United States, Tennessee, McMinn County, 35.42475, -84.61747Austin, John1836-12-16This is the deposition of John Austin, sworn to before John Camp on December 16, 1836, concerning a bank note relative to a murder trial in McMinn County, Tennessee. The accused murderers, James Foreman and Anderson Springsten(?) and the victim, John Walker Jr., are Cherokee Indians. Springsten(?) and Foreman's lawyers, George W. Churchwell and Spencer Jarnigan, argued that Tennessee has no jurisdiction over Cherokee matters, and the case was sent to the United States Supreme Court.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/jpegpa0248engManuscript held by the Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, MS2033 Penelope Johnson Allen, box 1, folder 137, document 0248.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--Claims againstIndians of North America--Crimes againstDeposition of John Austin, 1836 Dec. 16, McMinn County, Tennessee / [sworn to before] John CampText