United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.1194341833/1834This leather-bound book of Cherokee improvement valuations entitled Valuations under the Treaty of 1828 Emigrations 1833 and 1834 is 412 pages in length. It contains property valuations for over 200 individuals who are listed in an alphabetical index at the end of the book. The evaluations were conducted from the fall of 1833 until the spring of 1834 in accordance with the Treaty of Washington, 1828, concluded between the United States and members of the Cherokee Nation. Under this treaty, the Cherokees were promised seven million acres of land in the Arkansas Territory and the U.S. government was to appoint suitable agents to evaluate all improvements that the Cherokees would relinquish. On September 1, 1831 Benjamin F. Currey was appointed superintendent of removal for the Cherokees, and he appointed agents to appraise the property of those Cherokees enrolled for removal. Most of the valuations consist of an enumeration and brief description of the property, an estimate of its worth, and a total owed to the former occupant.Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries in 2000, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.text/htmlimage/jpegpavengManuscript held by the Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee Knoxville, Penelope Johnson Allen Collection, box 1, folder 239, document pav.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--RelocationCherokee Indians--TreatiesReal property--ValuationCherokee NationUnited States--Politics and government--1825-1829Valuations under the treaty of 1828Text