United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.500181821-09-06This document consists of two legal depositions, both dated September 6, 1821, from the son and widow of Nathaniel Howell in which they describe the alleged theft of two slaves, named Ned and Sam, and a shot gun in the year 1784. It is alleged that the Creek Indians stole the two slaves and the gun from Wilkes County (Georgia) and took them into the Creek Nation. The younger Howell states that his father demanded the return of the property at the Treaty of Coleraine, between the Creeks and the U.S. (1796). Ann Howell adds that an Indian trader, referred to as Tim Barnett (Timothy Barnard?), informed them that he had seen the two slaves in the Creek Nation and would return one of them to Howell in return for permission to keep the other.Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2001, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.text/htmlimage/jpegcmt015engMode 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/Manuscript held by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, C. Mildred Thompson, box 01, folder 15, document 01.Creek Indians--Claims againstCreek Indians--TreatiesEnslaved persons[Deposition of] Nathaniel Howell, 1821 Sept. 6, Greene County, Georgia. [Deposition of] Ann Howell, 1821 Sept. 6, Greene County, GeorgiaText