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Thomas Huntington Letters
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Finding aid created by: MRC
Date: 3 Mar 2015
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Finding aid created by: MRC
Date: 3 Mar 2015
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Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | Huntington, Thomas, 1745-1835. |
| Title: | Thomas Huntington Letters |
| Dates: | 1769 |
| Quantity: | 1 folder (SC) |
| Abstract: | Letter and letter fragment from Thomas Huntington concerning his mission to the Oneida Indians. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center |
Thomas Huntington (1745-1835) was an American physician, merchant, and (briefly) missionary to the Six Nations in Central New York. The Six Nations, also known as the Iroquois Confederacy, are a large and historically important confederacy of six Native American tribes of the northeastern United States: the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora nations.
The Thomas Huntington Letters consists of a manuscript letter dated 14 June 1769 (and an undated fragment of another letter) from Thomas Huntington presumably to his cousin Rev. Eleazar Wheelock concerning his mission to the Oneida Indians. The collection also includes modern photocopies of supplementary reference material about Huntington, Wheelock, and Samuel Kirkland.
Chronological.
Access Restrictions:
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Use Restrictions:
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Persons
Huntington, Thomas, 1745-1835.
Wheelock, Eleazar, 1711-1779.
Corporate Bodies
Iroquois Indians -- Missions.
Oneida Indians -- Missions.
Six Nations -- Missions.
Subjects
Indians of North America -- Missions.
Missionaries -- New York (State)
Places
New York (State) -- History.
Genres and Forms
Correspondence.
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Thomas Huntington Letters,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Purchase, 2015.
Correspondence
| Correspondence | |||||||||||
| SC 738 | Miscellaneous 1769 | ||||||||||