MS 4484-c Memorabilia of the Reverend Cyrus Byington and the Reverend Peter Pitchlynn
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 4484-c
label: Local Note
content: Printed document
label: Other Title
content: A Pioneer Missionary
label: Other Title
content: A Great Choctaw Chief (Peter Pitchlynn)
label: Other Title
content: Peter Pitchlynn, Chief of the Choctaws
name: label: Creator
content: Byington, Cyrus, 1793-1868
label: Creator
content: Nye, Anselm T.
label: Author
content: Inman, Henry, 1801-1846
label: Depicted
content: Byington, Cyrus, 1793-1868
label: Depicted
content: Byington, Sophia Nye
label: Names
content: Pitchlynn, Peter Perkins, 1806-1881
topic: label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
creator: label: Creator
content: Byington, Cyrus, 1793-1868
label: Creator
content: Nye, Anselm T.
label: Author
content: Inman, Henry, 1801-1846
culture: label: Culture
content: Choctaw
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 14 Pages
label: Extent
content: 5 Photographs
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1845 and 1870
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Donated to Bureau of American Ethnology-A November, 1955 (with Numbers 4484-a and -b) by Miss Marcia A. Walton, 15 West 84th Street, New York 24, N.Y., a descendant of Byington. (Personal visit; no transmittal correspondence. Letter of acknowledgement is in Bureau of American Ethnology-A accession files.)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4484C
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Clippings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Clippings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Contents: Byington, Cyrus. Letter to Anselm T. Nye, Marrietta, Ohio. Stockbridge, Choctaw Nation (Indian Territory) October 20, 1845. 2 pages and cover. Photostat carbon of Autograph document. Concerns Peter Pitchlynn, who is to carry the letter. Byington, Cyrus. "A Pioneer Missionary," account of early mission work of Cyrus Byington. Bible House, New York, N.Y. October 1867. Photostat Carbon of newsclipping. 2 pages. Photographs of Cyrus Byington and Sophia Nye Byington: individual portraits painted 1827; individual photographs, photographs of both together, (ca. 1860-1868). 5 prints. Inman, Henry. "A Great Choctaw Chief (Peter Pitchlynn)." No date. Published document (News clipping) 1 column. Anonymous. "Peter Pitchlynn, Chief of the Choctaws." Atlantic Monthly, volume 25, Number 150, April, 1870, pages 486-497; in whole volume with anonymous Manuscript note on cover concerning Peter Pitchlynn and "Grandfather Byington."