- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter] 1819 Apr. 16, Milledgeville, [Georgia to] Maj[o]r W[illia]m S. Mitchell / W[illia]m Rabun, [Governor of Georgia]
- Creator:
- Georgia. Governor (1817-1819 : Rabun)
- Date of Original:
- 1819-04-16
- Subject:
- Creek Indians--Treaties
Creek Indians--Government relations
Surveying - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This is a letter dated April 16, 1819 from William Rabun (Governor of Georgia, 1817-1819) to Assistant Agent to the Creeks, Major William S. Mitchell. Rabun asks Mitchell to assemble fifty Indians to serve as guards for surveyors who will be laying out counties and districts in the territory recently acquired through a treaty with the Indians (probably the Treaty of the Creek Agency on the Flint River, 1818). Rabun indicates that the guards will be paid according to rank but must supply their own provisions, ammunition and other equipment. The surveyors mentioned are Doctor Green, Benjamin H. Sturges, Colonel Jackson, and J. C. Watson.
Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2001, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. - Local Identifier:
- krc141
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_krc141
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_krc141#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_krc141/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Keith Read, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 3 pages/leaves
- Original Collection:
- Manuscript held by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, Keith Read, box 20, folder 51, document 03.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
-
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Executive Department Georgia Milledgeville
16th. April 1819 --
Sir,
I beg leave to propose through you to the Chiefs and warriors of the Creek Indians to employ fifty men to guard the Surveyors employed to lay out the late acquired Territory into Counties and Districts -- viz, Twenty to meet Doct. [Doctor] Green at Fort Scott, Twenty to meet Colo. [Colonel] Jackson and B. [Benjamin] H. Sturges Esquire at Fort Gaines, and Ten to meet Colo. [Colonel] J. C. Watson at Hartford -- Each detachment to be commanded by a confidential Indian to rank as Lieutenant, and be subject to the Command of the Surveyors, for whose services I will allow each officer, Seventy five cents and to each private fifty cents per day while in service (they furnishing their own provisions, arms, ammunition, &c. [et cetera] ) and make prompt payment, as soon as the Service shall have been performed and duly certified by the Surveyor under whom they may have Served.
Should the Indians accede to this proposition, please have them detached with as little delay as possible and apprise me of the precise time
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when they will assemble at each of the places before mentioned -- The term of Service to be two months or longer if necessary --
Verry [Very] Respectfully
[Signed] Wm [William] Rabun
Majr. Wm [Major William] S. Mitchell Asst. Agt. [Assistant Agent] Indian Affairs
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Gov. [Governor] Rabun
16 April 1819