeneseah - The pleasant valley Schenectady - The place beyond the pine plain - What are the meanings of the following words - Tornewanta - Niagara - Connoga - Ononoaga - Oneida -

Creator: Graham, George
Date: 1817-03-19
Text: Department of War. March 19th. 1817. Sir, The money which you have received from the Cashier of the "Branch Bank of the United States at Washington, on of the amount of the interest due to the Seneca nation on the Stock held by the President, in trust for them, amounting to five thousand and forty eight dollars, you will pay to the Chiefs of that nation, and you will also present to the Chiefs for the benefit of that nation the further sum of nine hundred and fifty two dollars and out of...
Show moreDepartment of War. March 19th. 1817. Sir, The money which you have received from the Cashier of the "Branch Bank of the United States at Washington, on of the amount of the interest due to the Seneca nation on the Stock held by the President, in trust for them, amounting to five thousand and forty eight dollars, you will pay to the Chiefs of that nation, and you will also present to the Chiefs for the benefit of that nation the further sum of nine hundred and fifty two dollars and out of the money which you have received on account of the Indian Department - you will also pay to Little Billy fifty dollars on account of his annuity for the year 1817 the balance of the money placed in your hands on the account of the Indian Department amounting to nineteen hundred and and ninety eight dollars, will be applied by you in such manner as you may think best, in procuring provisions and othersupplies for the six nations of Indians who have suffered in consequence of the destruction of their crops of corn by the frost. The amount received by you on account of Annuities for the year 181«T(*4500) will be applied exclusively to that object two thousand dollars to be distributed in cash agreeably to the request of the Chiefs, and the residue in farming essentials, blacksmiths work, and other necessary supplies. I have the honor to be With respect Your Obedt Servant (Signed) Geo. Graham Acting Seoty of War Mr. Jasper Parish Asst Agent to the Six nations
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Creator: Williams, Eleazer
Date: n.d.
Text: With sentiments of Respect I am Sir yours E. Williams J. Parrish Esq. I expect to accompany the Deputies to G. Bay -am happy to say that the first Christian party of this Nation, are determined to fulfill their engagements by paying the sum of 400 Dollars. But not having the sum on hand & fearing lest they be hindered, they wish me to ask, whether, you are willing to negotiate for them, either at Buffalo or Batavia, as the Blankets (and other

Creator: Hallett, Jacob M.
Date: 1805-12-29
Text: Geneva Deb. 29, 1805 Mr. Jasper Parrish Dear Sir: I herewith enclose an account of my expenditures at our Salt Spring, Mr. Grangers proposition and yours amounting to the sum of Thirty seven dollars 47.5/100 for which sum I have taken the liberty of drawing on you in favor of Mr. Joseph Colt of Palmyra. I think it important that Mr. Horton yourself and me should have an interview previous to your departure for the City of Washington, to determine what measures will be most expedient for our...
Show moreGeneva Deb. 29, 1805 Mr. Jasper Parrish Dear Sir: I herewith enclose an account of my expenditures at our Salt Spring, Mr. Grangers proposition and yours amounting to the sum of Thirty seven dollars 47.5/100 for which sum I have taken the liberty of drawing on you in favor of Mr. Joseph Colt of Palmyra. I think it important that Mr. Horton yourself and me should have an interview previous to your departure for the City of Washington, to determine what measures will be most expedient for our operations in the Spring. It will be necessary that provisions &ca. should be procured without delay, that they may be sent as near as may be by Sleighing. - There is a man here who is by profession a digger and blaster of rocks - he will undertake our business either by the job or day - In expectation of hearing from on the subject I am truly yours Jacob M. HallettMr. Jasper Parrish CanandaiguaJacob M. Hallett Dec. 29, 1805
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Creator: Morris, Thomas
Date: 1800-11-12
Text: Albany 12 November 1800 My dear Sir Finding the Council of Appointment in [Suffern] when I came down, I made known to them Capt Johnston resignation in conveyance of which you appointed to the command of the Troop in our Country. Yates is your first L! The other officers are not appointed I was not acquainted with their active presentation and besides I preferred receiving from you such recommendations as you deem best to make. If you will to this when they registration next must they will be...
Show moreAlbany 12 November 1800 My dear Sir Finding the Council of Appointment in [Suffern] when I came down, I made known to them Capt Johnston resignation in conveyance of which you appointed to the command of the Troop in our Country. Yates is your first L! The other officers are not appointed I was not acquainted with their active presentation and besides I preferred receiving from you such recommendations as you deem best to make. If you will to this when they registration next must they will be attended to. Capt Boughton is appointed to the Command of a separate Troop. You will oblige one by giving him this information, That have not have to write to him as I am just setting out for New York Sincerely your friend, Thomas Morris
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Creator: Fairbanks, Dorothy May
Date: 1940
Text: Timothy Pickering must hare been satisfied with the services of Jasper Parrish as an interpreter, for he recommended him to the Secretary of War for the appoint tent as interpreter to the Filre Iations* The reference to Mr« Parrish, a friend in. Philadelphia, is probably to Mr« John Parrish, a prominent Quaker in that city who was active in Quaker-Indian affairs,1 la is the writer of a letter later in this series*.(see CV)« 1* Some Account of the Religious Society of Friends towards the...
Show moreTimothy Pickering must hare been satisfied with the services of Jasper Parrish as an interpreter, for he recommended him to the Secretary of War for the appoint tent as interpreter to the Filre Iations* The reference to Mr« Parrish, a friend in. Philadelphia, is probably to Mr« John Parrish, a prominent Quaker in that city who was active in Quaker-Indian affairs,1 la is the writer of a letter later in this series*.(see CV)« 1* Some Account of the Religious Society of Friends towards the Indian TFIBelTT^ .....by1 the SbfflTglgg^ Sufferings, London* 1844* pp* 102-15* ■ 61.Pickering notifies Parrish of his appointment as interpreter, 1792# Philadelphia April 29, 1792, Sir, 1 received your letter of the 28th of March, & was pleased with your improvement in writing* 1 have recommended you to the Secretary of :far, and he will give you an appointment as a standing interpreter to th© Five Bations* As soon as you receive this letter, co^ae to Philadelphia, and go to the war office for your appointment M instruction®* If 1 am not hare, call on your friend Mr* Parrish to introduce yon• Jm friend (Signed) T* Pickering Mr* Jasper Parrish In October 1792,the newly appointed irxi- -pr t the Irory^'is reported his recent activities to Timothy Pickerings The following letter has many obvious grammatical faults^but it muat be remembered that Jaaper Parrish almost forgot English is the time h*r li¥ed among the Imd ianaj and had less than a rear of for nal education afterwards« fhe council at Buffalo Greek to which Farrieh referred took place in Jnmejl792. General Chap in mentioned' in a letter to Knox that he was not permitted to leave until its conelu$iontand continued! *Th@ chiefs that went to Congress are our sealous friends! they particularly explained to the nations^ who convened (at Buffalo Cr&ekj for the purpose* the speeches they had made md received while absent! the reception and treatment they reoeived at Philadelphia! « « . .they met-with universal approbation*11 ^ Fifty chiefs had gose'to Philadelphia in larch 1?920 as suggested by Pickering at the Painted Postjto consider civilisation efforts* Secretary Knox employed the Reverend Samuel Eirkland* a Quaker, to 2 invite the chiefs and accompany them to Philadelphia® The meeting was planned also to cement the friendship of the Indians at a time when the United States was having many difficulties with the Western Indians* Major General St. Clair had recently been defeated,and this made the Indians very bold and confident* In addition* the government hoped to influence some of th© chiefs to go to the hostile tribes and exert their efforts for peace•3 An annual expenditure of #1500 for supplie s to the Six H at ions was approved by the Senate and announced to chiefs* Washington said on March 26, 1792, in recommending the measure to the Senate! .^erioaii State Papers, Indian Affairop, cit.# 1# 241-42# Chap in to KnoT, July 17, 1792. — 2. Ibid.f I§ 226* Knox to Kirkland* December 20* 1791. 228-29^ Knox to lew-Arrow, Cornplenter* Big-Log* and other oeneca chiefs, February 10f 1798* Expiration of Knox in letter transmitted to Washington. - "®Ab the representation now here is respectable for its characters and influence, it is of so 10 importance that chiefs should be well satisfied of the entire good faith and liberality of the United States®51 4 The objects of the meeting with the' fifty chiefs were accomplished, Knox reported* As was hoped, a group of Indians set out for the council of the hostile Indians at the Miami liver,on Lake Erie, about the middle of September, accompanied by Bed Jacket and OornplaaterThey were authorised by Pickering to assure the Indians of the ^sincere disposition of the United States to make peace with them, to explain fey a map the Indian land, and to suggest that the Western Indians gather for & treaty to make paaee**6 It is to these Indians that j Parrish was obliged to give many presents at Buffalo Creek® 4* Ibid*, I, 225, Washington to the Senate, March 28, 1792* 5* Tbid., I, 229, explanation of Knox* TbI37, 1, 232-32, Pickering to Chiefs of Five lotions, April 30, 1792 7» fRe" chiefs attended the council but obtained no favorable response# led Jacket spoke for peace, but the hostile Indians demanded the Ohio liver boundary* Stone, Red Jacket, op» clt», pp» 197**200. 11 Parrish Report to Picker ing About a Meeting of Indians at Buffalo Creek* franadarguary8 Oct. 22 1792 Bear Sir These with my humbl© respects to you and yours* I will make fTBe to inform you of lay conduct since I came into this contra I ismedlately after leaving you 1 came to this place and from this to 9 Buff aloe Creek in company with Gen® Chap in and C apt* Hendrick according to your directions and instructions© and while we ware at luffaloe Creek the Indians that went to Philadelphia calls a Counsil at that place of those Indians that sot on their seets to inform them of their pre seed ings while in Philadelphia the Indians sent for Mr* Jones to attend the Counsil fire he accordingly attended the Indians would not let Gen* Chap in nor me return untill the Counsil fire wane could we explain all the writings that they brought home to those that sot on their seets thay was very much pleased with thair preseedings and after the Counsil the Indians all apesred to be wall satisfied frindly and united w© weare obliged to give the Indians many presents on the account of their going to the westward with a message from Congress we expect them back in three weeks* I add no more but am Dear Sir your frind and humble servant (Signed) Jasper Parrish Col® Pickering* H*B* the Indians are continually around us beging for one thing and another but at the same time thay all apear to be friendly to the inhabitant® 4-5*.The first letter of this place name is difficult to read; the name looks as if it were a variation of Canaudaigua as th#r^ were mmj ways of spelling it« famandaIgua was the plsee of residence of both Shmfin md Parrish* Captain Sentriok Au^u&ut* a Stoekbridge chiefs usually called Captain Hemdriekis), is the Indian referred to by Parrish* At the Painted Post treaty It ras arranged that he should go westward with a peace message to the Indians in the Miami country* Se md his brother were convinced of the moderation and justice of the intentions of the United States toward the hostile Indians®1 amd started on Jrne 18P 1792, fro^. Buffalo Creek to attend the Western Indians1 council* Captain Bmdrick was instructed by Imox to go to temeral Chap in in the Genesee Country and *le ill accompany you to Buffalo Greek « © • and mnke arrangements for your Immediate departure®Hendriok was instructed to announce the desire of the United States for peaeetand to accompany a group of the hostile Indians to Fort Jefferson to meet General Putnam who was sent by the United States to conclude peace© Parrish later reported that lendrick had prored unfaithful and not gone to the council but delivered the message* belt* and . map to the British Indian Agent® ■teeriean State Papers, op» oit»# X, 253^ S4l# S22* Knox to Chap in May 8* 1792* Instructions tilSSdrTokg lay 8, 1792 Chap in to Knox, July 17* 1792* Inox to Washington December 6* 179Zj Stone» Red jacket, op* p* 162 » a.In 1793,the limited States appointed three commissionerss Benjamin Lincoln of Massachusetts* Beverl#y Raftdolph of Virginia, and Timothy Piokarimg of Pennsylvania, to make p@»ce with th© hostile Indians and induce them to confirm the boundaries outlined in the treaty at Fort H&raar a1 Jasper Parrish was among the interpreter a who were instructed to aecompa&y the commissions Permission was granted by Washington to the Society of Friends to Bend 51 some of their respectable members* in order to contribute their Influence to induce the hostile Indiana to. a peace** Meny of the chiefs of the Piv# Sat ions also west to make a pita for peace® Parrish was wry valuable in the work of the commission. as a person trusted- to carry and deliver messages® In late May^the commissioners seat him from Niagara^ where they were stationed,to Philadelphia and agate to July Parrish was despatched with messages to Knox and Washington* to interesting aeeowt of hie expenses shows that it cost f 12*45 to reach Philadelphia from Niagara ,by horse^cm the May trip and almost the same* #12*80, on the July trip*4" t«e»T*j> the eom&issioners sailed in the middle of July from Fort Eriet|l across the Hi agar a River from Buffalo, and arrived at the mouth of the Detroit liver ysrhere Detroit is now locate^ on July 21, 1793*S Parrish* detained by his duties, reached Fort iri® in early August* He notes to his accounts #2*54 for expenses at Port Erie on August fifth* Anerieaa ^tate Papers, Indian Affairs, op. pit*, 1, 340-4.2, e repoFt' to^'t^^Tice^presicfMlTlii^'Ms enclosure of the instruotione given to the commission on April 28, 1795* 2* Siagara is present foungsto-wn, Biag&ra Couatv, lew forks lodge, op® Git II, 68, " 3* American Stat® Papers, Indian Affairs, op * eit*, 19 548, Sol, Commissioners TSSST^^ 4* Invoice from Parrish to the consul ss loners of the Waited Stat#s for his expenses* Among Parrish Papers but mot included in this group* 5* ^.erioBM St ate Papers, Indian Affair a, I, 551, Commissioners1 aThe following permission to Parrish to go from fort Erie to the Detroit Hirer was issued on August