MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Title:
Dates:
1684, 1733-1771
Abstract:
An early settler and prominent citizen in the Moravian heartland near Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Timothy Horsfield was named justice of the peace when Northampton County was formed out of Bucks in 1752, and was one of those given responsibility for the defence of the local white and Christian Indian populations during the French and Indian War.
The Horsfield Papers offer a window onto the tumultuous history of northeastern Pennsylvania during the 1750s and 1760s. Comprised largely of correspondence and related documents between Horsfield, William Parsons, and provincial and military authorities, the collection includes important information on the Native tribes' actions (previously described as "Indian assaults") in the region in 1756 and 1757 and the military and diplomatic response of settlers.
Call #:
Mss.974.8.H78
Extent:
0.5 Linear feet
Subjects:
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Colonial Politics | Delaware Indians | Diplomatic History | Diplomatic Material | General Correspondence | Government Affairs | Horsfield, Timothy, 1708-1773 | Indians of North America -- Pennsylvania -- Government relations -- To 1789 | Iroquois Indians | Maps | Miami Indians | Military History | Military Records | Moravian Indians | Moravians -- Pennsylvania -- History | Native America | Official Government Documents and Records | Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca.1600-1775 | Pennsylvania History | Peters, Richard, 1704-1776 | Political Correspondence | Seven Years' War | Shippen, Edward, circa 1703-1781 | Teedyuscung, ca. 1700-1763 | United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763