- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- Extracts from a letter, 1817 Mar. 2, Washington City to John C. Calhoun, Sec[retar]y of War / Rev[erend] Samuel Worcester
- Creator:
- Worcester, Samuel, 1770-1821
- Date of Original:
- 1817-03-02
- Subject:
- Missions
Creek Indians
Chickasaw Indians
Choctaw Indians
Cherokee Indians--Social conditions - Location:
- United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- Copied extract of a letter wherein Reverend Samuel Worcester, Corresponding Secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and missionary to the Cherokees, writes to John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, to inform him, with regard to Indian civilization and culture, that views and dispositions of the President are in full accordance with those of the Board. The Board in which Samuel Worcester is associated deals mainly with Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, and Creeks, March 2, 1817.
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:
- ch040
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_ch040
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_ch040#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_ch040/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Tennessee State Library, State Library Cherokee Collection, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 page/leaf
- Original Collection:
- Manuscript held by the Tennessee State Library, State Library Cherokee Collection, box 1, folder 29, document ch040.
- Holding Institution:
- Tennessee State Library and Archives
- Rights:
-
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Extracts from a letter of Rev. Samuel Worcester D.D. Cor. Sec. [Corresponding Secretary] to Hon. [Honorable] John C. Calhoun Secy. [Secretary] of War, dated, Washington City
Mar. 2 1817
I [deleted text: and ] have no doubt, that, in regard to the general object of Indian civilization & culture, the views & dispositions of the Executive are in full accordance with those of the Board. It has been with the Board from the first a matter of earnest desire & care to deserve & to obtain the countenance & aid of the government; & it is a particular felicity to feel the confidence, that in this it have not failed; and that so long as it shall continue to be duly entitled to this high patronage, it will have no occasion to use solicitation, but only in a fair manner to present its objects & its exigencies, in order to secure the help which shall be in the power of the Executive to afford.
The attention of [added text: the ] Board in whose behalf I have the honor to act is Especially directed, as you have been apprised, to the four nations of the South West, the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, and Creeks. Its first establishment was commenced in the Cherokee nation just about two years ago, & has prospered beyond the most sanguine Expectations. It comprises at present four missionaries & teachers with their families, besides a farmer & other laborers.