- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- Certificate [of] Geo[rge] M. Lavender, 1836 Sept. 21, Head of Coosa, Floyd County, Georgia / Geo[rge] M. Lavender
- Creator:
- Lavender, George M.
- Publisher:
- Manuscript held by the Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, MS2033 Penelope Johnson Allen, box 1, folder 147, document pa0259.
- Date of Original:
- 1836-09-21
- Subject:
- Ferries
Income
Cherokee Indians - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Floyd County, 34.26316, -85.21428
- Medium:
- legal documents
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This document, dated September 21, 1836, is a certified statement given by George M. Lavender concerning the value of Cherokee leader Major Ridge's ferry.
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:
- pa0259
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_pa0259
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_pa0259#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_pa0259/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]
Head of Coosa Floyd County Georgia
September 21st 1836
This is to certify that I have resided a number of years, at Major Ridges ferry on the Eastanalle River, and Some six or seven years ago -- the Ferry was very valuable, and considered to be a ferry as valuable as any within the Cherokee Nation -- and also the ferry owned by Mr. John Ross -- bought of the Widow Foal at the Junction of Hightower and Eastanallee was also considered as equally valuable as Maj [Major] Ridges ferry,
given under my hand
[Signed] Geo [George] M Lavender
I think that each of the above Ferries five or six years since made from three to four dollars pr. [per] day
[Signed] G.M. Lavender
Page: [2]
G.M. Lavender certificate in relation to the value of Major Ridges Ferry
Certificates relative to Ridge's Ferry
Jan. 23 1837