- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter] 1830 Jan. 24, Georgetown, District of Columbia [to] George R. Gilmer, Governor of Georgia / John Forsyth
- Creator:
- Forsyth, John, 1780-1841
- Date of Original:
- 1830-01-24
- Subject:
- Creek Indians--Land tenure
Creek Indians--Treaties
Cherokee Indians--Land tenure
Surveys
Boundaries - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This document is a letter from John Forsyth, U.S. Senator from Georgia, to George R. Gilmer, Governor of Georgia (1829-1831, 1837-1839), dated January 24, 1830. Forsyth remarks on the passage of a recent congressional amendment. He also indicates that the War Department has received the reports of General John Coffee regarding recent surveys of Creek and Cherokee territory. Forsyth states that the new boundary lines reclaim about one third of the territory alleged to belong to Georgia according to an unnamed 1827 treaty with the Creek Indians (probably the Treaty of the Creek Agency, signed November 15, 1827).
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:
- tcc737
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc737
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc737#item
- 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 03, folder 29, document 03.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
Page: [1]
Georgetown, District of Columbia.
January 24, 1830.
His Excellency
George R. Gilmer
Governor of Georgia.
Sir
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the Resolutions of the General Assembly of Georgia on the subject of the amendment to the Constitution of the United States proposed by the States of Louisiana, Missouri &c. [et cetera]
I avail myself of this occasion to inform you that the Report of Genl. [General] Coffee of Alabama on the Creek and Cherokee Line has reached the War Department. Mr. Secretary Eaton gave me a sight of the map transmitted and offered me the perusal of the Report &c. [et cetera] I have not yet had time to avail myself of this offer. According to the map and Mr. Eaton's statement of the substance of Genl. C [General Coffee] 's Report, the true line between the Tribes should begin
Page: [2]
at the Shallow ford on the Chattahoochie and flow circuitously on their ridge a range of hills to Wills' Creek. This line cuts off from the Cherokees about one third of the territory believed by us, according to the evidence before the State Executive, to belong to the State under the Creek Treaty of
1827.
I have the honor to be Your obt Servt. [obedient Servant]
[Signed] John Forsyth
Page: [3]
Hon: John Forsyth
24 Jany [January] 1830
Cherokee Line
24 Jany [January] 1830
