- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter] 1804 Apr. 4, Knoxville, [Tennessee to] Colo[nel] Hugh Montgomery / J[ohn] Sevier of an image
- Creator:
- Tennessee. Governor (1803-1809 : Sevier)
- Publisher:
- Manuscript held by the The Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, Governor Sevier, box 1, folder 1, document tl057.
- Date of Original:
- 1804-04-04
- Subject:
- Indians of North America--Land tenure
Trespass
Indians of North America--Government relations - Location:
- United States, Tennessee, 35.75035, -86.25027
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
military records - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This is a letter written by Tennessee Governor John Sevier (1796-1801, 1803-1809) to Colonel Hugh Montgomery on April 4, 1804. Sevier states that people have illegally settled on Indian lands and that troops are going to be employed to remove them. Sevier instructs Montgomery to warn these settlers of the dangers to which they will be exposed if they trespass on Indian lands.
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:
- gs057
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_gs057
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_gs057#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_gs057/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Governor Sevier, The 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
4 April 1804
Sir
Permit me to trouble you with An address [added text: which ] I beg you to forward [added text: directed ] to the [deleted text: inhabit ] people said to be [added text: settled and ] intruding upon the Indian lands. I am officially informed by the Agent of the War department that there is a considerable number of [deleted text: those ] persons settled on those lands, and I also understand that the regular troops [added text: are shortly ] [deleted text: is about ] to be employed for their removal I [added text: therefore ] deem it expedient to [deleted text: fore warn [forewarn] them ] give them information of the dangers they may [deleted text: be ] expose [deleted text: d ] themselves to, should they be found trespassing as has been to me represented
I have the honor & C [et cetera]
[Signed] J. [John] Sevier
Colo. [Colonel] Hugh Montgomery Anderson County --
Page: [2]
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Colo. [Colonel] H. [Hugh] Montgomery
4 April 1804