POND FAMILY:
An Inventory of Their Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society
Manuscripts Collection
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OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Pond (Family : Minn.), creator. | |
| Title: | Pond family papers. | |
| Dates: | 1833-2009 (bulk 1833-1935). | |
| Language: | Materials in English, Dakota, and Hebrew. | |
| Abstract: | Papers documenting the history of a Minnesota pioneer family, particularly the ministry of brothers Samuel W. and Gideon H. Pond, early Presbyterian missionaries among the Dakota Indians. | |
| Quantity: | 9.7 cubic feet (21 boxes including 40 volumes, 1 oversize folder, unboxed, 2 folders in Reserve, and 2 microfilm reels). | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
SCOPE AND CONTENTS
Materials include photocopied and original correspondence, some with transcripts, photocopied and original diaries, photocopied and original sermons, addresses, real property records, poems, lexicons, a Dakota grammar, genealogies, an autograph album, reminiscences, account books, photocopied and microfilmed scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings.
The Pond family papers include the correspondence, diaries, accounts, newspaper clippings, sermons, and other materials written by or about various members of the Pond family. Among them are Gideon Hollister Pond (1810-1878) and Samuel William Pond (1808-1891), pioneer missionaries to the Dakota Indians. (For a fuller historical recounting, please see the essay written by Minnesota Historical Society curator of manuscripts Ethel B. Virtue, below).
The Pond family papers are partially organized into the following series: (1) Correspondence and miscellaneous papers, (2) Correspondence (photocopies), and (3) Transcripts of Pond diaries, narratives, and sermons. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers (1) includes both handwritten letters and typescripts of letters (the typescripts’ originating letters may or may not be included here). Researchers are advised to check Correspondence (photocopies) (2), which includes photocopies of some original letters appearing in the first series and others that do not. Transcripts of Pond diaries, narratives, and sermons (3) includes typescripts of Gideon Pond's diaries (1836-1856), a typescript of Narrative of Samuel W. Pond (1881); and sermons delivered by the Ponds (1857-1870).
Correspondence and miscellaneous papers includes letters between the Pond brothers and members of their families in Connecticut, and other missionaries such as Alexander G. Huggins, Jonas Pettijohn, Samuel Dentan, Daniel Gavin, Stephen R. Riggs, Thomas S. Williamson, William T. Boutwell, and the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The papers also deal with the Pond brothers' missionary activities at Lac Qui Parle and other places in Minnesota, describing the habits, customs, and beliefs of the Dakota Indians and the brothers’ efforts to learn the Dakota language. Of special interest are Dakota manuscripts dictated by Jack Frazier. Some of the letters have been published in Two Volunteer Missionaries Among the Dakotas (Boston and Chicago, 1893), by Samuel W. Pond, Jr. (1850-1916).
Additional letters are addressed to Jennette C. Pond (1842-1867, Samuel W. Pond's daughter), Rebecca Cordelia Pond (1844-1912, Samuel W. Pond's daughter, who married William J. Dean), Jennette Cordelia Dean Krafft (1868-1940, William J. and Rebecca C. Dean's daughter, who married Edwin J. Krafft), Samuel W. Pond, Rebecca Pond (1800-1887, Samuel and Gideon's sister, who married Starr Titus, then Herman Hine), and Ruth Hine Pond (1838-1905, Gideon's daughter, who married Allen L. Goodrich). Among the letter writers are Samuel W. Pond, Samuel W. Pond, Jr., Cordelia Eggleston Pond (1815-1852, Samuel's first wife), Rebecca C. Pond (Samuel's daughter), George H. Pond (1843-1866, Gideon's son), Mary Margaret Poage Pond (1845-1932, Gideon's daughter, who married Philip Hynes), Ruth H. Pond, Allen L. Goodrich (Gideon's son-in -law), Jonas Pettijohn, F. H. Pettijohn, Fritz G. Hollister, Alfred Riggs, Anna Riggs, William J. Dean, Jennie M. Eggleston, Eliza Huggins, and Mary Huggins.
The subject matter is heavily concentrated on family affairs, since many of the correspondents were either related or enjoyed ties of common experiences as missionaries. There is also substantial data on the churches served, religious ideas and spiritual life, farming operations, the Civil War (especially the letters of Allen L. Goodrich, a private in the 6th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company D), education (including Samuel W. Pond, Jr.'s attendance at the University of Minnesota, 1869-1870), the Crow Creek Agency, Fort Thompson in Dakota Territory, and travels to various parts of the United States.
Additionally, the Gideon Pond and Ruth Pond Goodrich letters cover family matters, Indian relations, church affairs, and especially daily life in (what became) Bloomington, Minnesota.
Correspondence and miscellaneous papers (1) also includes two genealogies (both found in the undated file); an advertising circular issued by C. A. Widstrand, music teacher and piano tuner, Minneapolis (filed in undated); a history of the Shakopee Church (filed in undated); newspaper clippings regarding the Pond family; poems; programs; and reminiscences.
