American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection

Detailed Inventory

Vocabularies and Correspondence	1784-1828	0.25 lin. feet	Request Collection
1. [Peter S. DuPonceau]. List of vocabularies communicated by Jefferson, Heckewelder, and Murray	n.d	1p.	Request Item
1a. Peter S. DuPonceau. ALS to John Vaughan	Oct. 5, 1820	1p.	Request Item
List of additional vocabularies communicated
1b. Address sheet to Thomas Jefferson	ca.1809	1p.	Request Item
Note: "papers which were lost in the trunk no. 28 found on the S. side of the river 3 or 4 miles above Manchester & returned to me by Mr. Jefferson July 2, 1809."
1c. [John Vaughan]. Endorsement	Oct 1825	1p.	Request Item
In hand of John Vaughan: "Indian vocabularies sent to A.P. Soc. By Thos. Jefferson."
2. Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816. Vocabulary of the Cherokee and Choctaw languages	prior to 1784	8p.	Request Item
Communicated by Jefferson, with note in his hand attributing authorship to Benjamin Hawkins Freeman and Smith 663
3. W[illiam] Thornton. Vocabulary of the Miami language taken in part from Little Turtle	Jan. 11, 1802	17p.	Request Item
Communicated by Jefferson, with note attirbuting to William Thornton, as taken from Little Turtle and William Wells, the translator Freeman and Smith 2225
4. Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816. ALS to Thomas Jefferson	July 12, 1800	4p.	Request Item
Letter of transmittal accompanying vocabulary no. 5, and describing informants and conditions of collection Freeman and Smith 809
5. Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816. A comparative vocabulary of the Muskoges, or Creek, Chickasaw, Chocktaw, and Cherokee languages	[1800]	15p.	Request Item
Freeman and Smith 662 and 810
6. [David Campbell]. Vocabulary of the Cherokee language	[received August 5, 1800]	8p.	Request Item
Freeman and Smith 649
7. Daniel Smith. ALS to [Thomas Jefferson]	July 6, 1800	1p.	Request Item
Letter of transmittal accompanying vocabulary no. 8 Freeman and Smith 702
8. [Daniel Smith]. Vocabulary of the Chickasaw Indians, Tennessee	July 6, 1800	2p.	Request Item
Freeman and Smith 703
9. Chasseboeuf, Constantin François , comte de Volney. Vocabulary of the Miami Indians	March, 1798	4p.	Request Item
Employing Jefferson's printed form for vocabulary Freeman and Smith 2226
10. Martin Duralde. Suite du vocabulaire de la langue des Atacapas	April 13, 1802	8p.	Request Item
Freeman and Smith 422
11. Martin Duralde. Vocabulaire de la langue des Chatimachas et Croyance des Chetimachas	April 23, 1802	9p.	Request Item
Includes commentary on Chitimacha religion Freeman and Smith 729
12. Martin Duralde. ALS to William Dunbar	April 24, 1802	11p.	Request Item
Letter of transmittal accompanying vocabularies no. 10, 11, in French, with commentary on the Indians and collection of information. Freeman and Smith 421
13. Martin Duralde. Translation of ALS to William Dunbar	April 24, 1802	7p.	Request Item
Freeman and Smith 421
14. [Thomas Jefferson]. Vocabulary of the Unquachog Indians	1791	2p.	Request Item
Freeman and Smith 2335
15. William Vans Murray. ALS to [Thomas] Jefferson	Sept. 18, 1792	2p.	Request Item
Letter of transmittal accompanying vocabulary no. 16, with brief comments on the Nanticokes. Freeman and Smith 2365
16. [William Vans Murray]. Vocabulary of the Nanticoke Indians	Sept. 18, 1792	1p.	Request Item
Submitted on Jefferson's printed vocabulary form. Freeman and Smith 2366
17. Vocabulary of the Delaware Indians	Dec. 1792	1p.	Request Item
Submitted on Jefferson's printed vocabulary form. Freeman and Smith 1190
18. [Thomas Jefferson]. Vocabulary [broadside]	ca.1792	1p.	Request Item
Blank version of Jefferson's printed vocabulary form. Freeman and Smith 2051
19. J[ohn G. E.] H[eckewelder]. Mahicanni [Mohegan] words taken down from the mouth of one of that nation who had been born in Connecticut		8p.	Request Item
Freeman and Smith 2077
20. J[ohn G. E.] H[eckewelder]. Vocabulary of the Shawanese [i.e. Miami] language			Request Item
"Taken down by means of a White Woman who had been 20 Years a Prisoner with that Nation." Despite the identification, the language is Miami, not Shawnee. Freeman and Smith 3670
21, 22b. Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823. Comparative vocabulary of the Delaware, Minsi, Mohicon, Natick, Chippeway, Shawanoe [i.e. Miami], and Nanticoke languages		6p.	Request Item
See also Heckewelder to Du Ponceau, July 14, 1828. Freeman and Smith 349
22, 22a. Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823. Comparative vocabulary of the Lenni Lenape, Mahicanni, Nanticoke, Shawano, Natick, Chippuwa and Algonquin languages		3p.	Request Item
Freeman and Smith 350
23. [Murray, Dr.]. A vocabulary of the Osage language	[communicated] Oct. 23, 1818	5p.	Request Item
Communicated by John C. Warren from Murray, "who resides at Louisville." Freeman and Smith 2611
24. James Barbour. [Circular requesting that Indian languages of the U.S. be recorded and sent to the War Department]		1p.	Request Item
Freeman and Smith 1973. Duplicate in Broadside Collection, no. 112.