fifth, the day that is mmtimmd te. Parrish1' s aeoorats for expenses at Fort Erie* An «$try of the eleventh-of lugust reveals that he paid fl§*50 to Captain Cowan for passage to Detroit* ■ JL ■ Permission granted to Jas Parrish, 1795. Permission is hereby gxtren to Mr* Jasper Parrish, (an Interpreter to the Commissioners of the limited States) to pass from hence to the Mouth of the Detroit liver, or to whatever place the Commissioners may be, at the time of his arrival there - diveB under my hand at Port Erie this 5* day of August 1795 (Signed) Sobert Pratt Captru it left* Commanding fo All Concerned* (AThere were gin Friends who mad© the trip to the Detroit liver about the same time that the United States commissioners did* They were John Parrish, Jacob Lindley, William Savery, John Elliott, Joseph Monro, and William Hartshorn^who were deputised by the ^Meeting for Sufferings1* of the Philadelphia Friends to attend the treaty*1 fhey spent about six weeks at Detroit,where they made known their peaceful principles to' the Indians who were on the way to the council at the rapids of the Miami River* They also held meetings in Detroit* When, the commissioners arrived, the Friends encamped with them ahd were present at several interviews with Indians* The negotiations between tho.United States commissioners at the mouth of the Detroit River and the assembled Western Indians at the Miami Rapids did not end with a peace treaty at Sandusky as hopedtbut were terminated on August 16, 1T93*2 The Indians insisted on the Ohio Elver as a boundary between their lands and those of the United State's j the oomtissioners ©ould not grant this request, as many white people had settled west of the Ohio since the boundaries were set by the treaty at Fort Eam&r* Tho address to the hostile Indians signed by forty-four of the Philadelphia Friends was sent to them.in care of the British agent. MeKee who was attending tho Hami council*® four of the Friends, on their return, visited Friends in Mew York and returned to Philadelphia while William Savory journeyed homeward via Montreal*4 Mo mention is 1* - Sever me e, Frank H*, ** Quaker $ As&ong the 8en.ec as, * Buffalo Historical Society P blioations, VI (1905), 16$j Harris, loc.slt., editor, p. 457ai Religious Society of Friends Toward the Indian Tribes, op. cit., pp. 100-06 2* -faerie»n State Papers, Indian Affairs, op. eit., I, 357, C©salsaloners' Journal. Iandu sky is ia Brie County, Ohio on Lake Brie. * u 'Society of Friends Toward the Indian Tribes, op. olt., p. 105. 4. Warner, Elliabeth W., "Indian gmbassar.es," Quaker ^ibe-r'aphies, Philadelphia, 1912, III, 120-21. --- 70.made of the sixth member® At Iiagara,on August 1793 John Parrish of the Quakers wrote to Jasper Parrish and the letter is below* As the treaty plans were ended, on August loth and the Quakers immediately departed, it is possible that they were at Ifagara by the ami of the smith* Jasper Parrish W id en tly returned from the Detroit Hirer about the same tl®% bat was detained by illness at If agar a and could not go southward Into the Indian Country with the Quakers* John Parrish was a very prominent Friend* In 1773 he visited the Belawaresfani from that time on was active in work with the Indiana* he was interested in their religious enlightenment,and he encouraged 5 them to improve their methods of land cultivation* His trip to the hostile Indians is one instance of his serviee* 5* 11 John P&rrish,n M-eyorialg Coneernlag Dee eased Friends* * * • Fens sjITan ia » * ' 'WilJmX^I^ p>T~l EG- 23j first Census * * * 1780^ * Pennsy 1 v an i * op* elt** p® 222 lists s br^h^maker^.....John Parr ish* as a resident iTlorli Third Street, Philadelphia* which may be the same one® The dates of the Quaker John Parrish were 1730-1807* uQ Letter from J ohn Parrish at Vlagara to Jasper Parrish, 1793* at Benj Will-sons 8 51 1793 Jtuoh Esteemed Friend Jasper Parrish - We weighted till this morning and hearing by the tavern keeper that thou remained in a poor way and it looked probable it would take longer time for thee to he in a nkte of helth to encounter the fete ague of riding through the wilderness and hearing Ueneral Chapin was expected to be hes.re in about 10 days which I hope by that time thy helth may be so recovered as to return 'with him which w&ll be a good 0pertunity we have therefore concluded to move forward gently with our friend John Elliott -who is poor ley in hopes if it be consistent with the Lords good pleasure to get home against our yerly meeting -I conclude thy real, friend wishing thy confidence and trust may be placed in the Lord the Great Phiscait of Value who doth all things well and wisely who suffers not a sparrow to fall to the ground without his permission and that the present dispensation may be s&nktifyed to thee so that Let thy days be few or mmiey they may be spent in the fear of thy Creator so that thy Latter end may be crowned with peace* (Signed) John Parrish except of my companions Love k 1 oat wishes and let me hear from the as soon as convenient 11Chap in was invited in J mim 1793 to aeeompaj^f the Six Mat ions to * >« y ' v " this he did* American State ^aperfi, Indian Affairs* op*. 0 it*, 54f# C^mlssionefP^WeporFT 73In ear I j l?94f na spirit of discontent* arose among the Six fr^tlnnz ^ * m council at 0 ^^n^ii^u*: was planned to *tr*nqttilise the Indians % pacific measures*1'1 There was still danger fro®, the hostile Indians, arrf the Iroquois had recently been aroused by the plans of Pennsylvania to extend settlements to fresqir Isle, the site of present Iris, Pennsylvania* the Indians claimed this was their londyvrhile Pennsylvania insisted the state had purchased it® Washington stopped, the moves of Pennsylvania* Pickering, agaift commissioner for the United States* arrived at Canandaiguft in the f all^ and the treaty with the Six Hat ions was signed on Mot ember 11, 1794* About 1800 Indians attended the council?including the Seneeas fro® Allegheny with Coraplanter as their leader and Horatio . if ones their interpreter^ and the Seneeas from Buffalo Creek under % farmer1s Brother with Jasper Parrish as their interpreter• - This was the last important treaty held by the United States with the Six ■ I at ions* The terns of the treaty confirmed the lands of the One id as, IT Onend&gas, Cayugas; established the boundaries of the Seneca land, and stated that the Indians wonld claim no additional land* It also provided for a cession by the Seneeas of the right to make a wagon 4 road from Port Sohlosser to Buffalo Creek®' Pickering stayed in the district to conclude a treaty with the Oneida,/ fuse ar or a, and Stookbridge Indians on December 2, 17 which compensated them for losses during the Bevolution* It la interesting • 1* A^erica^ State Papers, Indian Affairs, ^ op * cit*, I, 544-48, Washington to the TTenate^ Tmuary 2, WfH "" * Stone, Had' Jacket., elt«, pp* f04-35e 3* Harris, loc sit*, p* 498* a^r^tale'Tapars, Indian Affairs^ op« cit», I, 845, Pickering submits treaty with Si/Tatlonsi' Stone/facVet, op* cit*, pp® 204-5 the treaty was the re nit of a compromise "on some"points/'rEe limited States originally asked for a four mile strip instead of a wagon road® 6* After.iesaa State Papers» Indian Affairs, op» cit*, I, 54S0 treaty of lacember"!, IWir"^^ * ............. - ^ ¥ f: - If:to note that several Quakers attended the -treaty with the Six fations; n Including Willie® Savery and John Parrish* It was during the time-that Pickering was at Cenandaigua far the treaties t at he awarded an mtmitj to Little Billy, a Seneca chief who was prominent in Seneca councils* Pickering wrote Secretary of War X-nox to inform him of the annuity*. The letter written from Canandaiguajoften knom as Ga&and&quy in its early days and abbreviated as in the letter below* . ^^liliotas Society of Friends. Toward Indian fribes»_ op* 0it.„ pp* 111. 75.ML Mmmitf promised to Little Hilly, Seneca chief, in 1794 Cansnd y* I err* 15 1794 Sir • In consideration of the good character ana abilities of the Seneca War Ch'ef TishJtmaga, usually called Little Billy, and of hie Strong friendship and attachment to the United States, and depending ob the continuance of that friendship and attachment, 1 hmm promised him m. annuity of fifty dollars during his life* this my engagement on behalf of the United States, I hope will meet with your approbation® Little Billy is a steady, prudent and judicious man I and as such of great influence in his nation* Without rewarding merit, Charity would plead strongly in his favour f as he has had the misfortune to lose his sight to such a degree as to be disabled from getting his livelihood by hunting* frme Copy Signed T» Pickering Honl Henry Knox laqr * U.After pence had been made in 1795 between the whites and the hostile Indian* the Quakers became more interested in steps to promote flthe Christian improvement and gradual oifilisation of the natives*®''" f^e matter was discussed at the 1755" Yearly Meeting of Phil- delphia* A circular letter to the Indians brought & reply from the Oneida©* the TusoarorM* and tlm Stoekbridge Indians on the Oneida Reservation* that they were favorable to such steps* In the mmmr of 1796 three Friends went to settle among them^end endeavored, to encourage cultivation of the 1and » the following letter of April,1796|from John Parrish at Philadelphia to Jasper Parrish at Oanandaigna refers to the Yearly Meeting® It also mentions that the interpreter is soon expected hmk from the Indian Country with an answer from the Indians. It is possible that Jasper Parrish delivered the circular letter from the Quakers to the Indians or some suSeeqmeitt message on the same subject® This letter outlines the plane of the Friends* 1* Religi « s Seaiety of Friends To mrd. the Indian Tribes, op* oit** 77.11 John Parrish to Jasper Parrish* 1796* Concern lag Quaker Work Among the Indians® Esteemed Friend Philadelphia 4 Mo* 7* 1790 Jasper Parrish As the Subject relative to our ladIan Bretheren becomes more Js more serious sad a appears to be mow open as there is a general Peace taken place - the Committee of our yarley meeting has thought it expedient to imploy Jacob faylos^ a number of our Society for the sake of expediting the business to go S to C'a&adoqtta* expecting by the time he gits there thou mgy be returned from the Indian Country with there answer that we might be better quailifyed how to move forward in this important business ia the Erley part of the Season! if it should not suit thee to come to Philadelphia on account of any publick business or on thy on oceatioms, 1 should be glad thou will not only give J® Taylor all the Information thou art capable of but it would be pleasing to me to receive a letter from thee with any information or Inteligenee that may occur be it ever so simple| it looks likely if the answer we receive from the Indians affords iaoour&gement some of our friends may find their minds laearged prety soon to pay them a visit and to see in what way to move forwarcr to tre the most useful! to them to promote agriculture - and also that some quailifyd per sons, may remain at least for awhile to put a head to help forward this great and good work* the Beaver, who is a young mam well approved is likely to be one to make a begining in the business if way should open for the purpose* thy friendly notes toward 1%.iu him and t®®mmm4lttg him to smt&hle Lodgings 4c will be a#taowleiged as dome to thy real friend C S igmed ) John Parrish {©m side of letter) Please to five my love to thy wife, to Capt* Chapia & his eoimectiems (On b&ek of letter) For Jasper Parrish C aonad&quft f favour of | Jacob fagrlor ; 712* Jacob Taylor was later active as the friend is charge of a mission to instruct the Indians of the Cattaraugus Seservatiott* He was sent In 1806 or 180? by the Yearly Meeting of Philadelphia* His mission was located adjoining the reservation at a place known m Taylor1s Hollow* Here, about 1809, he built n saw-mill sad a grist-mill* Johnson, op* cit*, pp* 142, If8* •S* €anadoqma is probably a variation of Sanandaigus* ?0?from the time that fob rt Morris became the assignee for Samuel Ogden's some I ur million acres in V/estern Mew York^ in 1791, he hm "been pi arming to extinguish the Indian title to the lmd*"L He sold the greater part of this tract to the Holland Lena Company the next year rkmx with the provision he would purchase the Indian title and hm& the pr" land surveyed* It was 1797 before the ^eneeas could be persuaded to- ' meet for this purpose* f Thoiii'S Morris, the son and attorney of Robert Morris* moved to the Genesee Country im 1790 to watch over his fathers s interests® He was very well liked by the Indians m.& was adopted by them at the Tioga Point treaty* He persuaded the Xadiams *to hold a conferemce, and designated Big Tree, bow G#ms«o, as the place where the same should be held*11 ^ Jeremiah Wad worth was the United States commissioner and 1® Stone, led Jaoket^ QF» olt*g j»« 237* 2* Thomas Morris (1771-1849} was Tery prom in eat in the Genesee Country* When he was adopted into the Seneca Wat ion, led Jacket gave him his old name, Otetiami* this was dome am id the elaborate ceremony of 1600 Indians at Tioga Point* Morris had been, well educated including sweral years spent at Leipsic md Seneva* He attended the 1791 treaty at the Painted . Pest* After completing his law course and passing- the bar in lew York City* he went to 6sBsmdaigu& to live* He was present at the 1794 treaty, and always had the confidence of the Indians® He knew how to treat the Indians and talk with them* It was through his skillful appeal to the women of the Senec&s that the Big Tree Treaty, 1797, was completed* Morris was a cultivated gentleman mi a highly esteemed lawyer* He was one of the wealthiest residents of O&nsBd&igust and entertained elaborately; among his guests in 1797 was Louis Philippe* From 1793* to 1796 he served in the State Asaambly, then for five years In the State Senate, and the following tmo in the United States Cofifrass* He left Csnandaigua in 1894 to return to lew York City practise law* He was involved with his father in the land speculation crisis* His report of many events in the Genesee Country have contributed a great deal to a knowledge of the life there % Stone quotes of tea from his aausoripts* Stone, Red jacket, _ og«_ g^t** pp* 143-45} II ill ikes, Charles F*, "Thomas Morri^^^Schirtar Historical Society Fublimtlom Fimd Series, VII, 46-53* — 3* Seaver, op, cit*, p* 392, mote 91 by $*&* fail*. 11.a treaty was oonoulded ®m September 15, ': p i tobert Morris mi the Semeem. Hat loa, with the sanction of the United States*4 Horria purchased the Indian right to the land west of the fhelps-Sorham Purchase, with certain except loss of tracts for Indian villager md reservations! the title purchases included the land known as the M0rris Seserve, the foinr sqeare miles assigned to Mary and. Chloe Allem, and four tracts, of land belonging to the loll and Land Company*5 the treaty was concluded only after mmh persuasion by fhomes Morris of the value of an animal laeroe from the #100,000 he offered to pay them,and after Morris talked with the Se&eea. women who intervened said demanded that his offer be ,. accepted• This conference re stilted in the opening for settlement of Most of Western Hew York* J^M ■ ■ r.:Wkm Wt^e'freat/0omoll,.was held at Big free* .is. - "farmer's: Brother presented a claim for lamd for Mary Jamison* who also attended the comcil*7 She was called wfhe White Woman of the beeause this white captive spent about seventy years' of her life «aong the Se&eeas on the Genesee liver5 and her history is * inseparably eo&uee ted1* with that of the Genesee VElley*® A corrected version of the inscription on her tombstone at the Buffalo Creek Reservation, briefly reviews her tumstial lifei *In Memory of T White Woman, MARYJEMISON, Daughter of Thomas Jfmu^w % Tak* Xrwik Born en'the ocean* between Ireland and ^ijf^Jil' Sfi-' in IT43* Taken captive at Marsh Creaky Pa. te 1?SS carried dowa the Ohio, Adopted into am Indian family® In 1762 removed to fenesee Siver* Was naturalized m 181?