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- Title
- Letter to Walter Lowrie from Edmund McKinney, July 18, 1844.
- Description
- Edmund McKinney, missionary in charge of Spencer Academy, describes a conflict over his hiring of a “free man of color,” Oliver Ingles, and his family from Fort Smith, Arkansas, “at very high wages.” According to McKinney, as soon as Choctaw leader Peter Pitchlynn found out about the hiring, he demanded that the man be dismissed from Spencer Academy based on a law in the Choctaw Constitution that forbid free people from residing in the Nation. If Ingles refused to leave, he and his family would be arrested by the light-horsemen force (equivalent to the police in the Choctaw Nation) and sold into enslavement for a year.
- Creator Name(s)
- McKinney, Edmund. (author)
- Date Created
- 1844, July 18, 1844, July 18, 1844
- Name Subject(s)
- Lowrie, Walter, 1784-1868., Pitchlynn, Peter Perkins, 1806-1881., Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Choctaw Indians--Missions--19th century., Presbyterian Church--Missions--United States.
- Geographic subjects
- Indian Territory., North and Central America--United States--Oklahoma--Choctaw--Sawyer
- Physical Location
- RG 224, Box 10, Folder 16, Letter 7; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- American Indian Correspondence: the Presbyterian Historical Society Collection of Missionaries' Letters, 1833-1893, 1949-1950.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-224
- Identifier (local)
- rg224_b10_f16_07
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:111076
- Title
- Letter to Walter Lowrie from Edmund McKinney, April 22, 1845.
- Description
- Edmund McKinney, missionary in charge of Spencer Academy, describes an ongoing conflict over his hiring of a “free man of color,” Oliver Ingles. McKinney complained that Ingles “had made no preparations to go, and was using as he had been for sometime, very threatening language towards me.” The situation dragged on for several months, until Ingles finally relented and left Spencer Academy, but only after “he and his wife received full compensation.”
- Creator Name(s)
- McKinney, Edmund. (author)
- Date Created
- 1845, April 22, 1845, April 22, 1845
- Name Subject(s)
- Lowrie, Walter, 1784-1868., Pitchlynn, Peter Perkins, 1806-1881., Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Presbyterian Church--Missions--United States., Choctaw Indians--Missions--19th century.
- Geographic subjects
- Indian Territory., North and Central America--United States--Oklahoma--Choctaw--Sawyer
- Physical Location
- RG 224, Box 10, Folder 17, Letter 10; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- American Indian Correspondence: the Presbyterian Historical Society Collection of Missionaries' Letters, 1833-1893, 1949-1950.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-224
- Identifier (local)
- rg224_b10_f17_10
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:111085
