United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.500181831-06-23Extract from a letter dated June 23, 1831 from Miss Fuller, a teacher at the Hightower Mission in the Cherokee Nation, to Samuel Worcester, a Christian missionary living in the Nation. Fuller describes how the Georgia guard led by Colonel Charles H. Nelson came to occupy the mission house and arrest John Thompson, another missionary, for the second time. The copy of a letter from Thompson to Nelson concerning the guards' occupancy of the mission house is included in Fuller's correspondence.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/jpegch047engManuscript held by the The Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, State Library Cherokee Collection, box 1, folder 29, document ch047.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/MissionsGeorgia--Politics and government--1775-1865[Extract from a] letter, 1831 June 23, Hightower Mission, [Cherokee Nation] to Mr. [Samuel] WorcesterText