Reading and writing Hope Leslie: Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Indian "connections"

New England Quarterly

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 415-442

  Weierman, Karen Woods ^a  

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EID: 60950142822     PISSN: 00284866     EISSN: 19372213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1559786     Document Type: Review

References (26)

1. John Demos, The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America (New York: Vintage Books, 199.4).
2. Demos, The Unredeemed Captive, pp. 19-35;
3. and Patrick Frazier, The Mohicans of Stockbridge (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992), pp. 16-17.
4. Hilary E. Wyss, Writing Indians: Literacy, Christianity, and Native Community in Early America (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000), pp. 87-90.
5. Colin G. Calloway, The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 85.
6. Frazier, The Mohicans of Stockhridge, pp. 99-100, 102-3;
7. Axtell, 'The Rise and Fall of the Stockhridge Indian Schools," pp. 371-75.
8. Lion G. Miles, "The Red Man Dispossessed: The Williams Family and the Alienation of Indian Land in Stockhridge, Massachusetts, 1736-1818," New England Quarterly 67 (March 1994): 46-76,
9. Frazier, The Mohicans of Stockbridge, pp. 188-90.
10. Calloway, The American Revolution in Indian Country, pp. 85, 100-101, 107.
11. Miles, 'The Red Man Dispossessed," p. 295;
12. The Power of Her Sympathy: The Autobiography and Journal of Catharine Maria Sedgwick, ed. Mary Kelley (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1993), pp. 46-47.
13. Sedgwick, Autobiography and Journal, pp. 45-50.
14. Jill Lepore, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998), pp. 207-6.
15. T. S. Gold, Historical Records of the Town of Cornwall, Litchfield County, Connecticut (Hartford: Case, Lockwood, and Brainard, 1877), p. 29,
16. and Edward C. Starr, A History of Cornwall, Connecticut: A Typical New England Town (New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse, and Taylor, 1926), p. 150.
17. Thurman Willdns, Cherokee Tragedy: The Ridge Family and the Decimation of a People, 2d ed. rev. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986), p. 146.
18. quoted by Ralph Henry Gabriel, in his Elias Boudinot, Cherokee, and His America (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1941), p. 62.
19. Quarterly Report of the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Conn., 1 March 1824, no. 16, pp. 2-3, located in the collections of Kent State University.
20. Gabriel, Elias Boudinot, pp. 76-77.
21. Hubert M. Sedgwick, A Scdgwick Genealogy: Descendants of Deacon Benjamin Sedgwick (New Haven: New Haven Colony Historical Society, 1961), pp. 3-5, 11-12, 29-30.
22. For more information on the Cherokee removal crisis, see Thurman Wilkins's Cherokee Tragedy: The Story of the Ridge Family and the Decimation of a People (New York: Macmillan, 1970),
23. For the history of missionaries and the Cherokee Nation, see William G. McLoughlin's Cherokees and Missionaries, 1789-1839 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984).
24. Lepore, The Name of War, pp. 208-9;
25. Francis Paul Prucha, intro, to Cherokee Removal: The "William Penn" Essays and Other Writings by Jeremiah Evarts (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1981), pp. 6-10.
26. For the life of General John Sedgwick, see Emily Sedgwick Welch, A Biographical Sketch: John Sedgwick, Major-General (New York: De Vinne Press, 1899).