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Haverford College, Quaker and Special Collections: Some Account of Our Journey to Cannandaigue

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Account of David Bacon’s visit to the Six Nations in 1794 to attend the meetings that led to the signing of the Treaty of Canandaigua between the Six Nation chiefs and the government of the United States.

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Haverford College, Quaker and Special Collections: Visit to the Indians in 1798

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Account of the visit of Isaac Coates, Joshua Sharpless, and John Pierce to the Native American reservation on the Allegheny River in New York State. They travelled under the auspices of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, and were accompanied by Henry Simmons, Joel Swayne, and Halliday Jackson, who were to remain on the reservation. The travelers left Chester County on 1.5.1789.

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