United States, Tennessee, 35.75035, -86.25027Tennessee. Governor (1796-1801 : Sevier)1798-07-04This is a letter from Tennessee Governor John Sevier (1796-1801, 1803-1809), dated July 4, 1798, to Alfred Moore, George Walton and John Steele, United States commissioners responsible for negotiating a treaty with the Cherokee Indians. Sevier informs the men that James Robertson, James Stuart and Lachlan McIntosh have been appointed agents to represent the interests of the State of Tennessee in the ensuing treaty and says that the state commissioners will do all that is in their power to aid the U.S. agents in extinguishing the Cherokee title.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/jpeggs047engManuscript held by the The Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, Governor Sevier, box 1, folder 6, document tl047.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/Cherokee Indians--TreatiesCherokee Indians--Government relationsCherokee Indians--Land tenureBoundariesIndian agents[Letter] 1798 July 4, Knoxville, [Tennessee to] Alfred Moore, George Walton and John Steele / John Sevier of an imageText