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Open book Legal documents ca. 1800-1807

Title Legal documents ca. 1800-1807

Creator Gunn, Moses

Date 1800-1807

Place Northwest, Old

Language English

Subjects Dakota Indians, Indian land transfers, Land grants, Legal documents

Description Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)
Formerly known as Ayer MS 143a.
Endorsement on paper cover: Moses Gunn's papers Carver Land.
1775 copy of the 1767 grant in Jonathan Carver's hand is in the Whitworth Papers at the Clements Library, Ann Arbor, Mich., and is published in facsimile in John Parker, "New Light on Jonathan Carver," The American Magazine and Historical Chronicle, 2 (Spring-Summer 1986), p. 9.
For more information, consult the Special Collections Info. File.

Summary Legal documents regarding the prosecution of the claim of Carver heirs Moses and Henry Gunn of Montague, Hampshire County, Mass., to a portion of the Carver land grant. Included are a ca. 1800 copy of the original land grant, and agreements and bonds, 1805-1807, outlining the responsibilities of Samuel Peters, a Connecticut clergyman turned speculator, and Samuel Harrison of Vermont, agent for the Carver heirs, in obtaining ratification of the claim with the U.S. Congress and the Sioux Indians. Also specified are the portions of the grant each party would receive.

Biographical/Historical Note Jonathan Carver heir and claimant, along with relatives and others, to a huge tract of land in Wisconsin and Minnesota supposed to have been granted to Carver by the Naudowessie or Western Sioux at the great cave of the upper Mississippi, May 1, 1767. The original grant has never been located, although a 1775 copy in Carver's hand is extant, and was not made public until a year after his death, when it was mentioned in John Coakley Lettsom's introduction to the 1781 edition of the Travels. Extensive efforts by agents of the Carver heirs and speculators to legitimize and profit from the grant came to naught when the U.S. Congress denied its validity in 1825.

Extent 3 items (1 folder) ; 33 cm or smaller + paper cover sheet.

Format Agreements, Land grants, Manuscripts, American

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

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Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Call Number Ayer MS 3035

BibID 128605

Size 2382px × 3833px 26.15 MB

IIIF Resource Type Canvas

File Created 11/02/2013

Filename 991286058805867_Ayer_MS_3035_00001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11HYSI

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