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Last name Simmons
First name Henry
Display name Henry Simmons
Other names Henry Symmons
Birth date 1768
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends
Bio notes Son of Henry and Mary SImmons of Middletown Monthly Meeting. Travelled to visit Indians with John Pierce and James Cooper in 1796; travelled in 1798 with Joel Swayne and Halliday Jackson to reside with Indians at Genesinguhta & instruct them. Married Rachel Preston at New Garden in 1800.

Mentioned in:

Halliday Jackson's Book [of Corrrespondence], Genesinguhta, 1798-1800

Isaac Coates Journal of Journeys to the Indian Country

Journal of a Visit to the Seneca Indians, 1796, by James Cooper of Woodbury, N.J.

Joseph Clark's Account of a Journey to the Indian Country, 1797

John Peirce Notes, on a visit to Several Tribes of Indians, 1796

Joshua Sharpless's Journal Into Indian Country, 1798

Jonathan Thomas His Book 1798

Letter from Henry Simmons to Israel Chapin

Account of I. Coates, J. Sharpless, & J. Pierce, visits to Indian Reservation, NY

A series of letters written on a Journey to the Oneida, Onondago, and Cayuga Tribes of the Five Nations, by Joseph Sansom

Joel Swayne Diary