- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter] 1818 Sept. 23, Cherokee Agency [to] Daniel Graham, Secretary of State, Murfreesboro, T[ennessee / Joseph M[c]Minn of an image
- Creator:
- McMinn, Joseph, 1758-1824
- Publisher:
- Manuscript held by the Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, Governor McMinn Letters , box 10, folder 52, document tl009.
- Date of Original:
- 1818-09-23
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Government relations
Indian land transfers - Location:
- United States, Tennessee, 35.75035, -86.25027
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This letter, dated September 23, 1818, is from Tennessee Governor Joseph McMinn (1815-1821) to Daniel Graham, Secretary of State. McMinn writes of his displeasure in being at the Cherokee Agency. He tells Graham that he abhors the hatred, jealously and partisanship demonstrated by those he has encountered, and he is looking forward to going to Knoxville.
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:
- gml009
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_gml009
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_gml009#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_gml009/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Governor McMinn Letters , Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 2 pages/leaves
- Holding Institution:
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
Cherokee Agency
23 Sept [September] 1818
Dear Secy [Secretary]
I have not had the Pleasure of receiving any thing [anything] from you Since, that the receipt of which I have already acknowledged -- Tho hope I may on sending to the P. [Post] office, which I shall do early on tomorrow morning --
I am kept very closely confined at this place and Scarcely know how to leave here to attend to my business at Knoxville -- you cannot conceive of a more [unclear text: disordered ] society than at this place, every [unclear text: action ] & [unclear text: expresion [expression] ] has to undergo the ordeal -- their Hatred and their Jealously has formed them the most compleat [complete] subject of Partizanship [Partisanship] that my eyes ever beheld --
as I do not expect that [unclear text: Capt. ] Childress has returned I will forbear writing to him until next mail -- and in the mean time [meantime] beg you to repeat what I asked you as afore in my last in relation to the family, and for yourself accept the Sincere esteem of your Friend
[Signed] Joseph M. Minn
Page: [2]
Washington T [Tennessee]
23 Sept [September] 1818
Honorable Daniel Graham Secretary of State Murfreesboro