- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- Letter, 1807 Aug. 2, Knoxville, [Tennessee to] Col[onel Return J.] Meigs / John 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 4, document tl060.
- Date of Original:
- 1807-08-02
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Claims against
Cherokee Indians--Government relations - Location:
- United States, Tennessee, 35.75035, -86.25027
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This is a letter written by Tennessee Governor John Sevier (1796-1801, 1803-1809) to Cherokee agent Return J. Meigs, dated August 2, 1807. Sevier discusses the murders of two white men, John Prigmore and Leonard Cash, assumed to have been committed by Indians. He expresses his condemnation of such acts and says that he hopes that the Cherokee Nation will investigate the crimes and apprehend the guilty party. The enclosure mentioned is no longer attached.
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:
- gs060
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_gs060
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_gs060#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_gs060/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:
- 3 pages/leaves
- Holding Institution:
- Tennessee State Library and Archives
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
Knoxville
2d. August 1807
Sir,
you will perceive by the enclosed copy of a letter, from Robert Koyl, that a certain John Prigmore, has been lately murdered, by the Indians --
A certain Leonard Cash was also murdered last Spring in the neighborhood of Flint River, and afterwards found in the Tennessee, with his body riped [ripped] open and head cut off, with other mutilations of an egregious nature -- . I have been further informed (not official) that one other person has been murdered near the Shoals, said to be done by the creeks. Such enormities are of too agravating [aggravating] a kind, and such as will not be longer suffered, to be committed on any of the citizens of Tennessee. I request you will be good enough to make diligent enquiry in order to discover the perpetrators that they may be dealt with agreeably to existing Treaties, and the laws in such cases made and provided. I am unwilling to believe that the Cherokee chiefs would countenance such outrages, but should it be discovered to be otherwise, this situation may soon become very disagreeable, unless they finally put an end to such aggressions. I shall expect that the Cherokees will make every necessary enquiry to discover
Page: [2]
the offenders, and if found among their own people, to make an immediate Surrender of the Guilty person or persons -- In so doing they will wipe away the foul stain that seems to be hanging over their nation
A copy
(Signed)
[Signed] John Sevier
Col [Colonel] Meigs --
Page: [3]
No. [Number] 1
A copy Executive letter To Col. [Colonel] Meigs --
1807
in regard to the murder of some white people by indians
Cash
Prigmore