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Ms. Coll. 1104
16 volumes
Table of contents
Biographical background
Enoch Hoag (1812-1884), a member of Iowa Yearly Meeting, was
appointed Superintendent of the Central Superintendency in 1869
by President Grant under Grant's "Peace Policy." This
policy gave Orthodox Friends supervision of the Indians located
in Kansas and the Indian Territory. The Superintendency's headquarters
were at Lawrence, Kansas. Under Hoag were nine Indian Agents (also
Friends) who were assigned to various Agencies. Tribes under the
care of Friends included the Kickapoo, Shawnee, Potawatomi, Kansas,
Osage, Quapaw, Sac and Fox, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Wichita, Kiowa,
Comanche and Apache. Hoag's duties included the establishment
of Indian schools, the distribution of supplies to the Indians
and the payment of government annuities to the Indians. The election
of President Hayes ended the essentially friendly relationship
between the Quakers and the administration as it became evident
that some officials distrusted the work and integrity of Friends.
Hoag and his son, Edward F. Hoag spent considerable time and energy
in settling Hoag's financial accounts with Washington after his
resignation [see Hoag Indian Papers, Ms. Coll. 1034]. In 1879
Friends withdrew from government sponsored work and continued
work on their own through the Associated Executive Committee of
Friends on Indian Affairs.
[See: Kelsey, Rayner Wickersham, Friends and the Indians 1655-1917,
Philadelphia: The Associated executive committee of Friends on
Indian affairs, 1917.]
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 Group 1, Letterbook #5. Letter
dated 11/21/1874 from Enoch Hoag to Commissioner Smith concerning
legal proceedings against the Kansas Militia and Captain Ricker
for the murder of four Osages.( approximately 78K).
Summary of collection
Letterpress copies of letters. There are three groups of books:
- Group 1 Letters to the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs in Washington,
- Group 2 Letters to the Indian Agents under
the jurisdiction of Hoag.
- Group 3 Letters characterized as "Individual
letters."
The letters are signed by Enoch Hoag, Cyrus Beede (Chief clerk
to Hoag) or Edward F. Hoag (Hoag's son and clerk). Much of the
correspondence is of a routine nature and is concerned with the
day-to-day running of the Superintendency and Agencies. There
are also letters on various problems and situations that arose
during Hoag's tenure, such as the murder of the Chief of the Wichitas
by the Osage and the murder of four Osage by the [Kansas?] militia.
With the exception of four volumes, the books are apparently completely
indexed and each index includes a brief summary of the contents
of each letter.
Note: These are letterpress books in which copies of letters
are made by placing the original letter on a dampened tissue-like
leaf of the book, the book is then placed in a press and the pressure
transfers the image of the letter to the letterpress page. Because
of the nature of the process, there is a great deal of variation
as to the readability of individual letters.
Related collections
Additional material may be found in the Enoch Hoag Indian papers, 1865-1883 and Jonathan
Richards papers, Ms. Coll. 964 of Haverford College. See also
the records of the Associated Executive Committee of Friends on
Indian Affairs, Ms. Coll. 1003 and Philadelphia
Yearly Meeting Indian Committee records as other sources for
Friends' work with Indians.
Arrangement and description of collection
The following links will link back to the Table of contents,
Summary, etc. and were put before the beginning of individual
groups in the descriptive part of the finding aid.
Group 1 "Commissioner's Books"
| Table of contents | Summary
| Group 1 | Group 2 |
Group 3
Letters to Commissioner of Indian Affairs in Washington
1 mo. 1, 1873 - 9 mo. 26, 1875 (6 volumes)
These are copies of letters sent to the U.S. Commissioner of
Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C. from the Central Superintendency
headed by Enoch Hoag. During the time span of these volumes the
Commissioners were Francis A. Walker (1840-1897) from 1871 to
Dec. 1872 and Edward Parmalee Smith (1827-1876) from March 1873
to Dec. 1875. Most of these letters reflect the routine business
of the Superintendency and its various Agencies and Agents. There
are also letters discussing "non-routine" matters, such
as the murder of the Chief of the Wichitas by Osages in 1873 and
the murders of four Osage by militia in 1874.
- "Commissioner's Book. 1" 1" 1873 to 5"
2" 1873" [label on front cover]
498 p.
indexed by date, includes brief summary of each letter
letters are to Francis A. Walker, H.R. Clum [Acting Comm.] and
Edward P. Smith
[many of these letters are blurred and difficult to read]
- "Commissioner's Book. No. 2. From May 9 to Sept. 8, 1873"
[label on front cover]
496 p.
indexed by date, includes brief summary of each letter
[many of these letters are blurred and difficult to read]
- "Commissioner's Book. From 9" 8" 1873 to 3"
13" 1874" also "Lawrence (3)" and "E.
Hoag" [label on front cover]
483 p.
indexed by date, includes brief summary of each letter
- "Commissioner's Book. From 3" 14" 1874 to 9"
10" 1874" [label on front cover]
499 p.
indexed by date, includes brief summary of each letter
[note on flyleaf indicates letters to the Secretary of the Interior
are indexed on last sheet of index letter Y, but this page is
missing (removed) and found no letters to Sec. of Interior in
this volume.]
