- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter] 1797 Mar. 17, Knoxville, [Tennessee to] Governor [James] Garrard of Kentucky / [John Sevier] of an image
- Creator:
- Tennessee. Governor (1796-1801 : Sevier)
- Publisher:
- Manuscript held by the Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, Governor Sevier, box 1, folder 3, document tl037.
- Date of Original:
- 1797-03-17
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Government relations
Cherokee Indians--Violence against - Location:
- United States, Kentucky, 38.20042, -84.87762
United States, Tennessee, 35.75035, -86.25027 - Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This is a letter, dated March 17, 1797, written by Tennessee Governor John Sevier (1796-1801, 1803-1809) to Governor Garrard of Kentucky. Sevier discusses the murders of Red Bird and another Cherokee Indian by Mitchell and Levinstone. He calls the murders "wanton and unprovoked" and states that he wishes to have the perpetrators apprehended, although it may be difficult, and taken to Kentucky to be punished.
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:
- gs037
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_gs037
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_gs037#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_gs037/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Governor Sevier, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 2 pages/leaves
- Holding Institution:
- Tennessee State Library and Archives
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
Knoxville
17 March 1797
Sir
Yours of the [deleted text: 8th instant ]
10th Instant I am duly honored With. and shall observe the contents,
The wanton and unprovoked murder Committed on the red Bird and [added text: another ] [deleted text: others ] Indian of the Cherokee tribe, is a crime so Atrocious and Agrevating [Aggravating] in its nature, that [deleted text: I am determined ] [added text: it is my Sincere wish & desire ] to have the perpetrators apprehended, in order they may Suffer agreably [agreeably] to the demerit of their Crimes. The taking of them will be Attended with Some difficulty. Levinstone, I have been informed left this state in A few days after it was known he had been guilty of the murder, and [deleted text: the other ] [added text: Mitchell ] is constantly on his Gaurd [Guard] in Such a manner, that [deleted text: it ] will render it difficult to have him apprehended -- you may
Page: [2]
rest assured that nothing shall or will be lacking in the executive, to have them taken and safely conducted into [deleted text: your ] the State of Kentucky, if by any means the same can be accomplished
I have the honor to be very respectfully Your Excellencys Mo. ob. Hbe, Sert. [Most obedient Humble, Servant]
[added text: By the governor ]
His Excellency Governor Garrard
Governor of Kentucky
17 March 1797
No [Number] 9
Recorded