Among the miscellaneous papers are a photocopied scrapbook (1890-1969) compiled by Rebecca Maybelle Pond (George A. Pond's daughter), newspaper clippings (undated and 1891-1958), and a list of gravestone inscriptions from cemeteries in Washington, Connecticut (1948).
Four microfilmed scrapbooks (undated and 1833-1967) contain information on many Pond family members, including brothers Samuel William and Gideon Hollister Pond; Samuel's sons Samuel William Pond, Jr. and Elnathan Judson Pond; and George A. Pond and his wife, Martha Crow Pond. George A. Pond, son of Elnathan Judson Pond, was a University of Minnesota professor of farm management. Dr. Fred H. Buck, author of "An Historical Sketch of the First Presbyterian Church of Shakopee," was a Shakopee medical doctor. The church was begun as a mission by Samuel William Pond in 1846 at the invitation of Shakopee, a Dakota chief.
The George H. Pond papers consist of student essays. George (1843-1866), Gideon H. Pond's second oldest son, was attending Marietta College (Marietta, Ohio), when he died of cholera in October 1866.
Ethel B. Virtue's Essay on the Pond Family Papers
Through the courtesy of Mrs. Frances Pond-Titus of (908 North 18th Street) Boise, Idaho, the Society was permitted to make photostatic copies of about two hundred letters of Samuel W. and Gideon H. Pond, early missionaries to the Dakota Indians of Minnesota. The Pond brothers were of Puritan ancestry and residents of Washington, Connecticut, which was swept by an old-fashioned New England revival circa 1831. The brothers were both converted at this time and determined to devote their lives to the cause of spreading the gospel they had so recently experienced.
In accordance with this determination the elder brother, Samuel, headed west in spring 1833 to find a suitable field for their missionary labors. He followed the usual Ohio route westward to St. Louis and then up the Mississippi and Fever rivers to the frontier lead mining town of Galena, Illinois, where he spent the winter of 1833-1834. Here he learned by chance one day from a former settler of the Lord Selkirk colony at Pembina of a wild and roving tribe of Indians, who dwelt on the vast prairies to the northwest in total ignorance of the true faith. He decided that these heathen people should be the goal of his first mission and wrote of this decision to his brother, Gideon, who joined him at Galena in the spring of 1834, when the brothers took passage on the steamer Warrior for the Upper Mississippi landing at Fort Snelling on May 6. Though they had entered the Indian country without authority from the government they were kindly received by fort officials and assigned temporary quarters.
At the suggestion of Major Taliaferro, Indian agent, they built their first mission house near the Indian village of Cloud-man on Lake Calhoun’s east shore. When the Reverend Jedediah Stevens arrived in 1835, he persuaded the brothers to assist him in establishing a mission on the shores of Lake Harriet, and this station was occupied until the removal of the Indians from the lake in 1839-1840. During this period Samuel W. Pond spent the greater part of his time at the Lake Harriet mission making occasional hunting trips with the Indians for the purpose of learning their language and going on several visits to Lac qui Parle. In 1836 Gideon joined Dr. Williamson at the station at Lac qui Parle and remained there for three years. In the same summer Samuel returned to Connecticut to study for the ministry, was ordained in March 1837, and appointed a regular missionary by the American Board. In November 1837 Gideon was married at Lac qui Parle to Miss Sarah Poage, a sister of Mrs. Thomas S. Williamson and a teacher in the mission. The following November Samuel followed in his brother's footsteps, marrying a teacher at the Lake Harriet station, a Miss Cordelia Eggleston, a sister of Mrs. J. D. Stevens.
The year 1839 found the brothers again together at Lake Harriet. This year also marked a climax in the Ojibwa-Dakota warfare, and the Dakota about the lake became so fearful of their enemies to the north and the officials at the fort so harassed by their frequent raids that it was decided to remove the Indians from this locality. Reverend Stevens resigned from the service of the American Board about this time and the Ponds remaining by the lake several months after the removal of the Indians, in 1840 rented the Baker house in the vicinity of the fort residing there with their families until 1843, when a new station was built at Oak Grove. During this interval, however, Samuel Pond went to Lac qui Parle to relieve Dr. Riggs, who spent the year 1842-1843 in the East. Gideon meanwhile acted as farmer for the Indians and laid the plans for the new mission. Upon Mr. Riggs’ return in 1843, Samuel took charge of affairs at Oak Grove while Gideon visited relatives in Connecticut and supervised the printing of a Dakota catechism prepared by his brother.
