- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- Certificate [of] W[illia]m Childers, 1836 Sept. 20, Floyd County, Georgia / W[illia]m Childers
- Creator:
- Childers, William
- Publisher:
- Manuscript held by the Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, MS2033 Penelope Johnson Allen, box 1, folder 146, document 0258.
- Date of Original:
- 1836-09-20
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians
Income
Ferries - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Floyd County, 34.26316, -85.21428
- Medium:
- legal documents
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This is a certified statement made by William Childers, dated September 20, 1836, concerning the average daily income of a ferry, owned by Cherokee leader Major Ridge, of which Childers occasionally had charge.
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:
- pa0258
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_pa0258
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_pa0258#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_pa0258/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]
Georgia Floyd County
I do hereby certify some seven years ago I resided at Major Ridges ferry and occasionally had charge of said ferry and from my knowledge of its income at that time I am of opinion that it would average four dollars per day
Given under my hand this
20th Sept 1836
[Signed] Wm [William] Childers
Page: [2]
Childers
certificate