This collection comprises records of the Brothertown Indian Nation, an amalgamation of indigenous peoples from the Mohegan, Pequot, Niantic, Narrangansett, Montaukett, and Tunxis tribes from southern New England and New York. Beginning in 1775 the Brothertown settled in today's Deansboro, New York, on land granted them by the Oneida.
Copies of treaties, assignments of lots within Brotherton lands, accounts forwarded by the Superintendents to the Governor of New York. Large manuscript daybook entitled “Brothertown Records” on the spine, with copies of treaties, assignments of lots, accounts of transactions from 1774-1804.
Titlefrom content of broadside after header information.; At head of title: Boston Museum! Acting and Stage manager Mr. E. F. Keach.; Broadside advertising musical ensemble performances by Bryant's Minstrels at Boston Museum on Friday, August 2,1861.; Evan Evans Hern (1823-1877) performed under the stage name "Eph Horn" -- Burnt Cork and Tambourines: A Source Book for Negro Minstrelsy, by William Slout;
A scarce and important banjo tutor, by a well known performer. Many of the tunes are by the author, who led Buckley's Serenaders, a long popular minstrel troupe. This is probably a somewhat later printing, but still preserving the cover diagram of the fretless minstrel pitched instrument.