United States, Tennessee, Anderson County, 36.11844, -84.19846Roane, Archibald, 1760-18191803-04-13This 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.text/htmlimage/jpeggrp004engManuscript held by the Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, Governor Roane Papers , box 1, folder 3, document tl004.Mode 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/Indians of North America--Government relationsIndians of North America--Land tenureTrespass[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 imageText