- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter] 1804 Oct. 6, Creek Agency [to] Colo[nel Return J.] Meigs, Southwest Point, [Tennessee] / Benjamin Hawkins
- Creator:
- Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816
- Publisher:
- Manuscript held by the The Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, State Library Cherokee Collection, box 1, folder 8, document ch002.
- Date of Original:
- 1804-10-06
- Subject:
- Indian agents
Creek Indians
Cherokee Indians
Indians, Treatment of - Location:
- United States, Tennessee, 35.75035, -86.25027
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This is a letter from Benjamin Hawkins, U.S. agent to the Creek Indians, to Colonel Return J. Meigs, U.S. agent to the Cherokee Indians, dated October 6, 1804. Hawkins reports to Meigs that he has found several horses belonging to Abraham Bird. In addition, he commends Meigs on his plans to remove Wafford and his party, who have caused great distress to the Indians and inhibited further transactions. The letter is written from the Creek Agency and directed to Meigs at Southwest Point.
Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries in 2000, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. - Local Identifier:
- ch002
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_ch002
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_ch002#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_ch002/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], State Library Cherokee Collection, The Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 2 pages/leaves
- Holding Institution:
- Tennessee State Library and Archives
- Rights:
-