* Removed to' this place in 4# - - yfair^ op* B ^ISSTBT ladiaast o. HSggins, ,og*cit*#. p* 15 ^ 6* Stone, Sed 3acke t, op» cit»» pp* 237-245* Seaver,~opT oit*# p# 94* 8, JMd^ p* 255• u.1831 . And having survived^ two husbands and five children, leaving three still alive; She Died Sept 19th 1833 aged about ninety years, Having a few weeks before expressed a hope of pardon through Jksu* Chkss^t, fThe counsel of the Lord that shall stand.1 1 9 She adopted Indian manners and was an active person. Almost every year she planted, hoed, and harvested the corn on the land where she lived. When Mary Jemison decided after the Revolution that she would stay in the Indian Country, her Indian brother iaenred^htr'^at .fhe-^ could have a tract of land of her own.1 Before,he :iefftor $ anaM" he spoke to some of the ehiefs about the l$nd;and-;thui Farmer* s Brother presented her claim at the Big Tree council. Red Jacket opposed her claim as he did the whole treaty, but others insisted that it be granted. Mary Jemison also pleaded her own case. She had described - to Farmer1s Brother the tract she desired, and it was granted to her. | MThe deed was made and signed, securing to me the title to all the land I had described* under, the same restrictions and regulations that other Indian lands are subject toy*1 Thomas Morris had been careful in outlining the reservations in the treaty; he made certain of the number of acres in each, but he signed this deed without knowing the definite acreage. He was under the iiapression that the land was not over 150 acres, but a later survey revealed that he had signed a deed to about 30,000 acres of very rich land. Part of the land was open f idts, end known as the Gar dow or as the Gar dow Tract or Reservation. It is here on the Genesee River that she lived until she was eighty-eight. The follow ing document is the Deed of Conveyance to Marv Jimoson?Qas spelled therein). 9. Ibid., pp. 196, 228ff, 427. In 1874 her remains were reinterred on a site overlooking the Genesee River and near her old home. 10. Ibid., pp. 92-96. 11. Stone, Red Jacket, op. cit., pp. 245-46. n.M- Original Seed of Conveyanee of property to Mary «f imo son, 1797* Know all men by these presents that we the Chief Warriors , and Chief Sachems of the Seneca I at ion, for and in consideration of the w of one dollar, to us in hand paid by Mary JImoson the receipt whereof we do hereby acknowledge and are fully satisfied and contented, and paid, have given granted bargained, Aliened, released conveyed and confirmed unto her the said Mary Jomoson her Heirs and assigns forever one certain parcel or fract of Land being and lying on the Genesee Biver beginning at the Mouth of the Steep Sill Creek and running a due last line till it strike the old path, thence South till a West line will intersect with certain steep Rooks on the West side of Genesee River, then extending sue West, due forth and due East till it strike a the first mentioned Bounds, inclosing as much Land upon the West Side of the liver as it does upon the East side of said River* to have and to hold the above granted and Bargained premises with all the apputinanees and privileges thereunto belonging to her the said Mary J imo son her Heirs and assigns forever, and furthermore we the ssid Chief Sachems and Warriors for ourselves our heirs, executors, and AdmiMstrators, do by these presents warrant, engage and promise to defend the above granted Premises with all the appurtinances unto her the said Mary JJjiioson her heirs and assigns forever, will warrant and lefend the above granted Premises against all claims and. Demands of all persons whatsoever - In confirmation whereof we have hereunto set our hands ®m& seals this in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety seven ~ HHoratio Jones Wit# Johnston-^ C* ifirmy 15 6hs* Williamson Signed sealed & Delivered in presence of ** 16 (Signed) 13 fhnmm Morris Be it remembered that on the thirtieth day of October in the year oneihoua&nd seven hundred and ninety eight* personally appeared before me Moses Atw&ter one of the Judges of the Court of Common Fleas for the County of Ontariof Thomas Morris, -who being duly sworn declared he saw the Or alitor s of the within instrument affix their signature a to the same as execution thereof - And that he the depomet with Charles Williamson in the presence of each other subscribed their masses as-witnesses to the same - I being personally acquainted with Thomas Morris and upon inspection of the said instrument* finding no material erasures or interlinations do alio* the seme to be recorded - Clerks Office, County of Ontario tegistered in the fifth Book of the Records of Deeds for the County of Ontario Page 355 &m this Thirtieth day of October A.Do IT98 - (Signed) Moses Abater17 (Signed) Peter S* Porter, Clerk" 18 12* Captain Pollard was a famous Seneon. chief - orator* After Cornplanter1 § deeth, lie wms considered the noblest of the S He was the son of a Seneca woman and an Szsglish trad«r from liagara* Pollard was a devout Christian in his later year a, leading the ' Ghrintim branch of the Seneeae, Joining the Seneca Mission Church in 1824* He was am earnest advocate of oiTiliuation* Pollard was seeond ofely to Red Jacket an an orator, and he was 11 distinguished for his be&«nroleaee and wiedosu* 8#' fought In the War of 1818, u a Captain from the Main Seneca Village at Buffalo Creek. (See Hit was formally selected by the Indians as their leader in battle* He was one of a deputation is 1815 which communicated to the Secretary of War their concern over fia&nei&l matter®* (see 3o% Sis name is among the Seneoas who petitioned President Monroe in 1818 {gee 34)G Ha signed an 1821 receipt ( see 3T and an 1826 receipt (see la 1831 he receipted his amauitT from Hobort M0rris for his part in the Big free Treaty (see Slip* Pollard whs prominent in the many councils of the Senecas and signed the treaties of 1797, 1802, 1815, 1823, and 1838* In 1838 he described as a venerable old chief *who had attended all the Councils since that held by Col* Pickering at Can&ndaigua,11 and. as a chief with manners of a gentleman of the old school who was gentle and mild in his deportment* At this time he was about eighty years old and bent with the infirmities of age* He died in 1841 and was among the chiefs reinterred with led Jacket in 1884* - ' - J, op* clt*# pp* 247-48i Howl and/Seneca Misai loo sit*, p* 1481 - , pp* 83~84f / Bear born Journal ' pp. 93, 142s entries' of 'September 14, 18S8 md September 1838*...... IS* Tommy Jitamison was probably the son of Mary Jamison^ as her oldest ■ ,*©»■ was Thomas ^tio was prominent in Seneca councils* He was murdered in 1811 by his younger half-brother, John, who tomahawked him* - Sea?er, op* oit», p* 99 md' passim* 14* William Johnston was m Inglish trader and interpreter who Hired on Buffalo 'Creek- in a half log and half frame house as early as 1798* He al to -owed a. two story log house which was used as a ... tavern, and an Indian store* Captain Johnson is considered the first settler of Buffalo* The Indians gave him two scju&re miles of land in the heart of present Buffalo,which he was later perenaded to exehange foi* other Saneo.a land-* He married a Seneca by whom he had three children*. liggina, 0£*cit*, p. 134s Larned, op* olt«, 1, 12; Tail, Robert 8*0*, tfansTator, ftfhe Genesee Country in 1798,# by Lb Comte de Colbert Maulevriiar, Rochester Historical Society Publication Fund Series* XI? (1958), l6|* 1 --*- IS* Cornelius Wiaat^or Winney) is recorded as lining in a log house on Buffalo Creek as early as 1791* He was a Hudson Si?«r Dutchman and became the first permanent white settler in irie County* le was an India© trader and sold rum, whiskey, knives, -and trinkets* mainly to the Seneeas on the nearby Buffalo Creek Reservation* Higgins, op* oit»» p* I54| Johnson, op* elt«» p* 83* 11;IS. Charles Williamson (1757-1808) was a British officer, a land promoter in Western few Tork^ and a secret agent. In 1791 he was appointed to hold in trust for three English speculators, one of -horn was Sir tilliam P#lteney, a tract of 1,200,000 acres aeculred from Robert H0rrls* He bee am© m American oitisea so he could hold this- land in his name* Williamson's emthnslam, wisdom, and judgment contributed to his promises©a® He opened the land to settlers and srnd© many improvements on it* He introduced into the Genesee Country the first good roads, good taverns, fair, race track, theatre, and newspaper. He also encouraged school, churches, and charities* Always an advocate for order and Ju?: ice, he became an adviser to sxrr settlers -/ho asked him for aid* He was a judge of several courts, and from 1794-to 1799 he served in the State Assembly as the first delegate fro - Western lew York* Williamson laid out several towns including Bath and Seneva* He was a great advertiser for the district; *ntd the 1796 Pair t ^ath, with'"the attraction of a horse race, brought people from menv sections including Southern aristocrats with their slaves. la 1802 he withdrew from the agency and returned to England wher- he was sctive in colonial and foreign affairs* Cox, Issae J*, "Charles Williamson/' Mctlonaryof Mar lean Biography XX, 297-98 f Parker, Arthur C*, fTTfamsonr" lochester Historical Society Publication Fund Series, VI (1927), 17. Moses B# Atwater was a judge in Ontario County as this deed records* In 1803 he concurred with Judge Livingston in asking p rdon far an Indian murderer (see 13 and IS). In 1812 he bought land on *he east aide of the uenesefc River above the maim falls* His name is among seven affixed to an 1614 petition of a Canandalgna Committee for aid to the Niagara and Genesee Country, which wtnso severely disrupted by the frontier plundering during that year* In 1819 he was one of the builders of a toll bridge over the Genesee River above the falls* Tutter, Chipman P», Dark Days on the Frontier of Western Sew York, Buffalo, 1879 ^pTTB^WfY^r^^ Edward W71 editor, ^nnais of Rochester,11 Centennial History of Rochester, 1, 279 -80, 282. 18* Peter B» Porter (1773^1644) was a congressmen, a major-general, and Secretary of War* After graduating from Tale la 1731 he studied lavfj and ir? 1795 went to Canandaigua, Hew York to practise. In 1797 he was appointed Clerk of Ontario County which then embraced all of Western Sew York* In 1805 he was removed, as he was identified with the Burr faction of the Republican party* from 1809 to 1815 he served as a Congressman fro"» .7$ stern New York and was important as one of the War*3awks+- He chaired the committee of the Sous© which reecTV"; preparation for war, .vith Canada as an objective* He mm very active in the military service an the Hiagara frontier (see Silo) and commanded about 600 Indians of the Six Mat ions * He investigated charges made in 18E2 against Parrish and Jones at th^request of the /rov rnment* (see In 1828 and 1829 he was Secretary of far and one of his chief problems wm the Indians of the Eastern States* Pratt, Julius W*# Peter Shell Porter,11 Dictionary of American Biography, 'I?, 99-lQGf Larned, op. eit*, I, 2g«Sener&l Isroal Chapim served as super intend eat of Indian affairs for the lorthern department until his death in the spring of 1795* The Indians hed confidence its him and mourned his loss by holding a council in memory of him." At that council, Red Jaeket requested that Iere&l Chap in, Jr», who had been deputy for his fattier for several years, be the new superintendent* B© asked that this request reach the government and recommended the younger § h ap in who was a Captains ^He being well acquainted with our business, and all the papers and belts of wampum being ia his hands, we cannot conceive of any other person so suitable to fill his father1s seat** Captain Chap in was appointed and served until the summer of 1802 when he was removed by Jefferson and replaced by Captain Callander Irrxm* The Indians later protested about this change, led Jacket sayings *Wo do not understand that any neglect of duty has been alleged against him* We are told it is because he differea from the president in his sentiments'on government matters* He has always been perfectly satisfactory to us * » * Ob Chap in? s last day in office, July 31, 1802, he wrote a letter to the Seneca chiefs at Buffalo Creek which he sent via. Jasper Parrish* She subject of the letter was the murder of a whit© man, John Hewitt, by a drunken Indian called * Stiff-armed George.*® The affair caused a great deal of excitement among the Indians and alarm among the inhabitants* It occurred at Sew Amsterdam which later beeem* Buffalo, Hew York* T^e Indies resisted the demands of the 1® Stone, Red ^acfret, op* pit*, pp* 235-36* 2m Ibid*, 3. 7WM7. pp* 258-64? Aaeriean State Papers, Indian Affairs, op* cit*, 1......over no r CI is ton to Seeretary of *far dearborn, August 'fl,' 1802, Clinton was petitioned by the Indians to pardon the murdered but he did not have the- power to do so* ft.elfil authorities to surrender the murderer* After several 'unsuccessful attempts to achieve agreement "between the Indians and the whites, the chiefs of the Senecms, Cayng&s, and Onondagas convened st Canezulaigaa ■ to consider the question* This was followed by a conference of the Indians and the citizens* Here Red Jacket voiced the opinion of his people. He mentioned that the Indian was drmk and had no intention to kill; drunkenness wns a cause for leniency in Indian custom* He .stated that he understood the lew York laws but that the Indians had. made .no treaty saying they would conform to them; and he asked for the case to be presented to the President and for the President to appoint a coiisti. ssion to settle the matter® The Indiana were finally compelled to surrender the murderer*' In the course of these events end amid great concern of the Indians for the murderer, Chapin isrote the following letter*13. Captain Ohapim Letter to the Semeom Chiefs at Buffalo Ore©kt 1802* Brothers • I aa sorry t© hear of the very disagreeable mews from Buffalo® Creek that one of our people has beem killed by one of your people* Brothers - this news is terriable disagreeable a&d afflicting* it naturally axoltaa temper and reremge at the first appear©nee -but Brothers let us reffleet & be eoll and endeavour to fis.de out what ought to b€ done to bring our minds to h&raonica & food agreement again - These things haire happened and they ha¥@ been settled, and X suppose it will be right in this ease to take such measures as to hare this business reconciled* and that the ahole of community should mot be rendered unhappy by the quarrel of iadirid-uala* Bre - You will consider nothing impoper in taking the Indian who stab14 one man k kill1 d one other and placing him is confinement* I consider the white people in this respect justifte&ble* as he fell on them as a mad man without any provocation ss 1 have been told* Bra - Tou on your part I trust will do nothing rash or hastey in this business & 1 hope & believe the white people on their part will conduct with humanity and prudence* Irs ~ The President of the limited States must be mad© acquainted with this transaction* 'who will eater into such measures as to preserve ' cur general peace k friendship unbroken* in ~ the reason you do not see me at Buffalo© Greek on this occasion is* The president of the U States has removed ma fro® office &18® this day my offio* terminates* Capt® Irriae^ who 1 beliwes lires ct Fr esq**-* Isle is-to be my successor, and ought to meet Jsou on this business* said as his -age-noy commences I suppose it is probable he will be with you soonu Brothers - 1 should hwe been happy to hare your Chiefs emtm forward to this plaoe yon proposed & still shall 'expect to you* ss some business of importance will be left to be transaoterd by me* Brs - 1® this is the last speech that you will receive from me as Agent ©f Indian affairs 1 hope you will pay due attention to ity as no one wishes more for your happiness and prosperity than Brothers your friend and. Hble serrt (Signed) Israel Chap in © am and sngna July 31 1802 (On back of letter) The Seneka Chiefs at Buff aloe Creek pr Mr. Parrish 11.Uaptain Callander Irrise or Irwin was the nm superlatendent* Little is kmowE about him^ but ted Jacket complained in his speech about the murdereri "We understand that the president has appointed a euperintaudent who is altogether unknown to u«» and who is tmacqiaainted with Indian affairs* We know him not in our country/ Red Jacket continued to say that if the Indians had been consulted they would! have made a suggest!