A Dakota presbytery was organized in 1845 composed of the three missionaries Dr. Williamson, Dr. Riggs, and Reverend Samuel Pond. After the station at Oak Grove became well established, Reverend Samuel Pond began to look about for the site of another mission and in 1846 was invited by Chief Little Six, or Shakopee, to live with his band at Prairieville, or Tintatonwan. The invitation was accepted, and here at Prairieville (later called Shakopee) the elder Pond spent the remainder of his life as missionary to the Dakota until their removal in 1852 and then as minister to the white settlers until 1866 when he resigned his charge to live in quiet retirement until his death in 1891.
At Oak Grove, which was later organized as Bloomington, Gideon served the Dakota Indians and then the white settlers, resigning his charge in 1873, just five years before his death. During this time he farmed for the Indians, studied for the ministry and was ordained elder in the Presbyterian church in 1848. He represented his district in the first territorial legislature, which met in 1849, and in 1850 became the editor of The Dakota Friend, a periodical printed in both the Dakota and English language.
The Pond papers cover the entire period of the Pond brothers' ministry in Minnesota, beginning with Samuel’s letters written from Galena in 1833 urging his brother to join him in the mission to the Dakota and closing with a letter to his son, Samuel, written near the end of his life, telling of the first Dakota Indian who learned to read and write. The majority of the letters consist of those written during the period from 1833-1850 by the brothers to each other and to their relatives in the East and those received from the various missionaries at Lac qui Parle, Traverse des Sioux, Red Wing, Leech Lake and Pokegama. They relate the daily life and activities of the missions, the habits, customs and beliefs of the Indians, the progress made in teaching them the arts of reading and writing and farming, and the difficulties experienced in making them understand the tenets of the Christian faith. Much of the early missionaries’ time was spent in learning the Dakota language and reducing it to writing. Nearly every one of the early letters tells of the progress made in this difficult and tedious task, which began with the formation of the Pond alphabet in summer 1834 and continued with the compilation of the Dakota lexicon finally published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1852. A Dakota grammar was also compiled and various portions of the scriptures and many hymns translated into the Dakota language. Particularly do the letters of Dr. Williamson and Dr. Riggs to the Ponds deal with this subject.
The letters of this collection, together with a narrative of the brothers' missionary labors written by Samuel Pond in later life (volumes 6-7 of this collection), have been used by Samuel W. Pond, Jr. in his writing of Two Volunteer Missionaries Among the Dakotas (Boston and Chicago, 1893). About twenty of the letters have been quoted in whole or in part in this volume, ten of which were written by the elder Pond and relate incidents of the early period of missionary labor, 1833-1838. Among the others are three letters of Gideon Pond, one of Mrs. Daniel Gavin (née Miss Cornelia Stevens), written at Red Wing; one, of S. B. Treat, secretary of the American Board, written in 1852; and two of General Sibley dated 1877 and 1889. Some letters are printed that are not found in this collection, and frequent references and quotations are made from a journal kept by Gideon Pond. A manuscript account of the perilous journey made on foot to Lac qui Parle by Samuel in late winter 1836, which is in this collection, has been printed entire in Two Volunteer Missionaries Among the Dakotas.
However, considerable material remains that has not been made use of, particularly in letters describing the activities of missions other than those of the Ponds and especially during the later period of their activity when the influence of the encroaching white settlements, the hostility of the Indians, and the payment of government annuities did so much to counteract all the missionaries’ efforts for the improvement of the Dakota. There are found some interesting and informing comments on the relation of the fur traders to the missions in the letters of the various missionaries in 1850. A letter written by Dr. Williamson at Kaposia in January 1849 suggests the possibility of the establishment of manual labor schools for the natives and the development of temperance societies among them. Writing in 1850, Dr. Riggs speaks of the educational policy for the Dakota and is hopeful for its embodiment in the coming treaty. A series of letters covering the period 1837-1848, written by David Greene, secretary of the American Board in Boston, constantly advises patience and economy in the prosecution of the work. The exhortation to patience was doubtless a much needed form of encouragement but the latter admonition would hardly seem necessary when Samuel W. Pond was receiving at the time of his marriage in 1838 an annual salary of $200. The letters of Alexander Huggins and Jonas Pettijohn, Indian farmers and assistants at Lac qui Parle, give a less religious and more secular view of life at that station and relate many interesting and amusing incidents. A few letters of interest from officials connected with the fort have been preserved. Among these are two from Major Taliaferro, the first one addressed to Samuel Pond while on leave of absence in Connecticut in 1836-1837. In this the major describes affairs at the fort and depicts a rather amusing picture of Reverend Stevens at the Lake Harriet mission. The second letter was penned several years later when misfortune had overtaken the former Indian agent in his home in Bedford, Pennsylvania.
ARRANGEMENT
These documents are organized into the following sections:
| Correspondence and Papers | ||
| Diaries, Dakota-Language Dictionaries, Personal Account Books, Scrapbooks, and Writings | ||
| Pond Family Scrapbooks | ||
| Gideon H. Pond Materials | ||
| Other Family Members' Papers/Next Generation | ||
| Closed Originals | ||
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Access Restrictions:
Access to the two-volume Narrative of Samuel W. Pond (1881) is closed for preservation purposes.
