Title: Cutting Marsh Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1802-1860

Creator:

• Marsh, Cutting, 1800-1873

Call Number: Wis Mss AU; Micro 1016; Micro 23

Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and 2 reels of microfilm (35 mm)

Repository:

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

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

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Abstract:

Correspondence and diaries of Cutting Marsh, a missionary to the Stockbridge Indians in Wisconsin. Also included are volumes in which Marsh jotted down memoranda on his reflections while a student, his missionary work at Maumee, Ohio, in the winter of 1829-1830, and his eighteen years among the Stockbridge people, with many comments on Indian life, vocabulary, and his own experiences. Diaries, 1830-1848, contain a narrative of his religious work at Statesburg and Stockbridge; and an expedition in the summer of 1834 to the Sauk and Fox Indians at Rock Island and up the Des Moines. Additional diaries, 1848-1856, concern his preaching career in the Wisconsin pineries, with headquarters at Waupaca.

Note:

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Language: English, Sauk, Fox, Ho-Chunk, Ottawa

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About one half of the correspondence consists of Marsh's drafts of reports to the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge, many of which are printed in Volume XV of the Wisconsin Historical Collections (pages 39-204). The remaining letters are from Marsh's former instructors at Andover, administrators in Indian work, or fellow missionaries, including: John Codman, Jeremiah Evarts, John A. Vinton, O.A. Taylor, Leonard Woods, all of Massachusetts; William T. Boutwell, Mrs. Julia E. Stevens, and Capt. S. Loomis, of Minnesota; Col. William Davenport, L.H. Loss, S.G. Spees of Illinois; Mrs. A.F. Davis and George N. Smith of Michigan; G.E. Stowe of Ohio; Dr. R.S. Satterlee of Florida; Jesse Voegler of Canada; and Sherman Hall, Stephen Peet, Moses Ordway, Jeremiah Porter, Dr. Charles McDougall, Charles Lord, William H. Spencer, William A. Niles, Levi Konkapot, and John W. Quinney, all of Wisconsin.

The collection also contains 58 small notebooks and journals which may be classified as follows: 17 miscellaneous notebooks in which Marsh jotted down memoranda on his reflections while a student, his missionary work at Maumee, Ohio, in the winter of 1829-1830, his eighteen years among the Stockbridge people with comments on Indian life, intemperance, archaeological remains, trips to neighboring settlements, modes of travel, visitors to the mission, work of fellow missionaries, letters written and received, orders for religious publications, expenses, Indian vocabularies, etc.; 12 journals which he kept while with the Stockbridge Indians, 1830-1848, at Statesburg and Stockbridge, a narrative of his religious work; 6 journals of an expedition to the Sauk and Fox Indians in the summer of 1834 made by way of the Fox-Wisconsin route and the Mississippi to Rock Island and thence up the Des Moines (also available on Micro 1016); and 23 journals, 1848-1856, of his preaching career in the Wisconsin pineries, with headquarters at Waupaca.

Letters to the American Board of Commissions for Foreign Missions are available only on microfilm (Micro 23). Originals of the letters on Micro 23 are at the United Church Board for World Ministries, Boston, Massachusetts. (These records may now be held at the Houghton Library, Harvard University.)

Use Restrictions

Use of the correspondence on Micro 23 for publication requires permission of the United Church Board for Foreign Missions. (See American Board of Commissioner for Foreign Missions archives at Houghton Library, Harvard University (ABC 1-91).)

Acquisition Information

Portions presented by Charles F. Gunther, place and date unknown.

