- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter] 1818 Apr. 22, Cherokee Agency [to] John C. Calhoun / Return J. Meigs
- Creator:
- Meigs, Return Jonathan, 1740-1823
- Publisher:
- Manuscript held by the Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, MS2033 Penelope Johnson Allen, box 1, folder 94, document pa0222.
- Date of Original:
- 1818-04-22
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Government relations
United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Cherokee Indian Agency - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This is a copy of a letter dated April 22, 1818 from Return J. Meigs, U.S. Agent to the Cherokees, to Secretary of War John C. Calhoun, requesting the sum of 3472.00 for payment to John and Lewis Ross for expenditures in the Cherokee Agency.
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:
- pa0222
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_pa0222
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_pa0222#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_pa0222/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:
- 3 pages/leaves
- Holding Institution:
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
Cherokee Agency
22nd. April 1818
Sir
I have this day drawn on you for the sum of Three Thousand four hundred & seventy two dollars in favor of John & Lewis Ross & Co. [Company] having received that sum of them to pay the expenditures in the Cherokee Agency for the first quarter of the current year. One thousand eight hundred & eighteen, an estimate of these expences [expenses] will accompany my drafts.
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I have the honor to be your Obt Servt. [Obedient Servant]
[Signed] Return J. Meigs
Honorable Jno. [John] C. Calhoun Secretary of War.
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Ten days after sight of this my second Bill of Exchange first of this tenor and date not paid. Please to pay John & Lewis Ross & Co. [Company] or order. Three Thousand four hundred & seventy two dollars for that sum received of them appropriated to the payment of Expences [Expenses] in the Cherokee Agency in the first Quarter of the current year
1818. See my letter of advice of this date.
Cherokee Agency
22cd Apl. 1818.
Honble [Honorable] Jno. [John] C. Calhoun. Secretary of War.
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Copies of a letter of advice & Bills of Exchange in favor of Jno. [John] & Lewis Ross Co.
$3472.00
22nd. April 1818 1st qr. [first quarter]
1818