Letter : Tuscarora Villages, to H[oratio] G[ates] Spafford, Lansingburgh, New York

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Title: Letter : Tuscarora Villages, to H[oratio] G[ates] Spafford, Lansingburgh, New York
Creator: Cusick, David, -ca. 1840
Contributor: Cusick, David, -ca 1840. Sketches of ancient history of the Six Nations
Cusick, David, -ca. 1840
Spafford, Horatio Gates, 1778-1832
Published / Created: 1825 Oct 26
Abstract: ALS mentioning Cusick's ill health and his intention to print a manuscript, possibly relating to Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations, in Lewiston, New York, rather than send it to Spafford.
Description: David Cusick was an Iroquois (Tuscarora) writer, physician, and painter. He published Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations in Lewiston, New York, in 1827. Cusick died ca. 1840.
Horatio Gates Spafford, author of Gazetteer of the State of New York.
Purchased from Arthur Freeman on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2006.
Extent: 1 item (1 p.) ; 32 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: text
Genre: Correspondence
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Cusick, David, -ca 1840. Sketches of ancient history of the Six Nations
Cusick, David, -ca. 1840
Spafford, Horatio Gates, 1778-1832
Subject (Topic): Indian authors--New York (State)--19th century
Indians of North America--New York (State)
Tuscarora Indians

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Citation: David Cusick, Letter to Horatio Gates Spafford. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.