- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter from] Samuel Hawkins [regarding land sales]
- Creator:
- Hawkins, Samuel
- Date of Original:
- 1822/1842
- Subject:
- Indians of North America--Land tenure
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- Samuel Hawkins relays information that an interpreter for unnamed Indian agents had communicated with a party of Indian leaders regarding the negotiation of a treaty at Fort Mitchell and the subsequent refusal to sell more land. Hawkins also writes that in 1822 the agent unjustly deducted a portion of the annuity that was supposed to go to the Nation and sent it to pay to a person named Davis in Savannah, Georgia.
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:
- tcc164
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc164
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc164#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc164/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:
- 1 pages/leaves
- Original Collection:
- Manuscript held by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, Telamon Cuyler, box 78, folder 01, document 01.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
Since the late treaty I have been told by a number of the Chieffs [Chiefs] of this Nation that Hamley the agents interpreter, (during the time the United States Commissioners were [added text: endeavouring to effect ] [deleted text: holding the ] a treaty at Fort Mitchell) Came to the Square, and told the Chieffs [Chiefs] early in the morning, that the agent had sent him to tell them what the Commissioners would have to say to them, and it was the agents [added text: wish ] that they all should be of one mind and answer the Comers. [Commissioners] as they had promised him (the agents by Saying, that -- "We have no more land for sale" -- --
Then omited [omitted] to state to you a fact which heretofore has been [deleted text: [illegible text] ] unusual [added text: in ] [deleted text: with ] our tranactions [transactions] with the United States -- In the Year
1822 Where the agent was about paying the Nation their annuity he charged between 60 & 100 dls. [dollars] (the precise sum not recollected) and deducted it from the annuity of that year [added text: [deleted text: annuity ] ] and stated his reason for doing so was, that he had to pay that much to a person to go to Davis in Savannah [deleted text: for its the ] to bring up the sum of the annuity -- It was submitted to by the Nation but considered as an imposition and unjust. --
[Signed] Saml [Samuel] Hawkins