- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- Notice, 1838 Jan. 20, [to] the Cherokees / Nat[haniel] Smith
- Creator:
- Smith, Nathaniel, d. 1843
- Publisher:
- Manuscript held by the The Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, State Library Cherokee Collection, box 3, folder 9, document ch082.
- Date of Original:
- 1838-01-20
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Relocation
Trail of Tears, 1838 - Location:
- United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434
- Medium:
- manuscripts (documents)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This is a notice from General Nathaniel Smith, Superintendent of Cherokee emigration, to the Cherokee people, dated January 20, 1838. Smith informs the Cherokees that steam boats will be available for their transportation to a territory west of the Mississippi River, but emigrants may choose the overland route as well. He reminds the Cherokees of the sentiments of the President on the removal issue and warns them to remove early or face military force.
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:
- ch082
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_ch082
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_ch082#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_ch082/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:
- 1 page/leaf
- Holding Institution:
- Tennessee State Library and Archives
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
Notice
The Cherokees are informed that the Superintendent of their removal West, will have Suitable Steam Boats ready for their transportation at the Agency on the
5th day of Feby [February], capable of taking One Thousand persons at a time, with comfort and Safety to their new homes, in fifteen days. The removal by land with unavoidable exposure and fatigue will require at least Seventy days; the choice of way is, however, given to the emigrant. The places of Rendezvous will be [deleted text: [illegible text] ] the Agency, Ross' Landing and a point opposite Bellefonte, at each of which places the Boats will stop to take in Emigrants.
The Superintendent takes this occasion to repeat that he has been instructed by their great Father the President to treat the Cherokees with kindness and friendship, and to assure them that to linger in the midst of a white population, suffering oppression and encroachment, ruin and extermination must inevitably fall on them. In tenderness then to their persons and interests, he would urge them in the most friendly manner, assuring them at the same time that the Treaty will not be altered, to make speedy preparation, settle their business with the Commissioners, and remove before the
23rd. of May, when the time arrives for the application of Military Force.
Cherokee Agency East
January 20, 1838
[Signed] Nat [Nathaniel] Smith Supt. Ch. [Superintendent Cherokee] Removal