United States, Tennessee, 35.75035, -86.25027Tennessee. Governor (1803-1809 : Sevier)1807-08-02This 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.text/htmlimage/jpeggs060engManuscript held by the The Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, Governor Sevier, box 1, folder 4, document tl060.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--Claims againstCherokee Indians--Government relationsLetter, 1807 Aug. 2, Knoxville, [Tennessee to] Col[onel Return J.] Meigs / John Sevier of an imageText