Access to and use of reserve materials requires the curator's permission.
Researchers wishing to see restricted materials must apply for permission. Please consult the reference staff for more information.
Use Restrictions:
Copyright in the transcripts of the diary and the trip log book of Gideon H. Pond and in the transcripts of the diaries of Hermon Hine Pond is reserved until February 23, 2035.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Pond Family Papers. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Microfilm:
M21: Narrative of Samuel W. Pond (1881), St. Paul, Minn. : Minnesota Historical Society, 1963. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
M187: Pond family scrapbooks (1833-1967), St. Paul, Minn. : Minnesota Historical Society, 1970?. 1 reel ; 35 mm.
Microfilm is available for sale or loan from the Minnesota Historical Society.
Accession Information:
Accession numbers: 1778E21; 1819; 1839F; 2275; 2961; 3856; 4019; 4730; 5778; 6259a; 6266; 7011; 7565; 8448; 9087; 9677; 10,097; 11,134; 11,143; 13,654; 14,026; 14,890; 15,253; 16,146; 16,158; 16,772; 17,131
Processing Information:
The papers are a consolidation of several collections that existed in the manuscripts collection before 1967. They include the collection formerly titled the Gideon H. and Samuel W. Pond Papers, the Gideon Pond, Jr. Papers, and the Rebecca Cordelia Pond Papers, which were acquired by the Society in 1964 but not cataloged until 1967.
Catalog ID number: 990017317520104294
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS
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| P437 | 1 | Correspondence and miscellaneous papers, undated and 1833-1838. 14 folders. | |||||||||||
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| P437 | 2 | Correspondence and miscellaneous papers, 1839-1844. 15 folders. | |||||||||||
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| P437 | 3 | Correspondence and miscellaneous papers, 1845-1851. 15 folders. | |||||||||||
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| P437 | 4 | Correspondence and miscellaneous papers, 1852-1935. 16 folders. | |||||||||||
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| P437 | 5 | Correspondence, 1833-1846. 5 folders. Photocopies. | |||||||||||
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| P437 | 6 | Correspondence, 1848-1904. 5 folders. Photocopies. | |||||||||||
DIARIES, DAKOTA-LANGUAGE DICTIONARIES, PERSONAL ACCOUNT BOOKS,
SCRAPBOOKS, AND WRITINGS
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| P437 | 7 | Transcripts of Pond diaries, narratives, and sermons, 1836-1871. 5 folders. | |||||||||||
| Includes typescript of two-volume Narrative of Samuel W. Pond (1881); see also microfilmed reproduction of original volumes (M21). | |||||||||||||
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| P437 | 8 | Volumes 1-2: English-Dakota lexicons 1 and 2, undated. 2 volumes. | |||||||||||
| Volume 3: Dakota-English lexicon, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Copy made by Methodist missionaries. | |||||||||||||
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| P437 | 9 | Volume 4: Dakota-English lexicon, undated. | |||||||||||
| Incomplete copy. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 5: Gideon H. Pond's Bible, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Includes Pond family genealogical data. | |||||||||||||
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| M21 | 1 | Volumes 6-7: Narrative of Samuel W. Pond, 1881. 2 volumes on 1 microfilm reel. | |||||||||||
| Reminiscence describing the principal events in the Pond brothers' lives from 1831 to ca. 1881. See also typescript of this same narrative. | |||||||||||||
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| P437 | 10 | Volume 8: Autograph album kept by Mrs. Gideon Pond's mother, undated. | |||||||||||
| Volume 9: Bloomington Temperance Society records, 1871-1875. | |||||||||||||
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| P437 | 11 | Volume 10: Day book, H. H. Pond (Bloomington, Minnesota), 1856-1871, 1878-1880. | |||||||||||
| Includes a register of Bloomington's Sabbath School (April 1856-April 1871) and H. H. Pond's accounts (1878-1880.) | |||||||||||||
| Volume 11: The Dakotas of Minnesota or Recollections of the Dakotas as They Were in 1834, circa 1906. | |||||||||||||
| Samuel W. Pond's 229-page typescript, which was published in Minnesota Historical Society Collections, volume 12 (1908), and as The Dakota or Sioux in Minnesota as They Were in 1834 (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1986). | |||||||||||||
| See also the original 317-page manuscript in this collection. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 12: Janet Pond's diary, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Known affectionately as Janet, Jennette Clarissa Pond (1842-1867) was Samuel W. Pond's oldest child. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 13: Janet Pond's diary, August 1850-January 1851. | |||||||||||||
| Ages eight and nine. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 14: Janet Pond's diary, June 1852-March 1853. | |||||||||||||
| Ages ten and eleven. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 15: Janet Pond's diary, October 1853-November 1854. | |||||||||||||
| Ages eleven and twelve. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 16: Janet Pond's diary, November 1854. | |||||||||||||
| Age twelve. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 17: Janet Pond's diary, March 1855-April 1856. | |||||||||||||
| Ages thirteen and fourteen. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 18: Janet Pond's diary, September 1856. | |||||||||||||
| Age fourteen. | |||||||||||||
| Diary, 1858. | |||||||||||||
| Presumably a continuation of Janet Pond's diaries. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 19: Dakota grammar, 1840? | |||||||||||||
