- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter with sworn statement], 1834 Apr. 3, Aquohee Dist[rict] to the [Cherokee ?] Delegation / John Smith
- Creator:
- Smith, John
- Publisher:
- Manuscript held by the The Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, State Library Cherokee Collection), box 4, folder 7, document ch087.
- Date of Original:
- 1834-04-03
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Land tenure
- Location:
- United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434
- Medium:
- legal documents
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- Letter with sworn statement dated April 3, 1834 from John Smith in the Aquohee District to the (Cherokee ?) Delegation, concerning a property dispute. A portion of the property that Smith claims as his own was awarded to a man named Hosea Morgan, a recent emigrant to the Arkansas territory who claims to be Catawba, and Smith believes that Morgan has no right to this property since he is not a citizen of the nation nor Cherokee. He has presented his case to Major Benjamin F. Currey, but has received no satisfaction and is now petitioning the delegation.
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:
- ch087
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_ch087
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_ch087#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_ch087/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:
-
Page: [1]
Aquohee Dist [District]
Apr. 3. 1834.
To the Gentlemen of the Delegation. Gentlemen.
I take the liberty to inform you that Hosea Morgan who kept my mill has had the field and houses assessed to him as an emigrant to the Arkansas. And Major Curry Gave the good will of it to a White man named Roland Terry.
I waited on Major Curry and stated the case to him and I had many witnesses Pre [deleted text: s ] sent to prove my right to the place and that the man who had the place assessed was no Citizen of the Nation nor had any right of claim whatever to enrol as a Cherokee.
The Old man Is supposed to be a Spaniard but calls himself a Catawba Indian. His wife & children are Negroes
[Signed] John Smith his X mark
Test [Testimony]
[Signed] E Jones
We the undersigned certify that a man named Hosea Morgan Having the appearance of a Spaniard but representing himself to be a Catawba Indian having spent many years among the Spaniards and having with him a Negro family, came into this District six or seven years ago or there abouts.
On his first arrival he applied to the Council for permission to reside in the Nation as a Citizen but was refused About two years ago Mr. Smith obtained a permit for him to attend [deleted text: my ] [added text: his ] mill. But he has never made any pretentions [pretensions] to have any right or title to land or Citizenship in the Nation till he was received as an emigrant to the Arkansas.
Now we respectfully but earnestly protest against, persons having no Cherokee blood and possessing no sort of title in our country being allowed to alienate portions of the land in this way which we conceive to [word omitted: be ] utterly unlawful for our own acknowledged citizens to do.
Signed on behalf of a full meeting of the Citizens of the Dist. [District]
Test. [Testimony]
[Signed] [unclear text: Situagi ] his X mark
[Signed] Sweetwater his X mark
[Signed] Peter his X mark
Page: [2]
No. 2 & 3.
Case of Hosea Morgan