Evelyn A. Benson Manuscript
MS 037
AUTHOR : Benson, Evelyn Abraham
TITLE : "Conestoga Indian treaties and traders, 1682-1722"
DATES : 1976
SIZE : 3 files (88 pages)
ARRANGEMENT : Arranged by author.
HISTORY : Evelyn Abraham Benson was a Lancaster, Pennsylvania historian who authored several articles and books on Colonial Pennsylvania and Native American history.
CONTENTS: Contains a manuscript that documents the contact between the Native Americans and the early settlers in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It later formed the basis for a condensed version that appeared in Millersville-Penn Manor Community History, ed. Robert E. Coley, James A. Jolly, and Carole E. Slotter, published in 1976. Includes a partial revision and illustrative materials used with the published article.
SUBJECTS : Manuscripts -- Pennsylvania -- Lancaster County.
Conestoga Indians.
Indians of North America -- Pennsylvania.
Lancaster County (Pa.) -- History -- Sources.
Benson, Evelyn Abraham.
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