- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- Obligation in the sum of two thousand dollars to be paid to the President of the United States, 1806
- Publisher:
- Manuscript held by the Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, MS2033 Penelope Johnson Allen, box 1, folder 129, document 0242.
- Date of Original:
- 1806
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Government relations
Roads--Maintenance and repair - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Tennessee, 35.75035, -86.25027 - Medium:
- contracts
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This is an unsigned contract between the Cherokee Nation and President of the United States in which the Cherokee Nation promises to pay two thousand dollars to the United States relative to maintenance of roads between Tennessee and Georgia.
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:
- pa0242
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_pa0242
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_pa0242#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_pa0242/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:
- 1 page/leaf
- Holding Institution:
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
Know all men that we the underwritten [added text: all of the Cherokee nation ] [deleted text: [illegible text] ] are hereby [unclear text: held ] firmly bound [deleted text: unto ] the President of the United States in the sum of two thousand dollars to be paid to the said President of the United States, to which payment well & truly to be made. we bind ourselves & each of us. our heirs exers. Admrs. [executors Administrators] & every of them jointly & severally [added text: firmly ] by these presents -- sealed with our seals the [omitted word] Day of [omitted word] in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and six & of the Independence of the United States of Ame [added text: ] the thirtieth. --
The condition of the above oblgation [obligation] is such that if the above bounden shall well & truly [deleted text: [illegible text] ] keep the roads between the States of Georgia and Tennessee [added text: constantly ] in good repair [added text: for the course of ten years ] for Horses & carriages to travel & pass the same then this obligation shall be void. Other wise, shall be & remain in full force & virtue.
Signed, Sealed & delivered in presence of. --