- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Fragment of a letter, 1835-1860?] / [William H. Thomas ?]
- Creator:
- Thomas, William Holland, 1805-1893
- Contributor to Resource:
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Libraries
- Publisher:
- Manuscript held by the Cherokee Museum, Cherokee, NC, William Holland Thomas, box 1.
- Date of Original:
- 1835/1860
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Government relations
Cherokee Indians--Claims
Embezzlement - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, 35.50069, -80.00032
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This is a fragment of a letter whose author and recipient are both unknown. The author (believed to be William Holland Thomas) responds to a complaint made against him, regarding the misuse of Cherokee funds. The author explains that there were several Cherokee witnesses who would attest to the fact that proper payments have been received by them, and he specifically mentions that Jim Woodpecker and Dickageeskih, chiefs of Sand Town and Buffalo Town, respectively, would testify in his defense if called upon.
Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries in 2001, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. - Local Identifier:
- cm148
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_cm148
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_cm148#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_cm148/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], William Holland Thomas, Cherokee Museum, Cherokee, NC, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 page/leaf
- Holding Institution:
- Museum of the Cherokee Indian
- Rights:
-
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it thinking it was something else or else not knowing what it was.
Not to mention others the two chiefs whose names appear to this complaint to wit Jim Woodpecker chief of Sand Town and Dickageeskih chief of Buffalo Town know the charges to be false and will so testify whenever called upon in a language which they understand. They know that they have both received the money due them and they have seen the most of their people receive theirs. They know that I have through them notified their respective towns when money came to my hands for them.
Furthur [Further] than that the subscribing witnesses are all reliable men [deleted text: They all ] [added text: each one of them ] saw the payments made in efery [every] instance [added text: where his name appears as witness ] and are all of them in this country and ready to testify to the truth of the payments in every case and that to the Indians satisfaction.
From these considerations and from intimations in the complaint itself, wonderful for its elegancy of style and grammatical