** such as Oliver Phelps* Stone5 Red Jacke t» op» clt«* p. 263* : : mIn 130:3, at Canandaigua,Oliver Phelps awarded an annuity to the 8aneea ohiof Little Beard« In the sane year Phelps established his residence at Canandaigua after several long visits in the Genesee Country^ and managed the rnmnants of his land holdings*1 the Little Beard granted the annuity was undoubtedly the principal chief at the fonawanda Reservation, as distinguished from the cruel chief who lived at tittle Beard1 s To am on the Genesee Hiver* T^e Phelps annuity was made payable at Let is torn, a ccnirenienf center for the Tonawa&da chief but a great distance for the other Little Beard, and was granted for his love and1 good will* two qualities never attributed to the Little Beard of Little Beard1 s Town* the fonawsnda chief was a lieutenant in the far of 1812* and probably the chief who signed receipts in 1821 and 1826*2 1* -Ft—s, 1101 irer Phelpsloc♦ sit., pp* 530-31, lee 3°l3 aad ii in this series, u11 Oliver Phelpa awards smmltf to Little Beard, 1802* This may certify that for the consideration of love and good will to Little Beard ( so oalld), I agree to give him as a present, Twenty Dollars pr ® year, to he paid Annually to the said Little Beard, at the Town of Lew is ton, in produce ©nd clothing m he may want, during his natural life, for the faithful payment of which I hind myself my heirs and administrators dated at Caaandalgtia this 27th day of September 1802 - (Signed) Oliver Phelps TtThe fate ..of the Indium who committed a murder in 1802, referred to is a previous letter, was not settled until the next year. The great eoneern'of the Indians for his welfare was evidenced by an appeal in August 1802 to Governor Clinton of lew York, and by a deputation of Seneca, Oneida* and Onondaga chiefs who went, to Washington, D»C» in \1803 to plead for the murderer1 B releases While the chiefs were in Washington they mre addressed by Thomas Jefferson on February 14, 1803. It is interesting to note that the Indian wm tried 'and convicted at the Court of Oyer and terminer of-Ontario County on February 23, ■ 18GS*1 ■ A justice of the lew. fork Supreme Court* BreftkhoUt Livingston, presided- at the trial* A .petition-for pardon was sent to Governor - .■"..■'. Clinton by the attorney general* by the grand jury that indicted the Indian, and by many oitisens of Canandaigua* Judge Livingston wrote Clinton about the case recommending clemency $ he said that it had excited an uncommon interest and solicitude in the sachems and warriors of E J nation.* In -a special message the Governor presented the case to the Assembly* and the Indian *Stiff-armed George* was not executed. Stone, Red ifacket* op* cit. , fp. 263~84* 2. Henry Brockholst 1iYtaJSSm (1757-1823) was born in Mew York Citv graduated from the tallage of lew Jersey in 1774, am! fought in the devolution, fee studied law and bee me a prominent lawyer. In 1802 he was appointed Judge of the lew York Supreme Court. * Three years later he received an appointment to the United States Supreme Court, ^effersoniam in politics, Livingston was considered an able and independent judge. He was active in the organisation of the lew l-ork- public school .system* Cushman, Robert, wlenry Broekholst Livingston,n Dictionary of Americ an B lo graphv XI, 312-13. ?——-fiL S* Sj^pT^'-if8 PP^ 531 Governor ^Assembly, March 5, 1803, The Indian was pardoned oy aB; act passed on March 12,' 1803♦ 1&The speech of Jefferson to th? Is hflow* It is sigmm4 br th* Pr*r1d«-nt. A »*:trj5ed draft of this ■^tv, t)*'* md dated. t$ V foil t/I-r is In the transcripts of the Library of Congress, hut it has not been included in of the collected »rks of Jefferent Mi the Chief of the Mvlsion of tfanoeeripts is not iwirt of my whlieatlm of Probably several copies of the speech were aa.de eSpned by the President* 4* Sl«raefi*t, St* 0eorre Chief* Mvisior? of manuscriptst the Library of SmmrmMB* Letter March 21, 194u to Dorothy Mo K*lrb*nk« The draft of the address in the Library i s in The Papers of Thorn?-s Jefferson^ "Volume 130, folios 22347 - 22348; it is a manuscript of three octavo pages® Address Made end Signed by Thomas Jefferson v&ile President to XndiaB BaJegaiiom in Washington, 1803* Brothers of the Seneca, Oneida k Gnomdagua laticn©* 1 give you a hearty welcome on your arrival at the Seat of our Government, where I am glad to take you by the hand and to renew the Chain of Friendship between usf and 1 &m thankful to the Great Spirit who has preserved you in health during your long journey at this in©lament season of the year, md am hopefull his protection will cover you on your return* I sincerely lament with you, Brothers, the unfortunate murder which was committed by one of your people on one of ours at Buffalo* Creek - It has been one of the many evils produced by the abuse of spiritous liquors - and it is with sincere pleasure I learn that your people have in a great measure abandoned the use of them — You ask an explanation htm it has happened,that, our Treaty5 having provided that injuries done by-either party to the other shall be settled by ©omiss loners, the murderer, in this case, should be tried by the Lasrs of lew York* to -which laws you say you never gave your consent, and therefore are not subject to them - The words of the Treaty, Brothers, are, 11 that for injuries dome by individual© on either aids no privates revenge or retaliation shall take place, but, instead thereof, aoaplaint shall be made by the party injured to the other, by the six nations, or env of them, to the President of the tf« S*, or the Superintendent by him appointed, md, by the Superintendant or other person appointed by the President, to the principal Chiefs of the six nations, or of the nationis to nhieh the offender" belongs^ and such prudent measures shell then be pursued as shall be necessary to preserve our peace and friendship imbrokem., until, the Legislature or great Come 11 of the U* States shall make other equitable provision for^ffie. purpose** In pursuance of this agreement in the Treaty* the Srest Cornell of the W® S* have made provision by a law that* where any murder shall be committed by any of our people on yours, or of yours om ours, the murderer shall be punished with death ~ In this case the murder was ©owiitted within the lends belonging to lew Tork, and therefore the Judges of lew York are the persons authorised to enquire into the truth of the fact, and to punish it, if true - md had the murder been committed, at the same place by an Englishman, a Frenchmm, a Spaniard, m American, or « person of any other nation, the same Judges would hs.¥e tried it, by the same rules, and subject to the tmi pumi&hmemtf So that yon are placed on the same footing, in this respect, as the most powerful k the most friendly nations are, and as we are ourselves* As the State authority, inhere the murder was committed, is appointed to en-quire into the fact k punish it, so they era entrusted to remit the punishment, if they find it was committed under circumstances which entitle the murderer to mercy* Jjid 1 have great hopes, Brothers, that those who enquire into the case may find grounds for pardoning the offender, and that hffeay again be safely restored to you® Jqu ask that the Lands which you hold at the luff aloe Creek,6' Allegany md all other reserves, now in your possession, may remain your a, and descend to yo-ur children, mi that we will consist, your title to these lands, and oppose any chief who- may in future oom& %15® ferwto mil* These lands are yours, Brothers^ to confirm the title to them for yourselves and your children^ against ©tar people, md ell other sf except yours#lT@s* Ho per son shall m®r take one foot of them by my bargsta with one or a few lan&vfchorised chiefs* aor any otherwise than with the consent of your nation^ fully girm by your d: puties* according to your own rules& customs - when the aatiom at large shall see an interest in making any bargain respecting their own lands* they certainly would not ehuee we should oppose what thay Jmdge fur th#ir own interest* All to can rightfully do is to maintain tii® in the exercise of all their rights over the eountry they poss#ssf and this we will• do against fraud force* With respect to the residence of our superinte&dsmt, or m o assistant* at £osura«d&igua# to the payment of your monies at Albany, the delivery of the goods for the One id as* Onondaiguas k Stoekbridge Indians st lofiOB-daigm, and the continuance of the blacksmiths and gunsmiths, the Secretary of War will consult with yon & will e3td#«reur to eMmed-ai* these matters to your and our convenience* Wh&terer he says to you on that subject, you are to consider as if said by myself* We hmpm -with you, Brothers* that the tomahawk is forever buried C be tureen is $ Rirer more to be taken up-* Peace and friendship is our best Interest* By war we cam laJure one another$ but so good man can receive pi ©a sura from doing injuries* We wish to see you &dranoe to th© eultiT&tion of the earth, in raa&u&c^rlog clothes, end in whatever may eon tribute to f#ad & clothe your people, and make them comfortable * happy* In this wey your' numbers will increase, k the hanbhips k n15* wants jom warn experience, from tfee uncertain pursuit of wild beast©, will be exchanged for plentiful living, produced by lees labor from the so11 you live on* 1 gray you, Brothers to carry for am to your nation, a© stir an© es of the constant friendship sand protection of the United States to them* • (Signed) Th* Jefferson fab 14, 180S* /ooThe Treaty here mentioned is the- Canandaigua Treaty of 1794 and the quotation a fair lines later is frcm that treaty* kMeriear, State Pagers, Indian Affairg^ op« cit*, X* 545# the treaty* ' 6# Buffalo!e) Crsei Reservation was a large- reserve along Buffalo Creek including the present site of Buffalo, it was one of the reservations reserved to the Indians in 1797 • AllegCh)any Reservation extended on both sides of the Alleghany Hirer from western part of the Hirer in lew York for aver half of its distance in that state• 8® Konon-daigua is a variation of Canandaigua* mJasper Parrish hmarne sub-agent of the United States to the Six Mat ions of Indians in February, 1805, as t hm letter - from the Secretary of War, Henry Dearborn, ^reveals* 1* Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) was born in Sew Hampshire* studied and practiced medicine, headed a company in the Revolution, and in 1779 headed a regiment in Sullivan* s ariay that laid waste to the Semesee Valley • He represented Massachusetts in the United States Congress from 1793 to 1797. In 1812 he was the senior Major-General of ""the . army and the ranking officer. His earlier military successes did not last and he was incompetent in his new command* In 181$ he became ill and the command went to General M0rgan Lewis. After much criticism he received an honorable discharge in 1815. From 1822-24 he served as Minister to Portugal* Pratt, Julius, * Henry Dearborn,* Dictionary of American Biography, V, 174-76. _-^^16* I&*triH»ti03i8 from the Secretary of War to Parrish, cm lis Anointment as 1805* War Bepartmeitt 15th February 1803 Sir With this you will receive a cosimission2 constituting yam a Sub-Agent of the United States to the six Mat ions, now under the general superintendence of Callendar Irvine Isqnlre. Intil more ample instructions on the sub j©ct of your tgency, asc! various duties connected with it can be furnished, you will govern yourself b» suoh directions as you may receive from Mr. Irvine, in all matters, in relation to which you are not particularly instructed by this department. It will he your duty to spend at least three months in each year, during the warm season, within the tribes of the Oneidas, Cayugas, Stockbridge, ©Bondages, and those Indians who inhabit the basks ef the Genesee river.3 Of your proceedings while among the Indians^ you will keep a correct journal, ntoing and remarking such circumstances as in your judgment are important to the United States, a copy of which you will forward to this office and duplicate to Mr. Irvine, at least once a year. Tou will endeavour to obtain and confirm the good will and affection of the Indians? to introduce the arts of civilisation, domestic manufactures, and agriculture, fo dlsuade from and discountenance /o3,16 the ii so of ardent spirits among them, and in mil matters end things conduot yourself in such manner ms shall be best o&leulmtM to offset the benevolent designs and views of the General Government towards their Indian brethren* Y on will be careful and vigil sat in reporting every circumstance and event which mey occur that is important to th^ government of the United States to be made aoqmi&ted with* The pl&ee of your residence will for the present be Canandaigua* I am, Sir, Yr obt Servant (Signed) Dearborn Jasper Pmrrish Ss<§r* The actual *ppoSfitnent» also dated February 18, 1805, is in the recoris of the War Department and a copy of it is in a footnote to * Story of C a tain Jasper Parrish,* loc- sit», p* 555n. It notes that his compensation wss fixed at a sa2Sy';'oF*Kl450 per year, payable quarter^yearly* the Indians inhabiting the hanks of the Genesee liver wmr® mainly Seneeas to various villages such as Ljttle Beard1 s town md Big free Tillage® The itw sub-agent bad many duties* as outlined in his instructions and as revealad by the letter of his superior, Gal lender Irwin or Xrvtii** in May 18G3* The United States was interested in promoting civilization among the tribes, and the Tuscarora mill is an indication of this® The Tttaearo-r* Village was located in northwestern Mew fork not far from Lewistem* Parrish was responsible for making payments for the government and for reporting on conditions of the various Indian Iations« I0(c.17* 0 allender Irwim Letter to Jasper Pwrrlsh* 180S* Presque 1 Isle May 18th« 1805 Bear Sir, 1 arrived here the next day after 1 parted with you, more fatigued then my horse, & just in time to send you six hundred ^ 3' jH dollars by Mr® Reed who sets out tomorrow for C&nendaigua -p i* 55 two hundred of this you will pay Mr* Follett taking his reet« 5 2,- therefor, specifying it as the first payment of a contract X iN p "J o % * entered into by "said Follett for erecting a mill at the fuse ar or a I p o be good enough to acknowledge the rect» of the whole ^ sum, bs soon as vtm eomreniently cm me a return of the I « 5 £ 1 different Nations of Indians and their relative situations* 'I hope yon found all well on your arrival at home« fours sincerely (Signed) Gallender Irwin P*S® I will send you more when I hear from the War Department, dont forget Major Sogers* Indn Shoes - m so good an opportunity may not occur Jasper Parrish Bsqr* shortly, 1 hmm straind 200 morn making $800 in. all, & will trust to providence for more /*7.ft SO O m i % ft IS 1* n m m m it m ■m m m m t m 0 1 1 it H m M ® m. ft m SO 1 CO I* ■ft 1 m a # t* Q & A 4* m m 4> 1 Jk 1 I © i l M m m $ I *Q m u m A ® 0 Jf m m m a 1 •j- 4* it H o Ji H 4> t o # If I a l I l 3 4* U P' ^ O fe # ■ u m m m ® m I 8 0 o ■K A m M 0 m %4 1 A J 1 o o ' o f I H CO w i « 0 a t* o u m u m « #t : I I * #4 jg i 1 4> 0 # # u 0 1 ts> m IT 99 u 0 ly i & m m i 0 1 m § o ♦ «p 0 § # ho 1 0 1 i 0 ft fi 0 1 I f* 'U § m i o a W m m i si 1 -if i # t*4 # 4U O P 0 ip | g. o 9 Wrt \s m clVV opt" oy I* Vtot ft. ot 0 1 i # 4> & § I 23 "\Vl*»5 "XbUttVi, CS.