- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter] 1803 Apr. 13, Knoxville, [Tennessee to] the citizens of Anderson County settled on lands reserved to the Indians / Archibald Roane, Governor of Tennessee of an image
- Creator:
- Roane, Archibald, 1760-1819
- Publisher:
- Manuscript held by the Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, Governor Roane Papers , box 1, folder 3, document tl004.
- Date of Original:
- 1803-04-13
- Subject:
- Indians of North America--Government relations
Indians of North America--Land tenure
Trespass - Location:
- United States, Tennessee, Anderson County, 36.11844, -84.19846
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This letter, dated April 13, 1803, is from Archibald Roane, Governor of Tennessee, to citizens of Anderson County who are illegally settled on Cherokee lands. Roane warns the citizens that Return J. Meigs, U.S. Agent to the Cherokees, has received orders from the President to secure the land for the Cherokees, and he urges them to remove from the land voluntarily in order to spare themselves from impending legal prosecution, forced removal or both.
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:
- grp004
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_grp004
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_grp004#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_grp004/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:
- 2 pages/leaves
- Holding Institution:
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
Knoxville
13th april 1803
Gentlemen
About the Beginning of last month I addressed a Letter to Capt. [Captain] Arbuckle to be communicated to you at that time my information [added text: was not official ] on the subject of the Prosecutions intended to be brought against you at the next federal Court [deleted text: was since that time ] [added text: since the date of that Letter ] Colo. [Colonel] Meigs the Agent has [deleted text: officially stated to me by ] [added text: sent me a ] letter in his official capacity containing a list of a number of names [deleted text: stated by him ] of persons (as he says) residing on Indian lands contrary to treaty and that the Indians demanded thier [their] removal. He says that the President is determined to prevent all such intrusions and that [added text: he ( Col [Colonel] Meigs) ] by his orders [deleted text: he ] is bound to take effectual measures to have all such settlers removed. Whether this will be done by [added text: commencing ] prosecution as law or by the federal troops or both, I have not been informed
Knowing [deleted text: this to be the case ] these facts I think it a duty I owe you as Citizens of Tennessee to communicate the information and again to repeat my former advice, [deleted text: that ] [added text: to ] you [added text: to ] remove from the lands secured to the Indians by treaty, that you may avoid the disagreeable consequences which will probably result from a contrary conduct.
In my official capacity as Governor of the state I have nothing to do in any business of this nature. [added text: [unclear text: To ] ] The federal authority [deleted text: [unclear text: above ] ] It is committed by an [deleted text: [illegible text] ] act of Congress and over that authority I have no control
Page: [2]
This Letter as well as the former, has been dictated [deleted text: [illegible text] ] by a [added text: sencere [sincere] ] wish to [deleted text: [illegible text] ] to give you such information and advice as may [added text: induce ] [deleted text: enable ] you to avoid the [deleted text: evils ] embarrassments to which you are now liable. If in the moment of calm reflection you think with me on this subject I shall be glad [deleted text: for you [illegible text] ] to hear it from yourselves. But if you should think otherwise it might perhaps be proper to [added text: decline ] [deleted text: avoid ] making any communication to me on the subject
I am Gentlemen your real friend and Hum. [Humble] Servant
[Signed] Archibald Roane
To those Citizens [added text: of Anderson County ] [deleted text: of Tenn [Tennessee] ] who are settled [added text: on ] [deleted text: within ] the lands reserved to the Indians within the limits of the State of Tennessee
Settlers on Indian Lands
13 Apl [April] 1803
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