OLAC Record oai:indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org:9124

Metadata
Title:		Delaware materials, American Philosophical Society Archives
Contributor:		Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
		Henry, Mathew Schropp, 1790-1862
		Edwards, Howard, 1833-1925?
		Henry, Joseph J.
		Winsor, Henry
		Murray, Nicholas, 1802-1861
		Brickenstein, H. A.
		Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823
		Society of the United Brethren for Propagating the Gospel Among the Heathen
		Russell, Jonathan, 1771-1832
Date:		1800-1893
Description:		Items relating to Delaware materials at the American Philosophical Society. Topics include requests for materials (a loan of a map of the "Indian Walk," or Walking Purchase, 1737; the Society of the United Brethren for Propagating the Gospel Among the Heathens wants the return of documents deposited by the Brethren for Heckewelder as listed in the Transactions of the Historical and Literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society 1); requests for information (on David Zeisberger as a missionary to the Indians); of materials (Zeisberger's Delaware grammar; John G. E. Heckewelder's paper on Personal names; Heckewelder's edits in case of a second edition of his Account of the Indian nations (1819)); donated materials (Roth's "Life of Christ" in Delaware, #1176; a French translation of Heckewelder's account done by Chevalier John Du Ponceau; materials from Heckwelder himself; documents relating to the Paxton boys from Samuel Fisher; authentic extracts of official Swedish papers relative to their settlements in America as well as translations of extracts of Acrelius (1759)); Heckewelder's Delaware grammar and work in general; a list of botanical names with equivalents in Delaware, Onondaga, and occasionally Munsee; Matthew S. Henry's work on a dictionary of Place names (#1164) and his comparison of Heckwelder and Rev. Jesse Vogler; and Peter S. du Ponceau's own work on Native languages (mentions Delaware, Arawak, Natchez, Yuchi, Ojibwe, and Mahican) and his work for the APS. Other individuals mentioned include Robert M. Patterson, Zaccheus Collins, Mathew Carey, Daniel G. Brinton, Sir William Johnson, Severin Lorich, Charles Pickering, Samuel S. Haldeman, Rev. der Schweinitz, Usher Parsons, and John Vaughan.
Extent:		21 items
Identifier:		https://indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org/entry/9124
Language:		Onondaga
		Munsee
		English
		Delaware
Language (ISO639):		ono
		umu
		eng
		del
Subject:		Delaware
		Onondaga
		Munsee
		Haudenosaunee
		Arawak
		Natchez
		Yuchi
		Ojibwe
		Mahican
		Linguistics
		Missions
		Pennsylvania--History
		Place names
Type:		Correspondence
		Reports
		Memoranda
Type (DCMI):		Text
Type (OLAC):		lexicon
OLAC Info
Archive:		Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
GetRecord:		Pre-generated XML file
OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org:9124
DateStamp:		2020-03-02
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844; Henry, Mathew Schropp, 1790-1862; Edwards, Howard, 1833-1925?; Henry, Joseph J.; Winsor, Henry; Murray, Nicholas, 1802-1861; Brickenstein, H. A.; Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823; Society of the United Brethren for Propagating the Gospel Among the Heathen; Russell, Jonathan, 1771-1832. 1800-1893. Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society.
Terms:		area_Americas area_Europe country_CA country_GB dcmi_Text iso639_del iso639_eng iso639_ono iso639_umu olac_lexicon