^ei") C TO" cJT 0 t i 1 it ii I I ft I •3 <0 O » o a o 1 I $4 If J r-t . i fl 0 S 1 CO w IS # 0 Jd m m M # o m u O m m M # O w IS •« o f0 I 0 1 1 i « I u # # s •ts 0 o it I i e h 1 i t IS | A O J i is k I if! M § I i ft o 0 *0 0 Si ii 1 I ft H « i i I mfhe government policy for Indian affairs included an annual gift to the tribes usually to goods* for the Six Nations the sum was $1500 from 17S2 t© IT94, when it was increased to $4500* Following ar@ three invoices for the annuity for 1805* So e of the items are listed first ir English money and then in dollars and cents^ uniform accounting In American money was mot then general® 0e&eral Peter dansevoort, to whom the packages iter® addressed at Albany, was Military Agent for the Morthern Department having had long experience in military affairs during and after the Revolution*1 1* 41 den* Edmund Iiff%llt *Peter G&asevoort** Dictionary of Amer "can . rgi§raplF' 127~28* General iansev ortTs dates were 1749 to mrzi in 1809 he beeame a lrigmdi@r~§eneral of 'the United States Army # JOB,18* ImwJbes of ImMm tam&tgr tor 18©§# of sundry peekag** 4*lfcr*r«d by inorgt Xmgelf Esquire Agent fer tb§ Xndlfta Department to William Limtard Isqre Military Agent for traaapertatiei) to Alb«raqr» addressed to 6enl Bmmm-mrt and to be by him forwarded #*<greem%iy to the orders of the Seeretisry of War* W^rkm k umbered se per Berlin liOi 0 net At* I? 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Ctti Y- !> Cc*> ^ e» ^C .S3 1 1 £5* \t ,!5 H3 a* No fc»- GU3 ®' ** 1) pv vcd „T- .n— . ----------, II "Uu. ...tb »M3 »1ybe«.<a>3 dAvAnOL \a0 j*^ C«K<£Coofv> ^/"Hs Ux 3/1 \-OVCr _43.lf.-t" 5"I. lo__•t 1*5 li ^15 I SI ===== 5.53 53 ?ftTt 56 ///18* Involec of one Box of Cloth relirered by George 2sqr 4g©at for the Indian t®f>arts3®®ts to Willlasa Llansrd Rsqr M,lit«ry Agent, for transportation to Albany, ftddr®S5©d to Gftal Gaoseroort sad to be by Ms f©rwny<3«d ngroosbly to tha orders of tho Secretary of far Mprk'd £* mi»tmr*d ss pr Margin 0. S. 1805 U.S. Arsorml 10th Say 180®. St* HaAiffinj GV.c^s Mo. I F Scar\€t C\o«. <32. \3/\0 ? ^ > MvAflOL -3! 3— 1 ta- 2 U) ^ uHas Uue CloH a ^ — 1 O l> t, ... 30 Box <£ /nil I oortify these ar« true copies fro® the originals (Slpiod) Jao ¥11 sos CUc H2..Baftas are a coarse and cheap fabric generally cotton which e -me originally from the Orisnt, but was later made in Great Britain for export* especially to Africa** Samuel Eliot Mori sob mentions baft&s as cotton from India. purchased at Bombay and Calcutta and brought to the United States* Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford^ 1923, 1, 620$ Moiison^ SamuelHSTIo^ of Massachusetts, Boston,, 1B21, 87*88+ Platillas are a kind of Silesisn white linen* ' Dictionary op* oit», YXJ, 987* Booking Baise is a coarse woolen fabric often used for linings or flour coverings* Ibid>, I, 629, 961* Mamoodias probably refer to a plain, fine, muslin from India, the word is given as Majmodis in Ibid», ¥1, 97* Coverlids is a variation of coverlets, these had the small, uniform diaper pattern in the weave* The term diaper table-cloths was used in this period to distinguish the weave from other types* Ibid., II, 1106, III, 318. yyj.When the S«eets sold their rights to the Immnnm tracts .of lend in Western lew York to Sob#rt Morris at Big free in September, 179? j Morris and the United States commissioner, Wadsworth, arranged that the purchase of #100,000 should be invested in the stock of the Bank of the United States and fetid In the name of the President of the United States for the use and benefit of the Seneeas*^ Wadsworth ootild give his consent only if the financial arrangements were made in this way* It was difficult to make the Indians tinder stand a bank* . dividends, and why payments might vary from year to year* fhey also found it hard to comprehend large sums of money and their value* :fhe Indians pictured Philadelphia as a large field where their money was planted and some years the crop was better than other years* They were shown how many dollars filled a cask, and them told how many casks it would require to hold #100,000* Anoth@r/4ay was to tell the Indians how many horses would be necessary to draw the weight of the money* fhe following letter to Parrish at Canandaigua from Secretary Bear bora refers to the return on the stock for 1806 of #S3S0* IV that year the dividends were She amount received by the chiefs was a proper return on the #100,000 investment as the stock quotation was above par at the time of its purchase* probably about 125*® Americm State rapers* Indian Affairs* op* pit** I* 627, Contract ' betwen' Robert Morris m& the Seneca lotion of Indians* 2* Stone* led Jacketi op* clt»* pp*247-48* fona*er# Will Ism "grahwat, Bistory of B^yk W in the United States* {1 of History of Banking* edited by t* Podsworth, HtioU^IS^) p* w Xnox* John Jay .and others, History of inking in the' united States Mew York* 1900, pp. Hol^sworth, ^ohn fhSm ana^WwiyT^IFfTr 3* 56 i fhe First and Second Banks of the -United States* Washington* 1910* wtebes-~—----—-- ^ The quotation for February 14* 1797 was 112 and for January 10, 17#8 - 123* fhe exact date, price*, and charges of the purchase and ||i of discount in the transfer tag of the money are unknown! but 0 or #8.00 per #100*00 share on 800 shares is #6400, md 800 shares at #125*00 each is #100*000* the total investment* Some plan similar to this suggested Mist have existed* it is in line with the known facts® fh@ original purchase price per share was #400*00 and liquidation per share in 1811 #434*00,so the figuring on a #100*00 basis is for simplification* II*a Searterm writes Parrish mentioning the receipt by the- Seneca Chiefs of §6350, the return on the #100,000 paid by Hobert Morris. War Department August 11th 1806 Sir lour letter of the 26th mlt* enclosing the receipt of the Seneca Chiefs for #6380, came duly to hand*. I am respectfully Sir, Tour Ob® Serb (Signed) 1* Dearborn Jasper Parrish, Esqr • (On back of letter) Washintorn Aug 11 War Department S» Dearborn PHBE Jasper Parrish, Ssquire Canandaigua I. B® Dearborn Esqr letter Augt 11th 1806 us:Two years later a letter outlines the plan of Secretary Dearborn for forwarding the Interest on the $100*000 investment to the Sen .eo&& ▼ia Issper Parrish* Mr# Erastus Srsnger was the Indian agent of Western law York and mede his headquarters at Buffalo^ dearborn1 s letter has a reference to him*1 The §6300 is probably the July, ISO? semi-annual . g dividend of and the smm for January, 1B08®" 1* Erastus Granger was impor in the early life of Buffalo where he want in 1804 as f?the aooredited representative of the So^ernment in all political matters/* Buffalo at this time had 16 huts® He was superintendent of Indian affairs for the region, and in September was commissioned postmaster at Buffalo Creek. An express later ran between Buffalo and Washington* D# C* and it was Yia Buffalo that the Western generals in the War of 1812 received their official, instructions* Granger also acted for a while as Surveyor and Collector of the Port of Buffaloe Greek. and, In 1807 he was named a judge of the County of Gene see/when Niagara County w&'s separated frorr, Genesee in 1808, he became a judge of the new county and served until 1817* In 1816 and 1817 he was the taperriaor of Buffalo which was the highest 'office of the town* Many Indian councils were held at Buffalo under his supervision* An outstanding one was in the summer of 1812 to tell the Indians hy the United States md Great Britain were at war® The speeches made at that time by Granger and $ed Jacket were published and composed the first book ever issued in Buffalo* 85Documents and Miscellany/5 Buffalo Historical Society Publications, If (1896)^ 385-86. * ^ 2o itofdsworth and Dewey$ op» eit»» p* 137* //4 •JLOi Dearborn to Parrish eoacermlmr, the Sea eea inveetaent of flOO^OCX) - 1808 Mr® Sramger hawing in formed m© that vou will be in Philadelphia about the 10th Inst® has desired that 1 would forward ycsi lay warrant for 10500 on the Cashier of the Bank US^ on account of the Sari@oa Motion* 1 ha^e accordingly seat the same to !r» Core* on whom you will please to call to reeeire and receipt for it® War Department January 6th 1808 Sir I gua* Sir yours respectfully (Signed) E# Dearborn Jasper Psrriah, Bequire (OB hack of letter) Washington Jan 6 War Department H* Dearborn FREE Jasper P&rrleh* Esqr Philadelphia H# Dearborn Isqr letter Jany* 6, 1808 litJasper Parrish* s duties were varied» The followig latter was written fey William Spring presenting a problem of Indium whit© relations mud of liias property* Spring operated a tmem bearing his name? at iaths on the Cohooton Hirer* about eighteen miles northwest of the Painted Font,1 He addressed the letter to Parrish as Captain Pgrrish* the title refering to his rank in the militia of lew York State in whieh hm kmi fc©an mtiw® since 1?96* T* 0* to Jiajtara,>ln 180% repr-intod Roohoctor» I91& »ftroar-tfae . p* 10*21* t V Latter to P«rt§fi from Will lam i#"Mg> 1803* Bath 24th August 1803- Dear Sir* There la Siren Indians in this neighborhood that has been mmh alarmed by Being shot at the other evening by some hunters (as we suppose) and hare lost their horses which they cant find simee the C iretnetanee happened ~ there is aereral Hunters living in the neighbeurhood of Mmd Greek^ where this thing happened who have allwaiae been opposed to the Indians hunting on their grou&d, hut the Inhabitants here sat able to prove axy thing against them -the people to the Tillage wishes them to hunt and are willing to help them in finding their horses ~ the Bearer east Satisfied without eomeing to mm you and wished seme per soon to write a line of course was willing to Satisfy them and will do fmjthiBg to help them to find ont who has troubled them - I am with esteem &e (Signed) William Spring Capt Parish (On baek of letter) Captain Parish • CmaadalguaGrm^k la m ereek-joining the OohoeteB liver six. milei eontfaeaat of Bath, and twelve miles? northwest of the Painted Post® ■ / Iff! 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Date: 1808-10-15
Text: Ontario County Clerk's Office ss. I certify the foregoing to be a true & correct exemplification of the record of the Instrument herein set forth, examined & compared- Inn testimony whereof, I have herein to affixed the seal of the said office and subscribed my name, this fifteenth day of October in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred & eight- and of the Independence of the United States, the thirty third. James B. Mower Clerk

Creator: Parish, Jasper, 1767-1836
Date: 1793-05-14_1793-07-27
Text: Dr The Commissioners of the United States/for treating with the hostile Indians/ in a/c with Jasper Parrish, Cr 1793 May 14 to expences from Canadaiguay to Niagara - - - 3 85 to cash did to Henry Obeal - - - - - - 1 to expences at Mr. Streats - - - - - - 1 to horse hire 5 days - - - - - - 2 50 27 to expences to Phild - - - - - - 12 45 to ditto in Phild - - - - - - 2 95 June 25 to my expences returning from Phild to Niagara 12 37 to my extra service as as express from Niagara 58 Phil from May...
Show moreDr The Commissioners of the United States/for treating with the hostile Indians/ in a/c with Jasper Parrish, Cr 1793 May 14 to expences from Canadaiguay to Niagara - - - 3 85 to cash did to Henry Obeal - - - - - - 1 to expences at Mr. Streats - - - - - - 1 to horse hire 5 days - - - - - - 2 50 27 to expences to Phild - - - - - - 12 45 to ditto in Phild - - - - - - 2 95 June 25 to my expences returning from Phild to Niagara 12 37 to my extra service as as express from Niagara 58 Phil from May to June 25 inclusive 29 days to expences for horse keeping - - - - - - 1 63 to horse hire from Canadaiguay to Newtown - - 3 75 to hire for return Sd horse - - - - - - - 3 to my own horse 8 days - - - - - - - - - - 4 14 to cash p. Jacob Elry for horse hire pr recet 2 to ditto to John Eremser - - - - - - - - - - - 1 22 17 to ditto Maratet Conner horsehire - - - - - - 6 13 18 to ditto pr Gorge Lesher - - - - - - - - - - - 6 31 27 to Adam Vrooman till - - - - - - - - - - - 9 18 1/2 28 to Cash pd for shoeing a hors and Expences at F Erie 2 37 1/2 July 3 to ditto to L. Butler pr receipt - - - - - - 1 24 to ditto to A1 Levering do - - - - - - 2 55 25 to ditto to Wancham Kingsley do - - - - - - 3 27 27 to ditto to Israel Chapin juner - - - - - - - 3 75 to ditto for horse keeping at Canandaiguay - 1 87 1/2 to horse shooeing and Entertainments - - - - - 2 37 1/2 to expences at Niagara - - - - - 3 30 to ditto while in Phil - - - - - - - - 2 47 to ditto on returning from Phila - - - - - - 8 60 to horse hire and keeping at Shesheguen - - - 2 66 2/3 Augt 5 to expences at Fort Erie - - - - - - 2 54 11 to cash pd Capt Cowan for passage from Fort Erie to Detroit - - - - - - - - - - 15 50 to expences from Niagara to Canadaiguay - - 3 Sept 18 to expences at Fort Erie and Niagara - - 21 66 2/3 to Nathan Raymon Bill - - - - - - - - - - 99 to his extra service as expenses from Niagara to Phila and back to Detroit from July 10 to Augt 11 inclusive 32 days 64with the hostile Indians/ in a/c with Jasper Parrish, Cr By Cash at 3 times as p receipt to Coll PickeringCopy of expences Sept 1793 Paid
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Date: 1805
Text: Invoice of sundry packages delivered by George Ingels Esquire Agent for the Indian Department to William Linnard Esqre Military Agent for transportation to Albany, and dressed to Genl Gansevoort and to be by him forwarded agreeably to the orders of the Secretary of War. Marked & numbered as per Margin U. S. 1805 United States Arsenal May 10th 1805 Oneidas & Onondagas Annuity No 1 Cask 3 pieces coatings no. 76 1/4 yds advance 2 pieces yellow flannel 1 do red No 2 Cask 12 pieces sundry...
