1. | Title: | Halliday Jackson Journal (1798-1799) | |
Dates: | 1798 - 1799 | ||
Extent: | 1 volume | ||
Locations: | Allegany | Bedford | Berlin | Buffalo | Fort Erie | Niagara Falls | Pittsburgh | Redstone Township | Shippensburg | Strasburg | Warren | York | ||
Abstract: | In a journal documenting his residence with the Seneca Nation in New York, Pennsylvania Quaker Halliday Jackson offers a detailed, daily account of his missionary life, travels, and Seneca customs at the turn of the nineteenth century (1798-99). Jackson offers numerous accounts of land, cultivation, and development, including early accounts of Pittsburg (p.8-9), a Seneca settlement (19), and Niagara Falls (163-64). Native American studies scholars may gravitate to the volume's descriptions of Seneca food preparation (17), marriage (148-9), alcohol consumption (14, 124-125), land deeds (53-54, 75), Quaker diplomacy (23-24, 32-33), and increasingly strained relations with backcountry settlers (126, 131-133, 146-47, 178-79), many of which are voiced by the Seneca themselves and transcribed by Jackson at council meetings. This volume also features entries that will interest scholars researching the early national period, including the Bank of the United States (75), the yellow fever epidemic (74, 114-15), and the death of George Washington (176). | ||
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A similar printed version of the journal, edited by Anthony F.C. Wallace, was published in Pennsylvania History in 1952. | |||
In a journal documenting his residence with the Seneca Nation in New York, Pennsylvania Quaker Halliday Jackson offers a detailed, daily account of his missionary life, travels, and Seneca customs at the turn of the nineteenth century (1798-99). Jackson offers numerous accounts of land, cultivation, and development, including early accounts of Pittsburg (p.8-9), a Seneca settlement (19), and Niagara Falls (163-64). Native American studies scholars may gravitate to the volume's descriptions of Seneca food preparation (17), marriage (148-9), alcohol consumption (14, 124-125), land deeds (53-54, 75), Quaker diplomacy (23-24, 32-33), and increasingly strained relations with backcountry settlers (126, 131-133, 146-47, 178-79), many of which are voiced by the Seneca themselves and transcribed by Jackson at council meetings. This volume also features entries that will interest scholars researching the early national period, including the Bank of the United States (75), the yellow fever epidemic (74, 114-15), and the death of George Washington (176). View Full Description in New WindowA similar printed version of the journal, edited by Anthony F.C. Wallace, was published in Pennsylvania History in 1952. | |||
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Subjects: | Agriculture. | Bank of the United States (1791-1811) | Diaries. | Indians of North America--Missions. | Missionaries. | Native America | Oneida Indians. | Race. | Religion. | Seneca Indians. | Society of Friends--Missions. | Society of Friends. | Temperance. | Travel. | United States--Civilization--1783-1865. | Washington, George, 1732-1799. | Yellow fever. | ||
Collection: | Some account of my journey to the Seneca Nation of Indians, and residence amongst that people, 1798-1799 (Mss.970.3.J25) | ||
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