United States, Tennessee, 35.75035, -86.25027Tennessee. Governor (1803-1809 : Sevier)1804-04-04This 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.text/htmlimage/jpeggs057engManuscript held by the The Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, Governor Sevier, box 1, folder 1, document tl057.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--Land tenureTrespassIndians of North America--Government relations[Letter] 1804 Apr. 4, Knoxville, [Tennessee to] Colo[nel] Hugh Montgomery / J[ohn] Sevier of an imageText