United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434McMinn, Joseph, 1758-18241824-10-27This is a letter from Joseph McMinn, U.S. agent to the Cherokee Indians at the Cherokee Agency in Tennessee, to John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, dated October 27, 1824. McMinn reports to Calhoun on the claim of Mr. Elsworth, superintendent of the Brainerd Mission, and the Cherokee Nation that they are due funds for the construction of a building to house female students at the mission school. McMinn refers to previous correspondence between Return J. Meigs, his predecessor at the Cherokee Agency, and Calhoun on this matter.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.text/htmlimage/jpegch010engManuscript held by the The Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, State Library Cherokee Collection, box 1, folder 15, document ch010.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: AT&T DjVu browser plug-in needed to view images of documents.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/Cherokee Indians--EducationBrainerd MissionIndian agents[Letter] 1824 Oct. 27, Cherokee Agency [to] John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War / Joseph McMinn of an imageText