- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter] 1785 Nov. 26, Savannah [to] John Morell / Claud Thomson
- Creator:
- Thomson, Claud
- Date of Original:
- 1785-11-26
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Treaties
Creek Indians--Land tenure
Boundaries - Location:
- United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This document is a letter, dated November 26, 1785, from a surveyor named Claud Thomson to John Morell, president of the Executive Council of the State of Georgia, requesting remuneration for his delivery of maps to General McIntosh and Colonel Hawkins for the purposes of negotiating a treaty with the Cherokee Indians. The maps detailed the boundaries of Franklin, Wilkes, Washington, and Richmond counties, as well as the borders of South Carolina, Georgia, the Cherokee Nation, and disputed Creek Indian lands.
Digital image of original manuscript, scanned by the University of Georgia Libraries in 2000, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. - Local Identifier:
- tcc089
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc089
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc089#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc089/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Telamon Cuyler, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 3 pages/leaves
- Original Collection:
- Manuscript held by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, Telamon Cuyler, box 77, folder 14, document 01.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
-
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Gentlemen,
Your Petitioner humbly sheweth [shows], That having Furnish'd [Furnished] Genl [General] McIntosh & Coll [Colonel] Hawkins Commissioners appointed to hold a Treaty with the Indians with an embellish'd [embellished] Map of the Counties of Franklin & Wilkes, & part of Washington, & Richmond, Counties with the Oconies, & all their different Water Courses in dispute with the Creek Indians; as also the disputed Boundary betwixt S. Carolina & Georgia; together with the Cherokee Boundary line: Being a large part of a map of the State drawn by your Petitioner for Major Call & by him presented to Your Honors. Which aforesaid map was of considerable service, at the last Treaty held in Savannah, insomuch that after having spent almost two days in vain Attempts to come to an Understanding the moment the map was produced, the Indians then assembled, determined upon the dispute with regard to their own opinion, & what they also
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ventured to affirm, to be that of their Brethren. -- The Commissioners appologized [apologized] to your Petitioner for their inability to make him an immediate pecuniary recompence [recompense], but made him accept an order upon the Governor (as they were pleased to call it) which your Petitioner naturally imagin'd [imagined] would be cheerfully accepted. -- Upon presenting the Certificate to His Honor; he told your Petr [Petitioner] that it lay with the honourable [honorable] the Executive Council to grant what he (his Honor) thought your Petitioner seemingly had the greatest right to.
Your Petitioner therefore relying upon Your Honor's justice hopes You will grant him that demand to which he feels himself so justly entitled,
Is, with great Respect
and Submission
Your Honors'
Servant to command,
[Signed] Claud Thomson Surveyor
Savannah
Novr [November] 26th
-- 1785 --
The Honourable [Honorable] the
Executive Council
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Claud Thomson
Petition
1785
The Honourable [Honorable] John Morell
President of the Executive Council
Savannah.