Wis Mss AU	Correspondence Language: In English with catalogs of words in Sauk, Fox, and Ho-Chunk.
Box   1 Folder   1	Original, 1830-1845
Box   1 Folder   2	Original, 1846-1860, undated
Micro 23 Reel   1	American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mission from Marsh, 1830-1845 Scope and Content Note: Relating to missionary activities in Wisconsin at Statesburg and Stockbridge. Note: Original correspondence held by the United Church Board for World Ministries, Boston, Massachusetts. [May actually be held at the Houghton Library, Harvard University (American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions archives, ABC 1-91.)]
Wis Mss AU	Notebooks and Journals
Box   2	Diary, 1829 November 25-1830 January 26 Language: In English with Ottawa, Sauk, and Fox.
Box   2	Journal, 1830 May 2-1831 March 14
Box   2	1831 March 18-September 26
Box   2	1831 October 10-1832 June 9
Box   2	1832 June 18-December 3
Box   2	1832 December 7-1833 July 21
Box   2	1833 July 24-December 8
Box   2	1833 December 12-1834 March 18
Box   2	1834 March 23-1836 February 9
Box   2	1836 March 28-1839 January 18
Box   2	1839 July 12-1841 January 1
Box   2	Text book, 1840 February 10-1848 September 10 Note: With Professor Stewarts Lectures on the Revelation of St. John, 1826 June 10 (starting in back of volume).
Box   2	Journal, 1841 January 5-1848 April 10
Box   2	1848 April 14-November 5
Wis Mss AU/Micro 1016	Diary of Sauk-Fox Trip Note: Available as an electronic reproduction. Also available on microfilm (Micro 1016).
Box   2 Reel/Frame   1/1-19	No. 1, 1834 June 12-July 4 Language: In English with some Sauk and Fox.
Box   2 Reel/Frame   1/20-56	No. 2, 1834 July 12-August 2
Box   2 Reel/Frame   1/57-86	No. 3, 1834 August 3-8
Box   2 Reel/Frame   1/87-115	No. 4, 1834 August 10-16
Box   2 Reel/Frame   1/116-163	No. 5, 1834 August 17-September 1
Box   2 Reel/Frame   1/164-197	No. 6, 1834 September 2-19, also 1834 October 13
Wis Mss AU Box   2	Addresses to Indians, undated
Box   2	“A Dream of Mr. Bartlett,” 1824 June 8
Box   2	Notes on sermons, 1827 November 25-1833 June
Box   2	Memorandum, 1829 August-November
Box   2	1830 January 29-September 28 Note: Cover: Dr. Paysons Three Rules.
Box   2	Diary, 1831 December 5-1832 May 1
Box   2	Memorandum, 1834? May 21-1835 July 15
Box   2	Memoranda on the Sauk and Fox trip, 1834
Box   2	Memorandum, 1837 April-1841 August 4
Box   2	Notebook no. 1, 1836 October-1837 March 26
Box   2	Notebook no. 2, 1837 March 27-July 20
Box   2	“Subjects in Conference,” undated
Box   2	Expenses and memorandum, undated
Box   2	“Names of Persons,” undated
Box   2	Notebook miscellaneous, 1829?
Box   2	1849 May 17-June
Box   2	1849 June-July
Box   2	1849 July-November
Box   2	1849 November 2-November 30 Note: Published in Stevens Point Daily Journal, October 5, 1972.
Box   2	1849 November 30-1850 February 4
Box   2	1849 December 21-30, 1850 June 1-20
Box   2	Journal, 1850 February 5-20
Box   2	Journal, 1850 May 23-June 17
Box   2	Journal, 1850 June 20-July 2
Box   2	Journal, 1850 July 6-August 25
Box   2	Journal, 1850 September 24-November 10
Box   2	Journal, 1850 November 16-December 5
Box   2	Journal, 1850 December 5-1851 January 6
Box   2	Journal, 1851 March
Box   2	Journal, 1851 May
Box   2	Journal, 1851 May 30-June 13
Box   2	Journal, 1851 July 26-August 23
Box   2	Journal, 1851 July 26-1852 March 1
Box   2	Journal, 1852 April 6-1853 June 24 Note: Published in Stevens Point Daily Journal, February 5, 1973.
Box   2	Journal, 1853 January 27-October 30
Box   2	Journal, 1853 October-1855 January 21
Box   2	“Bible Society,” 1852
Box   2	1855 January 29-1856 July 27
Box   2	Sauk vocabulary, undated