- "1874. Commissioner's Book. From 9 mo. 11" 74 to
2" 24" 1875" [label on front cover]
514 p.
indexed by date, includes brief summary of each letter
[also telegram to Sec. of the Interior, Columbus Delano, 9/16/1874
asking for investigation into Osage murders]
Letter dated 11/21/1874 from Enoch Hoag to Commissioner
Smith concerning legal proceedings against the Kansas Militia
and Captain Ricker for the murder of four Osages.( approximately
78K).
- "1875. Commissioner's Book: From 2" 24" 1875
to 9" 26 1875" [label on front cover]
495 p.
indexed by date, includes brief summary of each letter
Group 2 "Agents' Books" |
Table of contents | Summary
| Group 1 | Group 2 |
Group 3
Letters to Indian Agents under jurisdiction of Hoag.
8 mo. 23, 1870 - 9 mo. 2, 1875 (4 volumes)
These are letters from the Central Superintendency to the various
Agents under Hoag's jurisdiction. There are also letters to other
correspondents.
- "No. 1. Agents Book. 8=23=70 to 5=3=72. Indexed"
[label on front cover]
498 p.
indexed by recipient and date of letters
letters are addressed to the following Agents and other correspondents:
Brinton Darlington, Isaac T. Gibson, Agent Griffith, John Hadley,
John B. Garrett, J.B. Jones, Hiram W. Jones, F. [S.] Lyon, Joel
H. Morris, John D. Miles, George Mitchell, H.B. Norton, John
H. Pickering, Jonathan Richards, R.L. Roberts, Agent Reinheart,
Mahlon Stubbs, James Stanley, Lawrie Tatum
- "No. 2. Agents Book. 5-3-72 to 12-29-72. Indexed"
[label on front cover]
306 p.
indexed [incomplete] by name of Agency and date of letters,
includes brief summary of each letter
letters are addressed to the Agents at the following: Neosho
Agency (J.T. Gibson, Agent), Quapaw Agency (Herman W. Jones,
Agent) and others [not listed in index]
- "3. 1873. Agents. 12/31-1872 to 6-24.73. Indexed"
[label on front cover]
492 p.
indexed by name of Agency and date of letters, includes brief
summary of each letter
[note: many of these letters are blurred and very difficult
to read]
letters are addressed to the Agents at the following: Cherokee
Agency, Creek Agency, Kiowa Agency, Kickapoo Agency, Kansas
Agency, Neosho Agency, Quapaw Agency, Potawatomi Agency, Seminole
Agency, Shawnee Agency, Sac and Fox Agency, Upper Arkansas Agency,
Wichita Agency
- "No. 4. Agents Book from 7" 17"-1874 to 9"
2" 1875" [label on front cover]
693 p.
indexed by name of Agency and date of letters, includes brief
summary of each letter
letters are addressed to Agents at the following: Mexican Kickapoos
(A.C. Williams), Cheyenne Agency, Kickapoo Agency, Kiowa Agency,
Osage Agency, Quapaw Agency, Sac and Fox Agency (J.H. Pickering),
Wichita Agency, Cherokee and other tribes, Special Agent C.F.
Larabee, Pawnee Agency
Group 3 "Individual Letters"
Books | Table of contents | Summary
| Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3
(Letters characterized by Hoag as "Individual letters.")
8 mo. 23, 1871 - 1 mo. 7, 1878 (6 volumes)
These letterbooks contain copies of letters from the Central
Superintendency addressed to merchants, suppliers, shippers, RR
companies, newspapers, government officials, military officers,
individual Indians, etc. For the most part they are concerned
with the day-to-day business operation of the Superintendency
and the various Agencies [re: getting supplies, asking for bills,
receipts and vouchers, land related problems, etc.]. Although
many of the letters deal with routine items, there are other letters
touching on various problems and situations with the Indians [Osage
murders], etc.
- "No. 1. Individual Letters from 8" 23" 1871"
to 12" 5" 7" 26" 1873." [label on front
cover]
882 p.
indexed by recipient
includes letter to U.S. Grant re: death sentence imposed on
two Kiowa Chiefs for depredation and murder in Texas
- "No. 2. Individual Book. 5" 26" 1873. to 3"
11" 1874" [label on front cover]
498 p.
indexed by recipient and date, includes brief summary of each
letter
- "No. 3. Incidental. 3-11-74 to 3-9-1875" [label
on front cover]
69[8] p.
indexed by recipient and date, includes brief summary of each
letter
- "No. 4. Hoag Individual Letter Book. [fro]m 3" 10"
1875 to 2" 2" 1876" [label on front cover]
991 p.
indexed by recipient and date, includes brief summary of each
letter
some letters relative to the Osage murders
- "Letterbook No. 5 1874-1876" [label on front cover]
[actual dates 12 mo. 26, 1872 - 1 mo. 3, 1876]
490 p.
indexed by page no. and mostly chronological, includes brief
summary of each letter, etc.
includes: letters, reports, explanations to auditors, copies
of telegrams, Jonathan Richards' reply to the editorial in the
Evening Bulletin [Phila.] re: his agency, financial balances,
copies of receipts and bills, statement of [Louie] Doctor Osage
brave re: murder of an Osage while stealing cattle, etc.]
- "Letterbook no. 6 1876-1877" [label on front cover]
[actual dates 6 mo 12, 1876 - 1 mo. 7, 1878]
295 p.
indexed by recipient, these are identified as "Answers
to exceptions in auditors office"
these are letters to government officials re: Edward F. Hoag's
attempts to settle his father's accounts with Washington
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