The Samuel Kirkland Correspondence, 1765-1793

Description

Hamilton College has in its Archives the Samuel Kirkland Papers, which include correspondence, diaries, fragment of an autobiography (1764-65), and census of Six Nations (1789). Some of the letters are in the Oneida and Mohawk languages. Correspondents include James Bowdoin, Joseph Brant, Israel Chapin, Henry Knox, Andrew Oliver, Timothy Pickering, Philip Schuyler, Peter Thatcher, the Rev. Stephen West, Eleazer Wheelock, Edward Wigglesworth, and Joseph Willard. Summary descriptions and indices to the bulk of the correspondence of Samuel Kirkland (including copies of some letters in other repositories) are now available in PDF format on-line.

The correspondence of Samuel Kirkland: summaries and index

Volume 1: 1765-1793, by James T. Freeman (1979)
Volume 2: 1794-1795, by John Hinge (1985)
Volume 3: 1795-1808, by Christopher S. Barton (1989)
Key to Status of Items in Kirkland Collection

• S. Kirkland Correspondence: Title, volume 1: 1765-1793
• S. Kirkland Correspondence: Introduction
• S. Kirkland Correspondence: Descriptions, letters 1-33b
• S. Kirkland Correspondence: Descriptions, letters 33c-68a
• S. Kirkland Correspondence: Descriptions, letters 69a-129c
• S. Kirkland Correspondence: Descriptions, letters 130a-148c
• S. Kirkland Correspondence: Descriptions, letters 148a-163a
• S. Kirkland Correspondence: 1765-93 Index: a-h
• S. Kirkland Correspondence: 1765-93 Index: h-p
• S. Kirkland Correspondence: 1765-93 Index: p-y
• S. Kirkland Correspondence: Title, volume 2: 1794-1795
• S. Kirkland Correspondence: Descriptions, letters 164a-185b
• S. Kirkland Correspondence: Title, vol. 3: 1795-1808
• S. Kirkland Correspondence: Descriptions, letters186a-201d
• S. Kirkland Correspondence: Descriptions, letters 201e-223a
• S. Kirkland Correspondence: Descriptions, letters 224a-254a
• S. Kirkland Correspondence: 1794-1808 Index

Descriptions of additional documents (not described in the original indices) in searchable files:

• S. Kirkland Correspondence: Miscellaneous, Fragmentary, and Undated
• S. Kirkland Correspondence: Lothrop-Pickering Papers (Papers of S. Kirkland deposited in the Library by Thornton K. Lothrop)
• S. Kirkland Correspondence: Sermons and other documents
• S. Kirkland Correspondence: Letters in the Iroquois language (dated and undated)

(Reviewed: July, 2008)