- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- Letter, 1825 Apr. 10, Creek Nation to [George M.] Troup, Governor [of Georgia], Mill[ed]ge[ville], Georgia / Benjamin Hawkins
- Creator:
- Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816
- Date of Original:
- 1825-04-10
- Subject:
- Creek Indians--Government relations
Creek Indians--Politics and government--1775-1865
Creek Indians--Treaties
Creek Indians--Land tenure
Indian agents
Georgia--Politics and government
McIntosh, William, approximately 1775-1825 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- official reports
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This is a letter dated April 10, 1825 from Benjamin Hawkins, possibly of Creek descent (NOT the late U.S. Agent to the Creeks), to George M. Troup, Governor of Georgia (1823-1827), stating that since the Treaty of Indian Springs (signed February 12, 1825), he has been at the Creek Agency and has been in conversation with Creek Agent John Crowell. He reports that Crowell told him he should tell the chiefs of the Upper Creeks not to cooperate with Creek leader William McIntosh. Hawkins also states that Crowell told him to say everything possible against McIntosh. Henry Crowell told Hawkins that U. S. commissioners tried to bribe him into convincing the Creeks to sell their land. Agent John Crowell then told Hawkins that he and his brother, Samuel Hawkins, should go to collect the Indians while McIntosh is in Washington and destroy his property because of his inclination to sell the Creek land.
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:
- tcc895
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc895
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc895#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_tcc895/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 76, folder 25, document 27.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
Creek Nation
10th. April 1825.
To Governor Troup/
Sir/
I feel it my duty to State to you that, being at the Creek Agency Since the late Treaty at the Indian Springs, I was in Conversation with the agent John Crowel, when he told me when I went home to tell the chieffs [chiefs] of the upper Towns that if thy listined [they listened] to the talks of McIntosh that he would sell them and their land in less than a year, and told me I must say every thing I Could against Genl. [General] McIntosh -- Mr. Henry Crowel in the presense [presence] -- and hearing of the agent told me, that the United States Commissioners offered him just before the late treaty Ten thousand dollars and five mile Square of Land if he would use his exertions to Cause the Nation to Sell their land; but he said, that he answered the Commissioners by Saying he would have nothing to do with it -- He told me that if he had done as the Commissioners would not be doing Justice to the Indians, but if he had done so it would have been to his interest as he would have a great deal of money -- -- The agent said, that me, and my
Page: [2]
Brother Saml. [Samuel] Hawkins, ought to Collect the Indians, when Genl. [General] McIntosh was gone to Washington, and Burn down his Houses and distroy [destroy] his property, because of his disposition to Sell the land. --
I am your Obt [Obedient] Servant
[Signed] Benjamin Hawkins
Letter
Benj [Benjamin] Hawkins
10 April 1825.
Murder of McIntosh
Communicated to the Legislature the
23 May 1825
Page: [3]
To Governor Troup Millge [Milledge] Georgia