| Entry on first page reads, "Joseph Frazier, Oct. 19,1840." | |||||||||||||
| Volume 20: Manuscript fragments of a Dakota grammar or Bible, undated. | |||||||||||||
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| P437 | 12 | Volume 21: Unidentified volume in Dakota language, undated. | |||||||||||
| Volume 22: Samuel W. Pond's Hebrew-Dakota Dictionary, 1842. | |||||||||||||
| See Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut's article, "A Hebrew-Dakota Dictionary" in the American Jewish Historical Society's journal, volume 42, number 4 (June 1953), page 361. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 23: Manuscript fragment of Dakota Bible, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 24: Manuscript fragment of Dakota grammar by Samuel W. Pond, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 25: Review of Life and Personal Recollections, by Samuel W. Pond, undated. | |||||||||||||
| A 209-page typescript. | |||||||||||||
| See also volume 37: Review of Life manuscript (1874). | |||||||||||||
| Volume 26: The Cabin by the Lake or the Story of Two Pioneers, undated. | |||||||||||||
| This 349-page typescript is the source material for Samuel W. Pond, Jr.'s Two Volunteer Missionaries Among the Dakotas (1893). | |||||||||||||
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| P437 | 13 | Volume 27: Gideon H. Pond, Jr. diary, 1885. | |||||||||||
| Diary entries, including some by Pond's wife, cover social life and customs near Bloomington, Minnesota, the weather, the raising of bees, and the prices for farm products and household supplies. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 28: Gideon H. Pond, Jr. diary, April 1886-1889. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 29: Gideon H. Pond, Jr. diary, 1892-1899. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 30: Gideon H. Pond, Jr. diary, 1899-1904. | |||||||||||||
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| P437 | 14 | Volume 31: Gideon H. Pond, Jr. diary, May 1904-1914. | |||||||||||
| Volume 32: Gideon H. Pond, Jr.'s cash account book, 1886-1895. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 33: Gideon H. Pond, Jr.'s cash account book, 1873-1889. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 34: Pond brothers accounts, Riverside farm, 1882-1885. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 35: Pond brothers accounts, Riverside farm, 1884-1886. | |||||||||||||
| Includes the Oak Grove Presbyterian Church's constitution of brotherhood. | |||||||||||||
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| P437 | 15 | Volume 36: Pond brothers accounts, Riverside stock farm, 1886-1888. | |||||||||||
| Volume 37: Review of Life, by Samuel W. Pond, 1874. | |||||||||||||
| A 109-page manuscript. | |||||||||||||
| See also volume 25: typescript of Review of Life and Personal Recollections. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 38: Poetry and scriptural writings by Samuel W. Pond, circa 1830s-1940s. | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous Pond family writings and papers, undated and 1837-1867, 1933, 1948, 1970. 2 folders. | |||||||||||||
| Materials include a manuscript entitled "An Incomplete Record of the Coming of S. W. Pond and his Brother to Minnesota and Their Early Living Here Among the Indians," by Samuel W. Pond; Samuel W. Pond's ordination certificate (1837); the subscription list for the First Presbyterian Church building of Shakopee, Minnesota; a paper written by Elnathan J. Pond entitled, "Revelation of Science," and a diary (March 26, 1891-February 4, 1892) he kept regarding the management of his farm and other events, including the death of Samuel W. Pond (December 12, 1891); a play script (1934) recalling Samuel and Gideon Pond's arrival in Minnesota; a biography of Peter Pond by Harold S. Pond (1970); and writings and addresses by Samuel W. Pond, Jr., Samuel W. Pond's great-grandson, Browne Barr, and George A. Pond, a professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota Institute of Agriculture. | |||||||||||||
| Elnathan J. Pond papers and diary, undated and 1891-1892. | |||||||||||||
| Samuel Pond: Transcription of Little Mac poem on George McClellan, circa 1964. | |||||||||||||
| Samuel W. Pond, Jr. addresses, undated, 1905-1906. | |||||||||||||
| George A. Pond papers, undated, 1935, 1953, 1967. | |||||||||||||
| Rebecca Maybelle Pond's scrapbook, 1890-1969. | |||||||||||||
| Rebecca was George A. Pond's daughter and Samuel W. Pond's granddaughter. | |||||||||||||
| Newspaper clippings, undated and 1891-1958. | |||||||||||||
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| P437 | 16 | Cemeteries in Washington, Connecticut, 1948. | |||||||||||
| The Dakotas of Minnesota, or Recollections of the Dakotas as They Were in 1834, undated. | |||||||||||||
| A 317-page manuscript of Samuel W. Pond's work. | |||||||||||||
| See also volume 11: the 229-page transcript. | |||||||||||||
| Transcripts of letters, 1833-1853. | |||||||||||||
| Transcripts of letters from Gideon and Samuel Pond. The majority are to Preston Hollister (a maternal uncle), some are to their sister Rebecca Hine, and some are to other relatives. Most letters were written at St. Peter, Minnesota, and mailed at Fort Snelling. Letters relate description of life at the fort, of Indian communities, of the Pond's evangelizing work, and of Samuel's evolving faith. | |||||||||||||
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| +221 | 1 | Real property records, 1856-1920. | |||||||||||
| Includes a blueprint map of the Pond property near Shakopee, Minnesota; land patents issued to Samuel W. Pond (1856-1857); successive deeds to the property (1877-1878, 1892-1893); and an abstract of title (1920). | |||||||||||||
POND FAMILY SCRAPBOOKS
Original four scrapbooks were loaned by Mrs. Martha Crow (George A.) Pond for microfilming. In microfilming, volumes 3 and 4 were transposed; the order of the volumes on the microfilm is 1, 2, 4, 3.
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| M187 | 1 | Volume 1: Pond Family Association, undated and 1833-1910, 1930-1967. | |||||||||||
| This volume consists of two sections. The first contains the Pond Family Association of Minnesota's articles of incorporation; typed copies of letters written by Samuel William and Gideon Pond (1833, 1849, 1872); a poem written by Samuel Pond (1886); obituary notices for Samuel Pond (1891); a gubernatorial campaign leaflet for William J. Dean (undated); and a transcript of the funeral for William J. Dean (1910). The second section contains Pond Family Association materials (1930 to 1948), including photographs, newspaper clippings, reminiscences, and obituary notices. Also included are an account of Minnesota's first Indian farm colony as told to Samuel Pond by Cloud Man, a Dakota chief; and a reminiscence of the "Battle Between Chippewas and Sioux near Murphy's Landing and Ferry, on May 26, 1858," written by Elnathan Judson Pond, who was an observer. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 2: Pond Family Association, 1949-1967. | |||||||||||||
| Contains mostly historical sketches and reminiscences by younger members of the Pond family recording their parents' lives. There is material on George A. Pond, including a copy of his "Pioneer Flour Milling in Scott County," an address read at a Ramsey County Historical Society meeting on June 18, 1960. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 4: First Presbyterian Church of Shakopee, Minnesota, undated and 1855-1930. | |||||||||||||
| Materials relating to the history of the church, including photographs of Samuel Pond; a list of church members, 1855-1930; and histories of the church written by Samuel William Pond, Jr., Elnathan Judson Pond, and Dr. Fred H. Buck. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 3: With George A. and Martha C. Pond, 1918 to May 26, 1967. | |||||||||||||
| Photographs, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous material relating to Mr. and Mrs. George A. Pond and their children, and to the agricultural research work of Mr. Pond, including a bibliography of his publications. There are a few photographs and other miscellaneous items concerning Salem, New Jersey, Mrs. Pond’s childhood home. | |||||||||||||
GIDEON H. POND MATERIALS
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| P437 | 17 | Address given at Old Settlers Association picnic, Lake Harriet, Minnesota, June 25, 1873. | |||||||||||
| Papers, undated and 1863-1866. | |||||||||||||
| Sermons, undated and 1850s-1870s. 4 folders. | |||||||||||||
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| P437 | 18 | Sermons, undated and 1850s-1870s. 1 folder. | |||||||||||
| Sermons, undated and 1850s-1870s. 2 folders. Photocopies. | |||||||||||||
| Diary, 1859-1877. 2 folders. Photocopy. | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous papers, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Includes multi-page List of books. | |||||||||||||
| Gideon Pond letters, 1847-1860. | |||||||||||||
| Written mainly to his sister Rebecca and his daughter Ruth. | |||||||||||||
| Ruth Pond Goodrich letters, 1846-1858, 1866-1874, 1901. | |||||||||||||
| Written mainly, but not exclusively, to her aunt and uncle, Rebecca and Hermon Hine, in Litchfield County, Connecticut. Includes letters by Gideon to his sister Rebecca and daughter Ruth. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| P437 | 19 | Trip log book (1853), undated. Photocopy. | |||||||||||
| Annotated transcript of log book and diary, 2009. | |||||||||||||
| COPYRIGHT RESERVED. | |||||||||||||
| Correspondence and miscellaneous papers. 26 items in 1 folder: | |||||||||||||
| File includes transcripts of documents, unless otherwise noted. | |||||||||||||
| Outline of letters sent by Pond Brothers to Pittsburgh, undated. | |||||||||||||
| There is no transcript for this item. | |||||||||||||
| Certificate of licensure by Dakota Presbytery signed by S. R. Riggs, May 12, 1847. | |||||||||||||
| Letter to F. Steele, January 4, 1850. | |||||||||||||
| Letter to F. Steele, January 22, 1850. | |||||||||||||
| Letter to F. Steele, March 4, 1850. | |||||||||||||
| Letter to F. Steele, July 25, 1850. | |||||||||||||
| Letter to Gov. Alexander Ramsey, September 25, 1850. | |||||||||||||
| Letter from Martin McLeod, September 30, 1850. | |||||||||||||
| Letter to Mr. Provran (?) and Quinn, February 22, 1851. | |||||||||||||
| Letter from Tho. S. Williamson, December 13, 1858. | |||||||||||||
| Letter to Mr. Kendall, June 7, 1862. | |||||||||||||
| Letter from G.H. Haven, September 6, 1875. | |||||||||||||
| Letter from G.H. Haven, September 22, 1875. | |||||||||||||
| Letter from W.B.C. Chambers, June 20, 1877. | |||||||||||||
| There is no transcript for this item. | |||||||||||||
| Letter (partial) and list of Oak Grove Church members, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous writings. 6 items in 1 folder: | |||||||||||||
| File includes transcripts of each document. | |||||||||||||
| Account of Joseph Renville, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Private statement on Rev. Frederick Stanley, undated. | |||||||||||||
| The Road, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Recollections of the road from Fort Snelling to Shakopee. | |||||||||||||
OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS' PAPERS/NEXT GENERATION
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| P437 | 19 | Hermon Hine Pond: Annotated transcript of diaries (1871-1904, 1922-1933) undated. 3 folders. | |||||||||||
| COPYRIGHT RESERVED. | |||||||||||||
| Hermon Hine Pond was a son of Gideon Hollister Pond. | |||||||||||||
| [0.10 cubic feet empty, legal sized] | |||||||||||||
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| P437 | 21 | Miscellaneous family correspondence, 1866-1897. | |||||||||||
| Rebecca Pond Hine correspondence, 1854-1885. | |||||||||||||
| Rebecca "Reby" Pond Hine (1800-1887) was a sister of Gideon H. and Samuel Pond. | |||||||||||||
| Rebecca wrote from Washington, Connecticut, to her nieces living in Bloomington, Minnesota. Typical subject matter includes news of births, deaths, illnesses, and marriages among their circle of family and friends. | |||||||||||||
| Eliza(beth?) "Lizzie" Jane Pond correspondence, 1869-1872. | |||||||||||||
| Elizabeth "Lizzie" Jane Pond (1847-1888) was a daughter of Gideon H. Pond. | |||||||||||||
| George H. Pond correspondence, 1863-1866. | |||||||||||||
| George H. Pond (1843-1866) was a son of Gideon H. Pond. George would die of cholera several months after his last letter in 1866 while attending college in Ohio. | |||||||||||||
| Letters written to sister and brother-in-law, Ruth Hine and Allen Goodrich, by George while attending college in Marietta, Ohio. Topics include the Civil War and his father's missionary work. | |||||||||||||
| Ruth Hine Pond Goodrich: | |||||||||||||
| Ruth Hine Pond Goodrich (1838-1905) was a daughter of Gideon H. Pond. | |||||||||||||
| Incoming correspondence, 1855-1882. | |||||||||||||
| Mainly letters from family members. | |||||||||||||
| Outgoing correspondence, 1883-1894. | |||||||||||||
| Mainly letters sent by Ruth from Minneapolis to her daughter, Sarah Lydia Goodrich Dow (1859-1943) living in Spokane, Washington. | |||||||||||||
| Poetry book, undated, circa 1850s. | |||||||||||||
| Includes Ruth's poems as well as transcribed poems by other authors, mainly family. | |||||||||||||
| Leander Dow correspondence; Doris Dow correspondence, 1894-1912. | |||||||||||||
| Leander Allen (1886-1973) and Doris Stella Dow (1889-1966) were the children of Sarah Lydia Goodrich and John K. Dow (1862-1961) and the grandchildren of Ruth Hine Pond Goodrich. | |||||||||||||
| Emma W. Ellison correspondence, 1880-1883. | |||||||||||||
| Emma W. Ellison (1861-1943) was a daughter of William W. and Sarah Rebecca Pond Ellison and the granddaughter of Gideon H. Pond. | |||||||||||||
| Edna Ruth (Ruth Edna?) Pond Ellison Heistermann Snodgrass: | |||||||||||||
| Edna Ruth (sometimes referred to as Ruth Edna) Pond Ellison Heistermann Snodgrass (1880-1959) was a daughter of William W. and Sarah Rebecca Pond Ellison and the granddaughter of Gideon H. Pond. | |||||||||||||
| Outgoing correspondence, 1904-1914. | |||||||||||||
| Mainly letters Edna sent to her first husband, John H. Heistermann (1878-1958). Includes a letter written in German by John's father. | |||||||||||||
