Speech on behalf of the Delaware Indians, September 18, 1758 - 2
12021-11-04T11:35:01-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa63772001The speech of Ackowano Mio an old Indian on Ohio in behalf of the Delaware Indians and others living on the waters thereof.plain2021-11-04T11:35:01-07:001758Ackawonothio; Weiser, Conrad, 1696-1760.Walking Purchase collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.Watermark: Royal arms under Garter / GR under crown in cartouche. Docketed: "an old Indian Speech." No. 39. Docketed on P. 4: "Part of Genl. Indians speech at Easton." Contemporaneous record of the famous speech, in Conrad Weiser's hand. This is the fourth known copy. Cf. copies in: HSP, Penn. Mss. Indian Affairs, V, 63; the Chatham Papers (PRO, 30/8, 96, ff. 108, 154-55, attached to Thomas Penn's letter to William Pitt of February 3, 1759), and PHMC, Provincial papers, XXVII, 69; enclosed in Weiser's letter to Richard Peters of November 15, 1758. Ackawonothio, or Anacatotha was a a Shawnee or Delaware chief who earlier lived in Wyoming Valley. Published, after the HSP copy, in: Alden T. Vaughan, Early American Indian Documents: Treaties and laws, 1607-1789. Vol. 3: Pennsylvania Treaties, 1756-1757 (Washington, D.C.: University Publications of America, 1979), p. 425.Manuscript, 5 pages.52Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
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12021-11-05T15:58:27-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aSpeech on behalf of the Delaware Indians, September 18, 1758Will Fenton1(path)gallery2021-11-05T15:58:27-07:001758Ackawonothio; Weiser, Conrad, 1696-1760.Walking Purchase collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.Watermark: Royal arms under Garter / GR under crown in cartouche. Docketed: "an old Indian Speech." No. 39. Docketed on P. 4: "Part of Genl. Indians speech at Easton." Contemporaneous record of the famous speech, in Conrad Weiser's hand. This is the fourth known copy. Cf. copies in: HSP, Penn. Mss. Indian Affairs, V, 63; the Chatham Papers (PRO, 30/8, 96, ff. 108, 154-55, attached to Thomas Penn's letter to William Pitt of February 3, 1759), and PHMC, Provincial papers, XXVII, 69; enclosed in Weiser's letter to Richard Peters of November 15, 1758. Ackawonothio, or Anacatotha was a a Shawnee or Delaware chief who earlier lived in Wyoming Valley. Published, after the HSP copy, in: Alden T. Vaughan, Early American Indian Documents: Treaties and laws, 1607-1789. Vol. 3: Pennsylvania Treaties, 1756-1757 (Washington, D.C.: University Publications of America, 1979), p. 425.Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a