- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter] 1813 Sept. 30, Tellico Blockhouse [Tennessee to] Col. Return J. Meigs / John Lenley
- Creator:
- Lenley, John
- Publisher:
- Manuscript held by the Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, MS2033 Penelope Johnson Allen, box 1, folder 73, document pa0215.
- Date of Original:
- 1813-09-30
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Government relations
Creek Indians
Alliances - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This letter, dated September 30, 1813, is from John Lenley to U.S. Agent to the Cherokees Col. Return J. Meigs. Lenley asks Meigs to convince the Cherokees to act as a buffer against the Red Stick Creeks in the interest of protecting the white settlers living along the frontier.
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:
- pa0215
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_pa0215
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_pa0215#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_pa0215/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], MS2033 Penelope Johnson Allen, Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 2 pages/leaves
- Holding Institution:
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
Tellico Blockhouse
Sept. 30 1813
Dr Sr [Dear Sir]
it is the wish of the General run of the people here that you would use your influence with the Cherokee indians for a part of them to go against the creeks for them to be enemies so as the would be [unclear text: a barrier up ] Between the creeks and Those frontiers of the [document damage] [unclear text: Northeral ] and the creeks to commit any depredation on the frontiers the [they] will be blamed for it [they] have enemies already and its best for them to be thrue [true] to the UN States & the [they] will befriend them for the United States will certainly take the Creek Nation the can drive all the indians from here [unclear text: toward ] florida and is determind [determined] [hole in document] so all that [document damaged] some families on those frontiers is much alarmd [alarmed] about the creeks comming [coming] up through the cherokee Nation there is not much Danger if we hear of them comming [coming] or on the way there is men enough yet [unclear text: I was ] in alo [a low] state of health for Sometime past I am recovering to my perfect State again I intended to be there before this time but I could not venture to go untill [until] Id get able to ride
I have the honour [honor] to be with the higest [highest] [unclear text: esteem ] your most Sincere friend and most Obedient Servant
[Signed] John Lenley
Col [Colonel] R J Meigs
Page: [2]
John Lenleys letter
September 1813
[illegible text]
Cherokees
Creeks
Col [Colonel] RJ Meigs agent for Indian affairs Highwassee Garrison