- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- Letter, 1822 Feb. 11, Habersham County, [Georgia] to John Clark, Governor of Georgia, Milledgeville, [Georgia] / James Blair
- Creator:
- Blair, James
- Date of Original:
- 1822-02-11
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Treaties
Cherokee Indians--Land tenure - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- claims
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This letter, dated February 11, 1822, from James Blair to John Clark (Governor of Georgia, 1819-1823) is in response to the governor's request that Blair provide for him a list of the individuals (Cherokees and their family members) who claimed land reserves in the counties of Hall, Habersham, and Rabun under the Treaties of 1817 and 1819. Blair offers the governor a detailed list of some of the claimants, as well as some information on what those claimants might take from the state government in payment for their lands.
Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2001, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. - Local Identifier:
- tcc483
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc483
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc483#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc483/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:
- 4 pages/leaves
- Original Collection:
- Manuscript held by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, Telamon Cuyler, box 48, folder 07, document 06.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
-
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Letter
James Blair dated
11 Feb 1822
Ordered to be filed
2. March 1822.
Indian Reservations
Feb. 11, 1822
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His Excellency John Clark Governor &c [et cetera] Milledgeville
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Habersham County
11th. February 1822.
To His Excellency John Clark Governor of Georgia
Sir,
Pursuant to your request I have proceeded to ascertain the persons claiming reserves under the Treaties with the Cherokee Indians of
1817 and
1819 and to ascertain what would be the least said persons would take from the General Government for said lands provided they were entitled under said Treaties and the Government disposed to purchase; I find persons claiming as heads of Indian families under the 8th. Article of the Treaty of
1817 twenty one reserves of six hundred and forty acres each -- a large proportion of these claimants ask $2 per acre for their claims and some few ask more in consequence of their improvements.
The following is a discription [description] of Claimants, Catharine Ward (a woman) about one eighth Indian blood, who has four sons by a white man, and one daughter married to a white man a Citizen of Georgia, each of whom claim a reserve.
Walter and Edward Adair, whose mother had a little Indian blood, were raised in south Carolina, the former of whom had a reserve in that State which he has sold, and is now Post Master at Habersham Court House, has been a Commissioned Officer and enjoyed all the priviledges [privileges] of other Citizens of the State -- all the above named four Sons of Catherine Ward and the Adairs are lawfully
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married to white women and have families.
The balance claiming are white men that have married Indian women, and claim in right of their wives.
There appear to be five persons claiming under the Treaty of
1819 -- titles in fee simple, whose names are inscribed on a certified list annexed to said treaty, three of whom I have not seen, one having removed and left his land rented out, and one other who is named in said Treaty is not on the land nor has he resided on it since the treaty, but still claims it. --
I have the honor to be &c [et cetera]
[Signed] James Blair
P.S. It is proper that I should inform you that the reserves aforementioned are laid out in the Counties of Hall, Habersham, and Rabun in this State, by a surveyor under the direction of the United States Commissioner Wilson Lumpkin Esquire on Certificates being produced from the Agent of Indian Affairs Colo. [Colonel] Meigs in favor of said Claimants.
[Signed] James Blair