25. C[onstantine] S. Rafinesque. Vocabulary of the extinct Haytian or Taino language		3p.	Request Item
Comparing Taino to Old World language (berber, Cantabrian, Celtic, Coptic, etc. Freeman and Smith 3708
26. C[onstantine] S. Rafinesque. Vocabulary of the Chontal language and its dialects s reading from Guatimala to Panama & Darien	Sept. 1826	7p.	Request Item
Includes some commentary on comparative linguistics of indigenous languages of Guatemala. Freeman and Smith 746
27. George Izard. ALS to Robert Walsh	March 21, 1825	1p.	Request Item
Offers services in collecting languages in Arkansas. Freeman and Smith 3095
28. William H. Keating. ALS to George Izard	May 7, 1825	1p.	Request Item
Freeman and Smith 3097
29, 30. American Philosophical Society.. Report of committee to which George Izard's letter requesting data to guide his inquiries in Arkansas was referred, with notes for his guidance	May 6, 1825	7p., 9p.	Request Item
Freeman and Smith 3092
31. George Izard. ALS to the American Philosophical Society	Jan. 10, 1827	5p.	Request Item
Transitting Quapaw vocabulary, with comments on mode of collection, and transmits specimens of a "water witch" and tarantulas. Freeman and Smith 3094
32. American Philosophical Society.. Report of committee to which was referred the communications of George Izard on the Arkansas territory and a vocabulary of the Quapaw language	[Jan. 18, 1828]	1p.	Request Item
Freeman and Smith 3093
33. [George Izard]. Notes respecting the Arkansas territory's aboriginal inhabitants, the Quapaw Indians	[Jan. 10 1827]	7p.	Request Item
Freeman and Smith 3096
34. [George Izard]. Vocabulary of the Quapaw Indians	[Jan. 10, 1827]	6p.	Request Item
Freeman and Smith 3099
35. [Walter Bromley]. ALS Cy to Thomas Wistar	April 26, 1819	3p.	Request Item
Comparing Micmac and Delaware from resident of Halifax. Freeman and Smith 2238
36. [Walter Bromley]. A few specimens of the verbs of the Micmac Indians	[April 26, 1819]	8p.	Request Item
37. [John] Campanius Holm. A vocabulary of the language of the Delawares of New Sweden, translated by Peter S. Du Ponceau		4p.	Request Item
38. Peter S. DuPonceau. A vocabulary of the language of the Massachusetts Indians... extracted from Eliot's grammar and from his translation of the Bible and New Testament		2p.	Request Item
Regarding efforts to learn Cherokee; recommending Daniel Butrick.
39. John Gambold. ALS to Peter S. Du Ponceau	July 20, 1818	3p.	Request Item
Complaining of white harassment of Cherokees to remove.
40. John Gambold. ALS to Peter S. Du Ponceau	Dec. 16, 1818	3p.	Request Item
41. Dan[iel] S. Butrick. Conjugation of a verb in the Cherokee language	[Oct. 29, 1818]	4p.	Request Item
42. Dan[iel] S. Butrick. Remarks on the verbs of the Cherokee language; Sounds of the Cherokee		2p.	Request Item
43. Robert, Vicar general of Quebec. ALS to Peter S. Du Ponceau	Aug. 8, 1818	3p.	Request Item
Relaying information on contacts for Catholic missionaries among the Iroquois, Algonkian, Abnakis, and Micmac of Lower Canada.
44. [Benjamin Smith Barton]. Queries concerning the northern Indians	March 31, 1797	2p.	Request Item
45. Gottlob Senseman. Answers to Dr. Benjamin Smith Bartton's queries concerning the northern Indians, for David Zeisberger	[ca.1797]	3p.	Request Item
46. Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823. Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808. Answers to Dr. Benjamin Smith Barton's queries on the Northern Indians	1797-1798	7p.	Request Item
47. R[ichard] Kells. ALS to William Short	May 25, 1784	1p.	Request Item
Has engaged Mr. Gurley, a clergyman, to collect vocabulary for Jefferson among the Nottoway.
48. Geo[rge] Gurley. ALS to Rich[ar]d Kells	May 15, 1784	1p.	Request Item
49. [George Gurley]. Remarks on Indian names still to be found	[May 25, 1784]	2p.	Request Item
Etymology of "Tuckahoe" and other Nottoway rods, tracing them to Arabic and Hebrew roots.