- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter] 1802 Feb. 13 [to] Governor [Archibald] Roane of the State of Tennessee / Benjamin Hawkins of an image
- Creator:
- Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816
- Publisher:
- Manuscript held by the Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, Governor Roane Papers , box 1, folder 5, document grp002.
- Date of Original:
- 1802-02-13
- Subject:
- Indian agents
Cattle--Marking - Location:
- United States, Tennessee, 35.75035, -86.25027
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This letter, dated February 13, 1802, is from Benjamin Hawkins, U.S. Agent to the Creek Indians, to Tennessee Governor Archibald Roane (1801-1803). Hawkins recommends that all horses and cattle be branded specific to their location, and he offers guidelines for how this should be done.
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:
- grp002
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_grp002
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_grp002#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_grp002/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Governor Roane Papers , Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 3 pages/leaves
- Holding Institution:
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
Creek agency
13th of Feby [February] . 1802
I find it important to the preservation of the property of my fellow citizens bordering on the agency for Indian Affairs South of Ohio to recommend [deleted text: to recommend ] to their consideration the adoption of the following regulations All horses and cattle to have brands distinct from those of property to serve as a guide for the agents, as well as the honest dealers in horses and cattle. the brands to be Roman letters an inch and half in length to be put on the right side of the neck under the main [mane] for horses and two and a half inches in length for cattle to be put on the right side
For Tennessee horses [added text: and cattle ] belonging to people on the West side of Cumbarland mountain to be branded with the letter A and those on the East side of that mountain the letter B
For North Carolina the letter C
For South Carolina D
[document damaged] counties the letter E
From Jackson County to the forks of Ocmulgee and Oconee the letter F on the alatamaha G From alatamaha to St. Marys and down that river H
For the Mississippi territory [text omitted]
Page: [2]
The settlements on Tombigby the letter I and those bordering on the Mississippi K.
If your Excellency should concur with me in opinion I request you to publish this regulation and to recommend to my fellow citizens over whom you have the honour [honor] to preside and who may be affected by it to conform to it.
I have the honour [honor] to be very respectfully
Sir, your Excellencys most obedient [unclear text: Servt [Servant] ]
[Signed] Benjamin Hawkins
agent for Indian affairs South of Ohio
His Excellency The Governor of the State of Tennessee
Page: [3]
His Excellency the Governor of the State of Tennessee