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Box 1

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Contains 42 Results:

Correspondence, 1837

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 31
Scope and Contents

Includes a letter of complaint regarding Camp's canal running throuhg the swamp land.

Dates: 1837

Correspondence, 1838

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 32-33
Scope and Contents

Includes letters referencing Camp's paper and lumber mill burning down.

Dates: 1838

Correspondence, 1839

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 34
Scope and Contents

Includes a letter (February 12) from John May regarding politics in Oswego, Pirates at Fort Henry, and the British Empire.

Dates: 1839

Correspondence, 1841

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 36
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Includes a letter from Hiram Barney about the Young Men's Total Abstinence Society and temperance; Thomas Chittenden writing about appropriations necessary for expansion and local government/conflicts.

Dates: 1841

Correspondence, 1842

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 37
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Includes a letter from a "looker on" criticising Camp's speech in Watertown; a letter from Gerrit Smith regarding the Temperance Movement.

Dates: 1842

Correspondence, 1857

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 48
Scope and Contents

Includes a letter from Elisha Ely to his parents describing the relationship with the Indigenous Peoples of the Washington Territories, and writes of how they describe their treatment by "white men."

Dates: 1857

Correspondence, 1858

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 49
Scope and Contents

Includes a letter from Elisha Ely describing the collaboration between the Mormons and the local tribes against the United States government (the Utah War), and another describing the activities of the local (unnamed) tribe.

Dates: 1858