- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- Affidavi[t of] Spencer Jarnagin, 1836 Dec. 15, Cass County, Georgia / Spencer Jarnagin
- Creator:
- Jarnagin, Spencer, 1792-1853
- Publisher:
- Manuscript held by the Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, MS2033 Penelope Johnson Allen, box 1, folder 153, document pa0264.
- Date of Original:
- 1836-12-15
- Subject:
- Claims
Costs (Law)
Cherokee Indians--Claims - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Bartow County, 34.23786, -84.8405
- Medium:
- affidavits
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This is an affidavit given by Spencer Jarnagin, a lawyer who handled several Cherokee cases, dated December 15, 1836. Jarnagin states that he has never received compensation from the Cherokee Nation for legal services he provided in the courts of Tennessee.
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:
- pa0264
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_pa0264
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_pa0264#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_pa0264/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 Cass County
I Spencer Jarnagin of the state of Tennessee do hereby state that I have been attending to [unclear text: causes [cases] ] in law and [unclear text: equity ] in the court of Tennessee and circuit courts of the United States at Knoxville, as said causes [cases] arose, since the year
1821 [added text: for cherokee people ] I [unclear text: performed ] such services as the attorney for the Nation by which, as her public officer I was retained I do further declare said Nation has never paid me any thing [anything] for said services, nor has any one [anyone] done so for her. The sum of two hundred and fifty dollars a year I consider reasonable compensation, tho' it is less than is usually charged for similar services rendered to citizens of the United States.
[Signed] Spencer Jarnagin
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
15th Decr. [December] 1836
[Signed] J.T. [unclear text: Kirkheim ] J.P. [Justice of the Peace]
Page: [2]
Affidavid [Affidavit]
Spencer Jarnagin Esq. [Esquire.]
[unclear text: G. ]