- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter] 1819 Aug. 7, Chickasaw Agency / H. [?] Sherburne of an image
- Creator:
- Sherburne
- Publisher:
- Manuscript held by the Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, