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John Howard Payne Letters, 1832-1852
Collection
Identifier: MC-1954-169
Scope and Contents
John Howard Payne visited the Cherokee country in the 1830's, and two of these letters are introductions to John Ross, the Cherokee Chief. There is an exchange of seven letters between them, mostly personal. Some letters and photostats concern the arrest of Ross and Payne.One letter from John Ridge offers his regrets that Payne cannot visit his house and mentions sending him various Cherokee papers. Payne was planning to write a history of the Cherokees and there is...
Dates:
1832 - 1852
John Ross Collection, 1814-1897
Collection
Identifier: MS-1954-185
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, proclamations as chief of the Cherokee Tribe, legal papers, records, accounts, list of names and rations allocated during Removal from Tennessee to Indian Territory, official and other papers of the Council (Cherokee), petitions and protests to Congress, and papers relating to the East and West Cherokee controversy and the Civil War.Includes the Muster Roll of Capt. John Benge's Detachment of Emigrating Cherokees. Another documents records the expenditures of one...
Dates:
1814 - 1897
William McIntosh Papers, 1802-1906
Collection
Identifier: MC-1964-140
Scope and Contents
Gen. William McIntosh was a Creek Indian Chief who favored the removal of the Creeks out of the state of Georgia to lands in the West. In this matter there was a strong party in opposition. On April 30, 1825, a force of these Indians burned his home, then killed him and other members of his family. General McIntosh was a cousin of Gov. George M. Troup of Georgia.The papers include a letter to Governor Troup written and signed by Gen. William McIntosh; letters and copies of...
Dates:
1802 - 1906