hv_sansomj_letters_1796_003

A Series of letters written on a Journey to the Oneida, Onondago, and Cayuga Tribes of the Five Nations, including the Brothertons, Stockbridges, and some of the Tuscaroras, settled upon the ONEIDA RESERVATION; undertaken by iah Rowland, James Cooper, John Pierce, and Joseph Sansom, mainly for the settling of Taylor, Henry Simmons Junior, and Enoch Walker at a Tract of Land. the said Reservation originally about twenty miles west north west of Albany, in the State of New York; for the purpose of attempting the gradual Improvement and Civilization of the INDIANS: in the Summer of the year 1796. er the Direction of a Committee of the Yearly Meeting of Friends. Pennsylvania, &;c.