Show moreInvoice of sundry packages delivered by George Ingels Esquire Agent for the Indian Department to William Linnard Esqre Military Agent for transportation to Albany, and dressed to Genl Gansevoort and to be by him forwarded agreeably to the orders of the Secretary of War. Marked & numbered as per Margin U. S. 1805 United States Arsenal May 10th 1805 Oneidas & Onondagas Annuity No 1 Cask 3 pieces coatings no. 76 1/4 yds advance 2 pieces yellow flannel 1 do red No 2 Cask 12 pieces sundry calicoes 338 1/2 yds 30 cts 15 pieces Guzzapoor Baftas 240 5 pieces while platillas 11$ 306 Kegs 4 qt Casks powder 100 lbs 32 ct Wrapping No 7 Keg 250 lbs Lead 12 8 10 Casks 1 pr blankets strip'd no. 1 2: 14:6 1 " do " 3 3: 6:6 2 " do " 5 78/ 7:16 1 " do " 6 4: 5:6 1 " do " 11 3: 1 1 " do " 12 3: 5:6 1 " do " 13 3: 12:6 1 " do " 14 3: 17: 1 " do " 1 3: 9:6 35: 8: advance 120 pct 42: 9: 7 No 11 Box 1 pr red Strands No 64. 19 1/2 ids @ 3/4 3: 5 5 pr blue 1693. 19 ea 60/ 15: 18:5 advance 120 pct 21:18 4 Casks & cooperage 1 $25 1 Cask do 1 box & strapping Dld Sept 11thInvoice of sundry packages delivered by George Ingels Esquire Agent for the Indian Department to William Linnard Esqre Military Agent for transportation to Albany, addressed to Genl Gansevoort and to be by him forwarded agreeably to the orders of the Secretary of War. Marked & numbered as per Margin U. S. 1805 U. S. Arsenal May 10th. 1805. Six Nations Annuity 6 pieces striped coatings 144 3/4 yards @ 3/6 No 1 2 Casks 1 pr blue booking Baize 20 yds @ 2/8 1/2 2:13:9 28: 0:4 1/2 Advance 115 pct. 32: 4: 42 24 pr Sundry Calicoes 28 ea 672 uds @ 30 cents 9 white platillas @ 11$ 2 Casks & Cooperage @9/4/2 3@ 12 Kegs 10 qt Casks powder 250 lb @ 32 cents Wrapping @ 10 23 @15 ditto 750 lb Lead 16 Cask 3 pr red Flannel 3 pr yellow do @133/ 39:18 18 mamoodies 3/68 Cask & Cooperage 17@19 Casks 5 pr strip'd blankets (15 ea) no 1. 76/6 19.2.6 7 " " do " 2 82/6 28.17.6 Advance 15 pct 4 diaper coverlids @ 9/4 3 Casks & Cooperage @ 9/4 1/2 20 Bale 1 pr Strip'd buff Blankets (15) no 1 2:15.6 21 Cask 1 " " do 2 3. 3. 1 " " do 3 3.10 1 " " do 4 3.17.6 2 Blankets 53 10.6 Riggs @ 4/10 9.8 Canvas 4. Carr. up …. No 20 Bale Brought up 21 Cask 1 pr strip'd Buff Blankets no. 1 2.15.6 1 " " ditto 2 3.3 1 " " ditto 4 3.17.6 Advance 120 pct Cask & Cooperage No 22 Cask 3 pr red Strands No 61. 62. 63. 59 1/2 yds @ 3/4 23 Box 11 " blue ditto 1693 19 ids ca @ 3 33……. 42.18.4 Advance 120 pct 51.10. Cash & Coop ge. 9/4 1/2 box 3/9 3 3/5 Overlits (in box No. 23) @ 11.7 Invoice of one Box of Cloth delivered by George Ingels Esqr Agent for the Indian Department, to Willliam Linnard Esqr Military Agent, for transportation to Albany, addressed to Genl Gansevoort and to be by him forwarded agreeably to the orders of the Secretary of War Mark'd & numbered as pr Margin U. S. 1805 U. S. Arsenal 10th May 1805 Six Nations Chiefs No. 1 5 yds Scarlet Cloth @ 13/10 Advance 120 pct 12 ids blue Cloth @ 4$ 50/100 Box & Wrapping I certify these are true copies from the originals Jno Wilson OlkInvoices of Indian Annuity for the year 1805.
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Date: 1820-09-21
Text: Whereas by an act passed in the first year of our Reign initialed "An Act to enable his majesty to grant pensions to officers and attendants upon His ____ late majesty and other persons to whom "His said late Majesty had granted pensions and allowances "it was found expedient to enable us to make some provisions for certain of the Officers Attendants and Servants of Om lake Royal Father of happy and glorious memory and for certain person to whom on said late Royal Father had...
Show moreWhereas by an act passed in the first year of our Reign initialed "An Act to enable his majesty to grant pensions to officers and attendants upon His ____ late majesty and other persons to whom "His said late Majesty had granted pensions and allowances "it was found expedient to enable us to make some provisions for certain of the Officers Attendants and Servants of Om lake Royal Father of happy and glorious memory and for certain person to whom on said late Royal Father had granted pensions and Allowances payable out of his privy … And it was therefore enabled that it should be lawful for US to grant such pensions and allowances to such persons as he might think for not exceeding to any person the amount of the Salary allowance or person which he or she received immediately preceding the Demise of our said take Royal Father and not exceeding in the whole the sum of twenty one thousand seven hundred and fifteen pounds sixteen shillings and six pence per annum ad to charge the same upon the consolidated fund of the United Kingdom official Britain and ireland and which pensions so to be granted should commence from the 5th day of July 1820 and lo be paid and payable quarterly at the deceitful of the Exchequer at Westminster out of the said consolidated Fund free and clear of and from all taxes changes and other deductions whatsoever And whereas we are graciously pleased to give and grant into Richard Warrington ….. annuity or Yearly pension of one hundred and thirty pounds to commence from she said 5th day of July 1820 Our will and Pleasure is and we do hereby direct authorize and command that you do free and pay or cause to be issued and paid out of any Money which now is or which from time to time shall be and remain in the recipe of the … of the Monies comparing the Consolidated and offered Britain and Ireland into the Intact: in office: Audit: Receipt: … said Richard Warrington or to his assigns the said Annuity or Yearly pension of One hundred and thirty pounds for and during the life of the said Richard Warrington … account and without any fees or charges to be demanded or taken for paying the same or any part thereof to commence and take effect from the said 5th day of July 1820 and from henceforth to be paid quarterly on the four most usual days of payment in the ;year that is to say the 10th day of October the 5th day of January the 5th day of April and the 5th day of July in each and every year And for so doing this shall be your warrant given at our Point at Carlton House this 21st day of Septemeber 1820 In the first year of our Reign By his Majesty's Command The Commissions of our Treasury [illegible Ed Robers Dept :Cler: Pellium… 11th ..1839..
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Creator: Lewis, Morgan
Date: 1813-04-27
Text: Buffalo 27th April 1813 Sir, Presuming from your Letter to Mr. Granger that you have by this time reached your own house; I wish you to inform me whether any permission has been given by Government for the employment of the Indians. If there has, not ime is to be left in giving an Invitation to such of the Warriors as have fire Arms to join me at Lewistown. Could you be with them to keep them in order it would be advisable. Be pleased to let me hear from you immediately-- I am Sir your hum...
Show moreBuffalo 27th April 1813 Sir, Presuming from your Letter to Mr. Granger that you have by this time reached your own house; I wish you to inform me whether any permission has been given by Government for the employment of the Indians. If there has, not ime is to be left in giving an Invitation to such of the Warriors as have fire Arms to join me at Lewistown. Could you be with them to keep them in order it would be advisable. Be pleased to let me hear from you immediately-- I am Sir your hum Serv. Morgan Lewis Jasper Parish Esq.Buffalo NY 12 1/2 30 April 1813 Jasper Parish Esq CanandaiguaM. Lewis Esq letter April 27 1813 Morgan Lewis letter 30 Apil 1813
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Date: 1807-08-03
Text: This Indenture made the ninth day of March in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and Ninety seven Between Charles Morgan of the Town of Soipio in the County of Onondaga and State of New York and Halana his daughter of the One part and Jasper Parish of the town of Canandargue in the County of Ontario end State a a foresail of the other part Witnesseth that the said Halana, daughter of the said Charles aged eleven years on the third day of July in the Year Seventeen hundred and...
Show moreThis Indenture made the ninth day of March in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and Ninety seven Between Charles Morgan of the Town of Soipio in the County of Onondaga and State of New York and Halana his daughter of the One part and Jasper Parish of the town of Canandargue in the County of Ontario end State a a foresail of the other part Witnesseth that the said Halana, daughter of the said Charles aged eleven years on the third day of July in the Year Seventeen hundred and Ninety six, by end with the consent of the said Charles, her father, hath of her own free and Voluntary Will placed and bound herself Apprentice unto the said Jasper, with him to Dwell and Serve from the Day of the Date of these Presents until the said Apprentice shall accomplish the full Age of Eighteen Years, according to the Statute in that Case made and provided: During all which time the said Apprentice her said Master faithfully shall serve on all lawful business according to her Power, Wit and ability: and shall honestly, orderly, and Obedient in all things demean and behave herself towards her said Master, and all his, during the said Term. And the said Jasper far himself, hie Executors and Administrators doth covenant and agree to and with the said Charles, by these Presents, that the said Jasper shall and will during all the termaforesaid find, provide and allow unto the said apprentice competent and sufficient meat, drink and apparel, washing lodging, mending, and all other things necessary and fit for such an Apprentice; and at the end of the said Term shall and will sake, allow, provide and deliver unto the said apprentice two good new suits of clothes; and also allow, procure and Deliver unto the said Apprentice a good Milch Cow at the Expiration of said Term; And also shall for the Space of six months during the said term put the said Apprentice to some good English School, to be instructed in reading writing and Arithmetic. In Witness whereof the said parties to these presents have hereunto inter changably set their hands and seals the Day and Year first above Written. - - Charles Morgan Sealed and Delivered In presence of Thos. Mumford Idele Strong - Jasper Parrish Canandaigua Augt. 3d 1807 Recd. of Jasper Parrish thirty five Dollars in full of the with Indenture, for and in behalf of ay wife Helena Morgan, the within named girl - Abel Hawley
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Date: 1798-12-5
Text: Be it remembered that on the Thirtyeth Day of October in the year one thousand Seven hundred and ninetyeight formally came before me Moses Stevater one of the judges of the Court of Common … for the County of Ontario Thomas Morris who being duly Sworn declared the Law the Grantors of the within Instrument affix there Signatures to the same as an execution thereof- and that he the defendant [?] with Charles Williamson in the presence of each of the Subscribed their names as witnesses to the...
Show moreBe it remembered that on the Thirtyeth Day of October in the year one thousand Seven hundred and ninetyeight formally came before me Moses Stevater one of the judges of the Court of Common … for the County of Ontario Thomas Morris who being duly Sworn declared the Law the Grantors of the within Instrument affix there Signatures to the same as an execution thereof- and that he the defendant [?] with Charles Williamson in the presence of each of the Subscribed their names as witnesses to the Same- i being personally acquainted with Thomas Morris and upon inspection of the said instrument finding no material erasures or other accusation do allow the same to be recorded-- Moses Stevater Clerks Office County of Ontario Registered in the Fifth book of the Records of Deeds for the County of Ontario Page 355 this Thirtieth day of October AD 1798 Peter B. Porter ClerkKnown all Men by …that we the Chiefe Warriors and Chiefe Saiheim of the Senaka Nation for and in Consideration of the sum of one Dollar to us in Hand paid by Mary Timopon the … where wof we do hereby acknowledge and are fully satisfied land contented and paid have given granted bargained … release conveyed and confirmed unto her the said Mary Jimoson her Heirs and Assigns forever one certain Parcel or Fraction of Land … lying on the Genesee River beginning at the Mouth of the Stegs Hill crick. and running a .. line til it …the old .. thence South till a West line will intersect with Sertain … an the West Side Genesee River then extending due West due North due East till it strikes the first mentioned … as much Land upon the West Side of the River as it does on the East Side of Said River To have and to hold the above granted and Bargained … with all the acquaintances and … thereunto belonging to her the Said Mary Jimoson her Heirs and Assigns for ever and further more we the Said Chief Sachem and Warrior for ourselves over Hers … and administration do by these .. engage x to defined the above granted .. with all the acquaintances unto her the said Mary Jimoson her Heirs and assigns forever Will Warrant and Defend the above granted.. against all the Claims and Demand of all .. whatever in Confirmation whereof we have hereunto set our hands and Seal this in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Seven. Signed Sealed and Delivered in Presents of C. Winny Cha-Williamson Thomas Morris Little Billy + his mark Pollard + his mark hanoi + Haven his mark Raggea + negtigue mark Tommy + Jimmison his mark Corn + Planter his mark howana + see his mark
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Creator: Parish, Jasper, 1767-1836
Date: n.d.
Text: Genius of the Mountain, one much desires you will fix a time, for pay'g a visit to the Court House and determine in what light and shadow the Friend of the Indian, shall be placed, at present it hangs on the right, and next to the Bench, wait'g your Ladyships Commands, I remain at the - "Snuggery" P.S. for this gift, I could say with "Cowper' -"wisdom and judgment join at once in you, -sprightly as youth, as age, consummate too,"For Mrs. Townsend &c...
Show moreGenius of the Mountain, one much desires you will fix a time, for pay'g a visit to the Court House and determine in what light and shadow the Friend of the Indian, shall be placed, at present it hangs on the right, and next to the Bench, wait'g your Ladyships Commands, I remain at the - "Snuggery" P.S. for this gift, I could say with "Cowper' -"wisdom and judgment join at once in you, -sprightly as youth, as age, consummate too,"For Mrs. Townsend &c &c by Mr. Parrish - "Mothers Pet
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Text: Mrs. Grimp

Creator: Harris, T. S.
Date: 1826-02-08
Text: Seneca Mission Feb. 8. To J. Parrish Esqr Dear Sir, This is to inform you that the roll of Blankets &c which were forwarded to the Station for the benefit of the Indian School, has safely come to hand. As you did not particularly mention the mode in which they were forwarded I did not know where or of whom to inquire respecting them. They lay in Mr. Rathbun's baggage-room some weeks I believe before I heard from them. You will please accept this apology, for my not acknowledging...
