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Letter Brooklyn Heights, N.Y. to My Dear Mr. Brewster, 1863 Nov. 14

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Open book Letter Brooklyn Heights, N.Y. to My Dear Mr. Brewster, 1863 Nov. 14

Title Letter Brooklyn Heights, N.Y. to My Dear Mr. Brewster, 1863 Nov. 14

Creator Merian, G., fl. 1863

Date 1863

Place New York (State), New York (State)--New York, New York (State)--Oneida Castle

Language English

Subjects Indians of North America, Oneida Indians, Onondaga Indians, Six Nations

Description Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)
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Summary Letter written on Nov. 14, 1863 from Brooklyn Heights, N.Y. by G. Merian to Mr. Brewster. In this anecdotal letter Merian mentions several historical events regarding the Oneida Indians and Onondaga Indians of New York, Oneida Chief Skenandoah, New York politician Azariah C. Flagg, and some descendants of Daniel Webster. Merian also includes some information about Eleazar Williams, an Indian missionary, who erroneously claimed in 1853 to be Louis XVII, Dauphin of France.

Extent 1 item (3 leaves) ; 27 cm

Format Correspondence, Manuscripts

User-Contributed Transcription Brooklyn Heights, [[N.YK.?]] Saturday AM Nov 14 1863
My Dear Mr Brewster
I have had for a guest a Chief of the Oneida's. He left yesterday for his home at Oneida Castle. He was a companion of the Rev Eleazer Williams, supposed to have been the lost Dauphin of France. Inquire if he knew the reputed Indian mother of Rev Mr Williams - he said he did not know his reputed or adopted mother but Mr Williams was in the family of Old Chief John Scanadoah of the Oneidas. His residence with that Chief is a very interesting fact of which I was not before aware. A few years since Old Chief Scanadoah was at Albany - on his way ( home) to Green Bay - his daughter and two grandchildren were with him. One the grandchildren died, and the other was sick and a kind lady of the Albany procured the means to enable them to bury the dead grandchild.
Mr Scanadoah was then at Albany and wrote to me in reference to their destitute condition and I immediately made application to the Commissioner of the Indian Affairs at Washington for relief - he replied there is no appropriation to enable him to give relief. A Young Son of Mr Peter Lorrillard of New York immediately provided the means - doing what the Government of the US neglected to do - and a Gentleman at Albany, since [[passed?]] to a higher sphere, took charge of the motion and obt[[ained]]

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Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection

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Call Number Ayer MS 598

BibID 144414

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2535px × 3163px 22.98 MB

Filename 991444148805867_Ayer_MS_598_00001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11ICAD