MS 416 Draft of letter to O. H. Marshall signed by M. B. Pierce, containing notes on Red Jacket, White Chief, Big Kettle, Little Billy
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 416
label: Local Note
content: O. H. Marshall was the author of "The Niagara Frontier", Buffalo, 1865; and "The First Visit of De La Salle to the Senecas made in 1669." Buffalo, 1874. -MCB 10-57
name: label: Creator
content: Pierce, M. B. (Maris Bryant), 1811-1874
label: Collector
content: Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937
label: Addressee
content: Marshall, O. H. (Orsamus Holmes), 1813-1884
label: Names
content: Big Kettle
label: Names
content: Farmer's Brother, approximately 1730-1841
label: Names
content: Little Billy
label: Names
content: Pollard
label: Names
content: Red Jacket, Seneca chief, approximately 1756-1830
label: Names
content: White Chief
label: Names
content: Young King, Seneca chief, 1760-1835
topic: label: Topic
content: Nahuatl language
label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
creator: label: Creator
content: Pierce, M. B. (Maris Bryant), 1811-1874
label: Collector
content: Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937
label: Addressee
content: Marshall, O. H. (Orsamus Holmes), 1813-1884
culture: label: Culture
content: Iroquois
label: Culture
content: Seneca
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: This was probably preliminary to the reburial of Red Jacket and other chiefs (mentioned in Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 30, II, 363 and Buffalo Historical Society Publications, Volume III, 1885) in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo. October 9, 1884.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: February 7, 1874
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS416
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Reply to inquiry about burial places of certain Iroquois men: Red Jacket, Farmer's Brother. Pollard, Young King, Big Kettle, Little Billy, White Chief. Gives Indian name but no information re burial site except for Red Jacket. "...will write...again"