Show moreSeneca Mission Feb. 8. To J. Parrish Esqr Dear Sir, This is to inform you that the roll of Blankets &c which were forwarded to the Station for the benefit of the Indian School, has safely come to hand. As you did not particularly mention the mode in which they were forwarded I did not know where or of whom to inquire respecting them. They lay in Mr. Rathbun's baggage-room some weeks I believe before I heard from them. You will please accept this apology, for my not acknowledging their reception earlier. Sir, Your obliged friend T. S. Harris J. Parrish Esqr CanandaiguaJasper Parrish Esqr. Canandaigua N. Y.Rev. T. S. Harris letter Feby. 4, 1826
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Date: 1826-07-7
Text: New York July 7th 1826 Annuity Duplicate Jasper Parrish, Esqr. Sub Agent of the United States to the Six Nations of Indians Bot of Cobb & Antis 4 ps White Flannel 184 yds @ 44 1/2 81.42 2 " Yellow do 92 " 30. 27.60 6 " Red do 276 " 39 3/8 108.67 4 " Saved Tist Blue Cloth 77 1/2 84 82.34 6 " " " " do 112 1/2 107 140.63 1 " Blud Mix do 16 2/4 101 33.50 1 " " " do 17 1/2 187 39.37 100 Pair 4 1/2 Point Blanket 201 250.00 8 ps...
Show moreNew York July 7th 1826 Annuity Duplicate Jasper Parrish, Esqr. Sub Agent of the United States to the Six Nations of Indians Bot of Cobb & Antis 4 ps White Flannel 184 yds @ 44 1/2 81.42 2 " Yellow do 92 " 30. 27.60 6 " Red do 276 " 39 3/8 108.67 4 " Saved Tist Blue Cloth 77 1/2 84 82.34 6 " " " " do 112 1/2 107 140.63 1 " Blud Mix do 16 2/4 101 33.50 1 " " " do 17 1/2 187 39.37 100 Pair 4 1/2 Point Blanket 201 250.00 8 ps Light Calico 224 18c 40.52 14 " do 292 14 54.88 40 " American Brown Shirtings 1283 2/4 10 1/2 134.79 29 " " Bleached do 938 2/4 10 3/4 100.91 10 " " " do 313 10 1/2 32.86 20 " " Plaid 813 1/2 13c 105.72 26 " " Stripe 496 3/4 14 69.54 9 " Dowlas 596 15 89.40 12 1/2 doz. Turkey Red HKfs 24/ 37.50 6 Boxes c 12/ 1 do 10/ 1 do 8/ 111.25 1,440.70 New York July 7. 1826 Rec of Jasper Parrish Esqr. Fourteen hundred & forty 70/100 Dollars in full of the above account. Signed duplicates Cobb & Antis$1,440.70 We the Chiefs and Warriors of the Seneca Nation of Indians do acknowledge to have received of the United States by the hands of Jasper Parrish Sub Agent, Fourteen hundred & forty 70/100 Dollars, in goods, agreeable to the within Invoice, being part of our Annuity for the year 1826. Signed Duplicates in presence of Charles F. Coit Thomson S. Harris Buffalo August 22d 1826 Red Jacket Corn Planter Black Snake Young King Col Pollard Big Kettle Saccaresa Chief Warrior Capt Shongo Little Beard John Sky Capt Strong Tall Chief Jim Robinson Blue Eyes White Seneca Onondga PeterNo. 5 Red Jacket & Other Receipt $1440.70 August 22 1826 Annuity Duplicate
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Text: On page 7 there is an error - November 1785 should be November 1780. The letter date which is consistent with his release in 1784 is the date given in "The Story of Captain Jasper Parrish," Buffalo Historical Society, VI, 533, and in the other material in this folder - two articles from the Ontario County Times an unsigned, undated copy of a letter to Mr. Ochs.A brief Narrative of Jasper Parrish who was taken captive by the Indians in the Revolutionary War, and remained a prisoner...
Show moreOn page 7 there is an error - November 1785 should be November 1780. The letter date which is consistent with his release in 1784 is the date given in "The Story of Captain Jasper Parrish," Buffalo Historical Society, VI, 533, and in the other material in this folder - two articles from the Ontario County Times an unsigned, undated copy of a letter to Mr. Ochs.A brief Narrative of Jasper Parrish who was taken captive by the Indians in the Revolutionary War, and remained a prisoner among them six years and eight months. He with his father were captured on the 5th July 1778 by a small party of the Mousie Indians, and were conducted by them up the Delaware River to a place called Cookhouse where they arrived in six days after being taken prisoner. Ten days after there arrival at Cookhouse they were separated by the Indians, his Father being taken from him, to be given up to the British at Fort Niagara where he was surrendered to them, and two years thereafter was exchanged as a prisoner of war and returned to his family. When captured they were about six miles from home and had with them 5 horses which the Indians also took with them. Cookhouse where they were first conducted to, was a small place where eight families of the Mousie tribe of Indians resided. While in this situation Jasper Parrish belonged to a Capt or War Chief of the same tribe by the name of Capt Mounsh who became his master. In a few days after reaching Cookhouse Capt Mounsh left his prisoner in the charge of an Indian family and west off to the West and was gon a long time, during which time the Indians offered no violence to him, who being a boy only eleven years old was permitted by them to ride one of their horses, and was in other respects treated by them with much kindness. After a long time his master Capt Mounsh returned to Cookhouse to receive his prisoner and conduct him to Chemung. While he had been left thus, he was taken very severely sick with the dysentery owing to change of diet and habit, and in this situation the Indians endeavored to relieve him by administering some of their remedies, but he was so afraid they would poison him that he refused at first to take their medicine. At length he consented to take it, and it gavehim immediate relief and in the course of a few days he recovered entirely. It was a black syrup made of roots and herbs. The Indians generally appeared to be friendly to him, and took good care of him; as the same they would frequently say that by & by they would take the Yankee boys scalp accompanied with motions & gesture of taking the scalp. This conduct of the Indians kept him in continual apprehensive until his master Capt Mounsh came on from the Westward to receive him. On the first of October he set out with his prisoner from Chemung,- the first settlement of Indians they come to was on the Big Bendon the Susquehannah River,- they continued on without delay till they reached Chemung where they remained the following Winter. On their arrival at there place and before and before they entered the Indian Village his master and himself were both riding on horse back. Capt Mounsh gave the Indian scalp Holloo very loud which is a long drown sound, the accent on the last a and pronounced like quaga. At this the Indians men and boys came running from every part of the village to the center. This was a very noted place to make their prisoners run the gantlet. As soon as they came to the center of the Village the Indians set up a horrid yell, and came running to Capt Mounsh and his prisoner as they were riding and getting hold of Jasper tore him with great violence from his horse on to the ground and like so many tigers began to beat him with clubs, whips and handles of tomahawk. At length and after he had received a terrible beating, his master interfered, and spoke very loud to them in the Mousie language and said "that is enough". At this they all stopped beating him, and after a short time he was able to get up off the ground and stand up, where then he was conducted to an Indian hut or cabin, where he remained until the next day being completelycovered with black and blue bruises. In a few days after he was sold by his master at this place to a Delaware Indian family, who resided on the south side of the Tioga River, and who paid for him the sum of Twenty dollars. Immediately after he was sold his former master left that place and went West Fort Niagara, where in a drunken frolic he was stabbed and killed by another Indian. Jasper remained with the Delaware family on the Tioga River during the winter and spring of 1779. During the winter he was very scanty class, and his suffering from both cold and hunger were very great, the winter being very long and intensely cold. His food was the same as the Indian family and constituted of venison, wolf, dog, fox and muskrat meat, and some wild fowls. Very little corn was to be found at this among the Indians and salt was not to be had, and there were no white People short of Niagara to whom they could apply for relief. During the winter he was compelled by the Indians with two Indian boys (the snow being very deep) to go down the River a distance of 30 rods, then to throw off their blankets and jumped into the River through a hole in the ice and then putting on these Blankets to return to the cabin. This was done and the Indians told him to make him tough so that he might stand the cold weather without feeling it so much. This he was obliged to go through with repeatedly in the coldest weather. When the spring opened and the warm weather came on, he with the Indians was accustomed to go a hunting, fishing, and a digging ground nuts to procure something to support themselves, and continued this mode of living until the middle of Summer; when he and three Indians went up the River Tioga to a place called Chimney Narrows on a hunting trip for a few days. While encamped here near the River the Indians killed several deer. In three or four day after they arrivedhere the Indians got out of lead, and one evening as they were sitting by the fire, one of them remarked that he would get some tomorrow. Parrish thought it was very strange that he should be able to obtain lead in one day when there were no white people of who they could procure it nearer than Niagara. However the next morning the three Indians took their guns and went off as usual as he supposed hunting. In the afternoon the Indian who spoke of getting lead returned with about a peck of lead ore tied up in his blanket, droped it down by the fire and directed Parrish to make up a large fire with dry wood which he did in a few minutes. The Indian placed the ore on top of the fire and scraped away the ashes under the fire so as to give a place for the lead to run in as it melted, then with an iron ladle he dipped up the lead and poured it on to pieces of bark is it melted till the whole was separated from the cross. Parrish thought that he must have obtained from 5 to 12 lbs of pure lead. Three days after the Indians returned with him to Chemung. By this time Parrish had been a captive with the Indians about one year during which time he had seldom heard the english language spoken. He had acquired enough of the language to understand their conversation very well and could speak it very well so as to be understood by them. Parrish remained at this place with the Indian family that bought him until the last of August 1779 at which time Genl Sullivan was marching with this army into the Indian country to chastise them for their many enormities. The Indians were collecting a large force at Newtown near K Imyra to attack him, and selected a point about 4 miles below Newtown where they intended to make the contemplated stand and to surprise him if possible while he was advancing. The Indians had placed the baggage squaws and provisions about 1 mile back from where theywere laying in wait for Sullivan, and had gather together a large war party among whom were some few whites and were very confident of success. Soon after the battle commenced the Indians found that they could not stand their ground, as Sullivan was making an attempt to surround them and they immediately despatched a runner to the place where the squaws baggage and prisoners were left directions for them to pack up and retreat up the River to Painted Post. Parrish was left with the squaws and baggage, who together with a number of young Indians immediately moved off up the River. The Indians being hard pressed soon retreated from the battle ground, and next day overtook them at Painted Post. The party of Indians who had charge of Parrish immediately took up their line of march westward by the way of Bath, Genesseo, Tonawanda and so on to Fort Niagara then a British Post. Here they remained till late in the fall, furnished with salt provision by the British, which the Indians being unaccustomed to occasioned a great deal of disease and death among them. While they were making very short stops until they arrived there. In a very short time afterwards, the whole of the six Nations of Indians were encamped on the plain around the Fort. encamped near the Fort they had a general drunken frolic during which one Indian killed another; upon this this Indian law of retaliation was resorted to by the friends of the dead Indian and in less than an hour afterwards they became so infuriated that five Indians were laying dead before the Chiefs could restrain their Warriors. While at Fort Niagara with the Delaware family Parrish understood the British were offering a guinea bounty for every Yankee scalp that was taken and brought in by the Indians. He was afterwards informed that they offered the above bounty for the purpose ofgetting the indians to disperse in small war parties on the frontier of the States, as they were becoming very troublesome at Fort NIagara. Parrish was with them in camp at this place about six weeks. At a certain time a number of the Indians belong to the same family as his master got drunk in the evening, two of the drunken Indians were left alone with Parrish at the camp and were sitting on the side of the fire opposite to him they soon fell into conversation how they could procure some more rum; After a short time one of them observed to the other, that they would kill the young Yankee, and take his scalp to the Fort, and sell it and then would be able to buy some more rum. The young Yankee understood al the conversation and put himself on his guard in case they should make any attempt against him. In a few minutes one of the Indians drew a long half burned brand from the fire, and hurled it at Parrish's head; But he being on the alert, dodged the brand and sprang up and ran out into the bushes which surrounded the encampment. The Indians attempted to follow him, but being drunk and the night dark, Parrish escaped from them keeping away till next morning when the Indians become - he returned again to camp. While he was in Camp with the Indians near Niagara five died out of this masters family including his wife. One day Parrish's Indian master took him into Fort Niagara where he offered to sell him to the White People, none of whom appeared willing to purchase him. At length his master met with a large fine portly looking Mohawk Indian by the name of Capt David Hill who bought him off his Delaware master for the sum of Twenty dollars without any hesitation. Capt Hill was then living on the plain immediately below and adjoining the fort. He led Parrish immediately away and conducted him to his home or cabin, where having arrived Çapt David said to him in English "this is your home; you must stay here". His reflections were not very pleasant on his change of masters; after becoming well acquainted with the Delaware language, to be under the necessity of acquiring a new one the Mohawk differing entirely from the Delaware and to make new acquaintances and friends after being attached as he did to his Delaware master. The exchange of masters proved however to be a very fortunate and happy. Parrish resided with Capt David Hill's family five years and upwards, during all which they furnished him with the necessary Indian clothing and with abundant of comfortable food. He passed all that time in traveling with the Indians and in hunting and fishing and working, but they never compelled him to do any hard work or any thing beyond his ability or endurance. In the month of November 1786 the Chiefs of the Six Nations held a general council with the British at Fort Niagara. At this Council Capt David took his prisoner into it, and into the midst of the assembled Chiefs, and in the most formal & public manner had him adopted into his family as a son. He placed a large belt of wampum around his neck; then an old chief took him by the hand, and made a long speech such as is customary among the Indians on similar occasions. He spoke with much dignity and solemnity, often interrupted by the other chiefs with exclamations of Nahoe which is a mark of attention and approbation. After the speech was concluded the Chiefs arose, and came forward and shook hands with the adopted Prisoner and the ceremony closed. His Indian father then came ot him, and desired him to return home During the following winter he remained with his Indian Father at Fort Niagara. In the following month of May Capt David Hiil, and the Mohawk Indians removed to and made a settlement at a point higher up the Niagara River at a place now known as Lewiston. Here Parrish resided among the Mohawks in the family of his Indian father and mother until the close of the Revolutionary War. During this long time he was frequently with Capt Hill traveling among other tribes and nations of Indians; invariably receiving at all times from his adopted Father's family, and from other Indians among whom they sojourned, and was kindly treated and his wants attended to, and not infrequently many acts of friendship and favor were bestowed by them upon him, during his captivity among them. In September 1784 a Treaty of peace between the United States and the Six Nations of Indians was held at Fort Stanwix (now Rome in Onsida County) at which the Indians agreed to deliver up all prisoners captured and destined among them, belonging to, or captured in the United States. There were at this time among the Six Nations ninety three white prisoners, Parrish among the numbers. On the 29th day of November 1784 he left Lewiston accompanied by the Indians to be surrendered at Fort Stanwix. Immediately afterwards he set out on his return to his own family and friends whom he had - heard from or of during his long captivity among the Indians; but whom he at length found residing in Goshen in Orange County, N. Y. He had heard the English language so rarely, and been so totally unaccustomed to speak it himself during so long a time, that he could with difficulty make himself understood speaking it very brokenly. He was destitute of education, and was able to devote but very little time and attention to school on his return home, receiving only nine month schooling. With that exception he was wholly self taught and educated from his after reading and intercourse with the world. In November 1790, he was requested by Timothy Pickering commissioner on the part of Congress to act as Interpreter between the Seneca Nation of Indians and the Government at a Treaty held at that time at Tioga Point. He was called upon again by the same Commissioner to act as Interpreter at another Treaty at Newton Point (near Elmyra) in July 1791. This treaty was held with the Six Nations of Indians. Here he gained a good deal of commendation and applause from the Commissioner and Indians for the very accurate and faithful manner in which he rendered the Indian language. In April 1792 he was appointed by the President Washington as a standing interpreter for the Six Nations of Indians and was instructed to reside at Canandarque under the directions and instructions of Genl Israel Chapin then agent to the Six Nations. In November 1794 another Treaty was held with the Six Nations at Canandaigua, the Hon. T. Pickering presiding as Commissioner on the part of the U. S. where again he was the principal Interpreter. This Treaty now remains as the governing treaty between the U. S. and the Six Nations of Indians to the present time 1822. After serving as Interpreter 13 years he was appointed Sub Agent and Interpreter by the President of the U. S. on the 15th day of February 1803; which two appointments he held through all the successive administrations of the Government down to the second term of Genl Jackson, transacting all kind of business between the U. S. and the Six Nations and also between the State of New York and the Indians. He has also officiated as Interpreter and been present at very many other Treaties during his term of Office. He was very desirous to civilize the Indians by inculcating among them habits of industry and instructing them how to cultivate their land, and by endeavoring to impress them with the use of property and the value of time. In his to effect this object, he has found a friendly disposition among the Oneidas and Tuscarora tribes as among the Senecas
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Creator: Parish, Jasper, 1767-1836
Date: 1812-07-13_1912-12-2
Text: The United States Dr to Jasper Parrish 1812 For my Extra traveling expences incurred since the declaration of War, by the order and under the directions of Erastus Granger, Esq: the Indian Agent resident at Buffaloe, & pursuant to the instructions of the Secretary of War, as p his letter to Mr. Granger dated 15 July 1812 ----------viz.----------- July 13 To Travelling Expences to & from Buffaloe $6.25 " Expences at Buffaloe as p Raphael Cook's Recepit of 9 July 1812 ------- ...
