Title: Thomas Dean Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1814-1836

Creator:

• Dean, Thomas, 1783-circa 1843

Call Number: Micro 22

Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Thomas Dean, the Indian agent at Brotherton, New York, including an account book and diary with a description of a survey expedition on the Fox River, 1824, and of journeys to Green Bay in 1830, to Washington, D.C. in 1831, and along the Lake Huron coastline starting on the Saint Clair River in 1834; deeds for Indian lands; copies of petitions to President Andrew Jackson, 1830, and to Enos Throop, governor of New York, 1831; and a number of letters from other Indian agents and federal officials for Indian affairs.

Language: English

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These papers primarily concern negotiations on behalf of the Brotherton Indians for lands held by the Delaware (Lenape), Miami (Myaamiaki), and Shawano (Shawnee) Indians in Indiana, and the Meskwaki (Fox), Menominee, Ojibwe, Stockbridge-Munsee, and Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Indians in Michigan and Wisconsin. The papers also include some information on several New England Indian tribes and on the Oneida Indians of New York.

Acquisition Information

Manuscripts loaned for microfilming through arrangements made by William Brandt, Ripon, Wisconsin, May 1955.

Micro 22	Diaries
Reel   1	1824 August 26-September 13 Scope and Content Note: Dean's account of a surveying expedition on the Fox River.
Reel   1	1830 July 12-September 26 Scope and Content Note: Account of journey to Green Bay from Brothertown, New York.
Reel   1	1831 January 3-August 28 Scope and Content Note: Account of journey to Washington, D.C.
Reel   1	1834 July 3-August 28 Scope and Content Note: Account of a surveying expedition of the St. Clair River.
	Correspondence
Reel   1	1814 March 24 Scope and Content Note: Copy of letter to Henry McNeil of Albany, New York relating to Stockbridge Indian affairs.
Reel   1	1817 October 2 Scope and Content Note: Certification that the Delaware Indian Nation of Indiana agreed to receive the Brothertown Indian Nation into their country, and allow them to use the land, signed by John Johnson, Indian Agent for the Delawares.
Reel   1	1817 April 19 Scope and Content Note: Letter from John Sergent to Dean.
Reel   1	1818 January 26 Scope and Content Note: Deed from John Metoxen.
Reel   1	1818 November 30 Scope and Content Note: Deed from John W. Quinney.
Reel   1	1827 April Scope and Content Note: Letter to Gov. Lewis Cass and Col. McNerney from James Barbour, of the War Department.
Reel   1	1827 November 7 Scope and Content Note: Letter from J. Miner, including an appointment of Thomas Dean as Indian Agent.
Reel   1	1828 November 6 Scope and Content Note: Letter from E. Williams.
Reel   1	1830 December 27 Scope and Content Note: Petition to President Andrew Jackson signed by the Brothertown Peace Makers.
Reel   1	1830 June 9 Scope and Content Note: Extracts from instructions of the Department of War to E. Root, J. McCall, and others.
Reel   1	1831 April Scope and Content Note: Petition to Enos. T. Throop, Governor of New York.
Reel   1	1831 April 13 Scope and Content Note: Petition to Enos. T. Throop, Governor of New York.
Reel   1	[1831?] Scope and Content Note: Deposition of Thomas Dean.
Reel   1	[1832?) March 28 Scope and Content Note: Letter to John W. Quinney or Thomas Dean from I.W. Beall.
Reel   1	1832 February 12 Scope and Content Note: List, payment to be made.
Reel   1	1836 August 26 Scope and Content Note: Letter to T. Dean from S. Boyd.