United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434Crawford, William Harris, 1772-18341816-05-27This letter, dated May 27, 1816 was written to Col. Return J. Meigs, U.S. Agent to the Cherokees, from William H. Crawford, concerning the government's purchase of Cherokee lands for a sum of twenty thousand dollars. Compensation to be given to the Cherokees in return for the land is also outlined.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/jpegpa0219engManuscript held by the Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, MS2033 Penelope Johnson Allen, box 1, folder 84, document pa0219.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--Land tenure[Letter] 1816 May 27, Department of War, [Washington, D.C. to] Col[onel] Return J. Meigs, Cherokee Agency / William H. CrawfordText