Show moreThe United States Dr to Jasper Parrish 1812 For my Extra traveling expences incurred since the declaration of War, by the order and under the directions of Erastus Granger, Esq: the Indian Agent resident at Buffaloe, & pursuant to the instructions of the Secretary of War, as p his letter to Mr. Granger dated 15 July 1812 ----------viz.----------- July 13 To Travelling Expences to & from Buffaloe $6.25 " Expences at Buffaloe as p Raphael Cook's Recepit of 9 July 1812 ------- $5.81 " do. while there & among the Indians 4.44 10.25 " the services of my Horse at the same time 13 days 4/ - - - - - - 6.50 23 " Travelling Exps to & from Onondaga, including Stage Fare - - - - - 7.94 Sep. 10 " do. to & from Buffaloe - - - - - - 5.25 " Exps. while there, as p R. Cooks Rect 9 5 Sep. 1812 - - - - - - - - $12.25 " do. while there & among the Indians - - - - - - 8.25 20.50 " the Service of my horse at the same time 18 days - - - - 9.00 Oct. 22 " Travelling Exps. to & from Buffaloe - - - - - - 3.50 " Stage Fare - - - to & from do - - - - - - - 10.-- " Exps. while there as p Cooks Rect of 20 Oct. - - - - - $35.372 " do. while there & among the Indians - 5.-- 40.372 Nov. 13 " Travelling Exps to & from Oneida & Onondaga to invite the Indians to a Council at Buffaloe - - - - - - - - - - - 8.88 " Stage Fare to & from do - - - - - - - - - - - - 9.50 Dec. 2 " Travelling Exps. to & from Buffaloe - - - - - 7.38 " Exps. while there as p R. Cooks Rect 30 Nov. - - - - - $30.-- " do while there & among the Indians - - 5.75 35.75 " the Services of my horse for 21 Days - - - 4/ - 10.50 191.572 Canandaigua 15 July 1813 (Copy)Copy of my c/c with the U. S. for Extra Exps. income in 1812
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Date: 1800-11-27
Text: J. Parish Capt. 2d. Sq. 5th. Div.The People of the State of New-York, By the Grace of GOD, Free and Independent: To Jasper Parish Gentleman Greeting. We, reposing especial trust and confidence, as well in your patriotism, conduct and loyalty, as in your valor and readiness to do us good and faithful service, HAVE appointed and constituted, and by these presents, DO appoint and constitute you the said Jasper Parish Captain of a Troop in the second Squadron of Cavalry, in the Fifth Division of...
Show moreJ. Parish Capt. 2d. Sq. 5th. Div.The People of the State of New-York, By the Grace of GOD, Free and Independent: To Jasper Parish Gentleman Greeting. We, reposing especial trust and confidence, as well in your patriotism, conduct and loyalty, as in your valor and readiness to do us good and faithful service, HAVE appointed and constituted, and by these presents, DO appoint and constitute you the said Jasper Parish Captain of a Troop in the second Squadron of Cavalry, in the Fifth Division of the Militia of this State You Are therefore, to take the said Troop into your charge and care, as Captain thereof, and duly to exercise the Officers and Soldiers of that Troop in Arms, who are hereby commanded to obey you as their Captain and you are also to observe and follow such orders and directions, as you shall from time to time receive from our General and Commander and Chief of the Militia of our said State, or any other your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you; and for so doing, this shall be your commission, for and during our good pleasure, to be signified by our Council of Appointment. In Testimony whereof, we have caused our seal for military commissions to be hereunto affixed. Witness, our trusty and well-beloved John Jay Esquire, Governor of our State of New-York, General and Commander in Chief of all the Militia, and Admiral of the Navy of the fame, by and with the advice and consent of our said Council of Appointment, at Our City of New York the Second day of April in the Year offer Lord, one thousand Eight hundred and in the twenty-fifth Year of our Independence. Passed the Secretary's Office, the 27th day of November 1800. Daniel Hale, Secretary.
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Creator: Johnston, John
Date: 1800-07-19
Text: Dear Sir Mr. Morris has been so good as take the trouble of delivering to you a standard, which I beg you will present to the troop in my name, as a mark of the esteem I entertain for the members composing it. In the usual course of promotion I was appointed last winter to the command of the Troop; but the distance of my residence from the usual place of meeting and from the body of theTroopers will reorder it inconvenient for me to attend as frequently as I could wish, and I therefore intend...
Show moreDear Sir Mr. Morris has been so good as take the trouble of delivering to you a standard, which I beg you will present to the troop in my name, as a mark of the esteem I entertain for the members composing it. In the usual course of promotion I was appointed last winter to the command of the Troop; but the distance of my residence from the usual place of meeting and from the body of theTroopers will reorder it inconvenient for me to attend as frequently as I could wish, and I therefore intend next winter to resign my commission. I am Dear Sir Your most obed. humble serv. J. Johnson John Johnson Letter Mr. Parrish CanadauguaJohn Johnson Letter Mr. Parrish Canadaugua
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Creator: Granger, Erastus
Date: 1812-10-24
Text: Buffalo 24th Oct. 1812 Dear Sir, Things remain pretty much as when you left here. - I have this evening recd from the Secy of War a Speech sent from a pretended Council of Indians held at Onondago - Also a letter from Ephriam Webster who signs himself Indian Agent, and interpreter under the State of New York - the Originals are sent back to me. - Websters letter is backed by Jasper Hopper who signs as Clerk of the County - - Thads. Patchen and Polaski King have put their names to the speech...
Show moreBuffalo 24th Oct. 1812 Dear Sir, Things remain pretty much as when you left here. - I have this evening recd from the Secy of War a Speech sent from a pretended Council of Indians held at Onondago - Also a letter from Ephriam Webster who signs himself Indian Agent, and interpreter under the State of New York - the Originals are sent back to me. - Websters letter is backed by Jasper Hopper who signs as Clerk of the County - - Thads. Patchen and Polaski King have put their names to the speech Hopper certifies that full faith an credit are due to Websters cuts All the papers are addressed to the President, and Mr. Munroe.The Speech is headed as being from a Delegation of the Oneidas, Onondagas, Stockbridge, Tuscararas, and Senecas, held at their ancient Council fire at Onondaga. - They complain, that a few of the Indians got together at this place, and were invited to take up the hatched - this they say is contra to the advice of Genl Washington and contra to the Wishes of their great Prophet, who attended their Council. - - - - I believe some White people In this County had a hand in it. I wish you to proceed immediately to the Eastward, and invite all the Young Warriors, of the Oneidas and Oondagas to a Council at this place - I mean those who have arms - let them come soon. It is necessary the Indiansshould be united in something You can state the Indians have not been invited to take up arms. I shall send for the Indians tomorrow - the Propet is here on his return - he did not call on me or Jones - If I can see him before he goes home, I shall tell him to stay at Allegany till the War is over. The Secy has directed me to enquire into this business, and report to him. therefore I want you to make all the enquiry possible respecting this Singular Council and let me know. - If any of the Stockbridge have a wish to attend this great Council let them come and bring arms. Yours E. GrangerE. Granger letter Oct. 24, 1812
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Creator: Parish, Jasper, 1767-1836
Date: 1828-01-01
Text: Agency of the U. S. to the Six Nations of Indians - Canandaigua 1 Jany 1828 Sir, I have received your letter of the 20th ult. informing me of some disorderly conduct of the St Regis Indians, which has become a subject of complaint from the ministry of his Brittanic Majesty residing at Washington. - I shall give prompt attention to this subject by repairing to that Tillage in person, if my health will permit, and if not, I will send an official Agent who shall make diligent enquiry into the...
Show moreAgency of the U. S. to the Six Nations of Indians - Canandaigua 1 Jany 1828 Sir, I have received your letter of the 20th ult. informing me of some disorderly conduct of the St Regis Indians, which has become a subject of complaint from the ministry of his Brittanic Majesty residing at Washington. - I shall give prompt attention to this subject by repairing to that Tillage in person, if my health will permit, and if not, I will send an official Agent who shall make diligent enquiry into the cause of the complaints, and to faithfully warn them of the consequences of any disorderly conduct, and in due time I will make report to your department I am Sir, very respectfully Your mo. obdt. Srv Jasper Parrish Sub Agent Thoms L. McKinny, Esq. Indian Office Washington
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Date: 1808-09-05
Text: No. of Onondagos at Onondaga grate & small - 1 6 8 - - Septem 5th 1808 Ephraim Webster

Creator: Six Nations
Date: 1815-02-20
Text: A Communication from a Deputation of the Six Nations to the Secretary of War of the United States Brother, We are chiefs, and a Deputation, of the Six Nations, for the purpose of making some communications to the Secretary of War, on the part of our respective Nations. Brother, We would remind you of a Treaty formerly made between the Government of the United States and the Six Nations: this Treaty was made about twenty years since by a Commissioner appointed by our Father the President of...
Show moreA Communication from a Deputation of the Six Nations to the Secretary of War of the United States Brother, We are chiefs, and a Deputation, of the Six Nations, for the purpose of making some communications to the Secretary of War, on the part of our respective Nations. Brother, We would remind you of a Treaty formerly made between the Government of the United States and the Six Nations: this Treaty was made about twenty years since by a Commissioner appointed by our Father the President of the United States, for that purpose: namely by the Honorable Timothy Pickering. Since that Treaty the terms of it have been faithfully adhered to, both by the Citizens of the United States and by our Nations; in consequence of which, our Friendship has remained unbroken. Brother, About six years since, a Deputation of our Nations had an interview with our Father the President of the United States, at a time when differences between the Government of the United States and that of Great Britain were a threatening aspect. - That Deputation was then assured by the President, that if the Six Nations would remain tranquil and not attempt to interfere in any manner whatever in the threatened altercations, they should be regularly furnished, on the part of the United States with the same quantity of Goods of various descriptions, as they were promised by the Treaty and had been accustomed to receive;- but they must now represent that this engagement on the part of the United States, has not been fulfilled: - soon after the time above alluded to, the quantity of goods the received by way of Annuity, was greatly diminished, - and after the War actually commenced, it has been reduced to half the usual quantity, or less; - which has caused them great distress. On enquiry after the cause of this failure, in an essential part of the engagement of the Government of the United States, they have been given to understand that it was caused by the scarcity and high price of the articles specifically promised to them. Now, this is contrary to their understanding of existing Treaties; because as the articles to be furnished by the Untied States as a portion of the annuity due to the Six Nations, were such as were considered necessary to their comfort & convenience, so the quantity and not the price of the commodities, was the great consideration with them in their Treaty before mentioned. Brother, We flatter ourselves that if this fair statement of a grievance of which we think we have just reason to complain, was duly represented to our Father, the President of the United States, he would readily cause the deficiency to be made up to our Nation for the period of three years last past; which is of much importance to them, although a trivial consideration for the United States; and further, that the promised supply of Goods may be regularly furnished in the future. - Brother, We wish for some information relative to the Capital formerly held in the Bank of the United States for account of the Seneca Nation: Our Father, the President, had the control and direction of those Funds for its benefit. We have been told that on the dissolution of that Bank, our Father the President past that portion of the Stock into the Public Funds, as a Loan to the United States;- but it is found that the amount they receive for the use of it, annually, is not so great as heretofore when the Bank was in operation: - Our Brethren of the Seneca Nation do not perfectly comprehend why their income is thus diminished, and wish to be informed. Brother, this is all we have to say at present upon these subjects. Colonel Pollard Seneca Long Board Tuscarora Cole Onandaga Schuyler Oneida Strong Seneca Washington City, D. C. 20th Feb 1815. Jasper Parrish Sub Agent & InterpreterCole Onandaga Schuyler Oneida Strong Seneca Washington City, D. C. 20th Feb 1815. Jasper Parrish Sub Agent & Interpreter
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Creator: Denniston, Isaac
Date: n.d.
Text: Yours with respect Isaac Denniston

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