1883 MICHIGAN INDIAN AGENT'S LEDGER BOOK
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1883 MICHIGAN INDIAN AGENT'S LEDGER BOOK
Fine content 1883 travelling Indian agent's ledger book: "Treaty No. 5 Indian Pay Sheets", approx. 25pp., 16" x 15", in which the agent records payments made to members of various Indian bands settled between Grand Rapids and Cumberland. Agent Angus Mackay records his visits to ten different bands, all named, and the amounts paid to "Chiefs...Headmen...Indians", also the number of Indians born, deceased, and moved. About 3,100 Indians are within the agent's territory, and hundreds are listed by name, also in many cases with their given Indian name. Chiefs and other administrators are identified, as are those with deceased children. Very good.
Fine content 1883 travelling Indian agent's ledger book: "Treaty No. 5 Indian Pay Sheets", approx. 25pp., 16" x 15", in which the agent records payments made to members of various Indian bands settled between Grand Rapids and Cumberland. Agent Angus Mackay records his visits to ten different bands, all named, and the amounts paid to "Chiefs...Headmen...Indians", also the number of Indians born, deceased, and moved. About 3,100 Indians are within the agent's territory, and hundreds are listed by name, also in many cases with their given Indian name. Chiefs and other administrators are identified, as are those with deceased children. Very good.
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1883 MICHIGAN INDIAN AGENT'S LEDGER BOOK
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