The following action was had by the Missionary Board–at the An. Meeting of the Bishop & Board, Apl. 19, 1861 The proposition as presented by Bro. Scarritt—of Rev….
Nashville April 18, 1861 Rev. Thos. Johnson Dear Bro. Before this reaches you Bro Scarritt will hand you a copy of the action of the Board in reference to your…
The United States To E.W. Sehon Secty. of the M. S. of the M. E. Church South Dr. For the Tuition Boarding and clothing of the Shawnee children for…
Joab Spencer writes of the same occasion: “I was at a little gathering of citizens July 4th 1861. The meeting was at or near where Turner, Wyandotte Co. now stands….
Washington D. C. May 3d. 1860 Sir Wishing to bring before you several matters of importance to the Shawnee Tribe of Indians and deeming a written statement the most…
Shawnee Council Rooms Feb. 21, 1860 To the Commissioner of Indian Affairs Washington D. C. We, Paschal Fish and William Rodgers Chiefs and Charles Fish Charles Tucker George Daugherty…
We the undersigned Chiefs and Councilmen of the Shawnee Nation in Council assembled approve the above preamble and resolution of the Joint School Committee Samuel Cornetzer Council Clerk Joseph…
Nov. 24, 1858 The Meeting of the Joint Committee appointed on the one part by the Council of the Shawnee Nation, & on the other part by the Kansas…
The next day [May 8th] I took a walk out to Westport, and proceeded from thence to the plains of Kansas Territory, where the Santa Fe trains were encamped…
Kansas. From our Special Correspondent. Oxford, Johnson Co., K. T., August 9, 1858. Political economists tell us that the laws which govern population are fixed and irreversible, but what…