| Incoming correspondence, 1904-1914, 1935-1948. 2 folders. | |||||||||||||
| Early letters are mainly from her fiancé (later husband), John Heistermann. Later letters date from her second marriage to Vernon L. Snodgrass (1902-1978). | |||||||||||||
| Story of Sarah Poage Pond, 1930. | |||||||||||||
| Sarah Poage Pond (1805-1853) was the first wife of Gideon Hollister Pond and was Edna's grandmother. | |||||||||||||
| Typescript biography of Sarah (Poage) Pond and family . | |||||||||||||
CLOSED ORIGINALS
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| P437 | 20 | Volumes 6-7: Narrative of Samuel W. Pond, 1881. 2 volumes. | |||||||||||
| Access Restricted. Volumes are closed to general use for preservation purposes. Researchers are directed to use the microfilmed copy (M21). | |||||||||||||
| Folder | |||||||||||||
| Reserve 151 | 1 | Diary, 1859-1877. 1 volume. | |||||||||||
| Access restricted. | |||||||||||||
| Includes miscellaneous accounts (1859-1876) at end of volume. | |||||||||||||
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| Reserve 151 | 2 | Trip log book, 1853. 1 volume. | |||||||||||
| Access restricted. | |||||||||||||
| Includes mileage and financial data for Gideon's trip from St. Paul to Cincinnati, Ohio, and return (September-October 1853); includes brief financial entries for 1849 and 1850. | |||||||||||||
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Agriculture -- Minnesota.
- Cemeteries -- Connecticut -- Washington (Town)
- Children -- Diaries.
- Dakota Indians -- Cultural assimilation.
- Dakota Indians -- Missions.
- Dakota Indians -- Social life and customs.
- Dakota Indians -- Wars -- Minnesota.
- Dakota language -- Dictionaries -- English.
- Dakota language -- Grammar -- 1800-1869.
- English language -- Dictionaries -- Dakota.
- Flour mills -- Minnesota -- Scott County.
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Minnesota.
- Hebrew language -- Dictionaries -- Dakota.
- Indians of North America.
- Missions -- Minnesota.
- Ojibwa Indians -- Wars -- Minnesota.
- Presbyterian Church -- Minnesota.
- Real property -- Minnesota.
- Temperance -- United States -- Societies, etc.
- Persons:
- Boutwell, William Thurston, 1803-1890, author.
- Buck, F. H. (Frederick H.), author.
- Dean, Rebecca Cordelia, 1844-1912, author.
- Dean, William J., 1843-1910, author.
- Dentan, Francois Samuel, author.
- Frazier, Jack, author.
- Frazier, Joseph, author.
- Gavin, Daniel, 1805- , author.
- Goodrich, Allen L., author.
- Hollister, Preston, author.
- Huggins, Alexander G., 1802-1866, author.
- Pettijohn, Jonas, 1813-1896.
- Pond, Anna Davis, author.
- Pond, Elnathan J., 1847-1943, author.
- Pond, George A. (George Augustus), 1889- author.
- Pond, George H., 1843-1866, author.
- Pond, Gideon H. (Gideon Hollister), 1810-1878, author.
- Pond, Gideon Hollister, 1858-1933, author.
- Pond, Hine (Hermon Hine), 1855-1933, author.
- Pond, Jennette Clarissa, 1842-1867, author.
- Pond, Martha Crow, 1893-1987, author.
- Pond, Peter, 1740-1807.
- Pond, Rebecca Maybelle, 1891-1986, author.
- Pond, Samuel W. (Samuel William), 1808-1891. author.
- Pond, Samuel William, 1850-1916, author.
- Pounds family.
- Riggs, Stephen Return, 1812-1883, author.
- Stevens, Jedediah Dwight, 1798-1876?, author.
- Williamson, Thomas S. (Thomas Smith), 1800-1879, author.
- Organizations:
- American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Lac qui Parle Mission (Minn.)
- American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, author.
- Bloomington Temperance Society (Bloomington, Minn.).
- First Presbyterian Church (Minneapolis, Minn.)
- First Presbyterian Church (Shakopee, Minn.)
- Lake Harriet Mission (Minn.).
- Oak Grove Presbyterian Church (Bloomington, Minn.)
- Pond Family Association of Minnesota, author.
- United States. Army. Minnesota Infantry Regiment, 6th (1862-1865).
- Places:
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Document Types:
- Autograph albums.
- Cadastral maps.
- Deeds.
- Diaries.
- Microforms.
- Poetry.
- Reminiscences.
- Scrapbooks.
- Sermons.
- Occupations:
- Missionaries -- Minnesota.
- Titles:
- Bible. Dakota
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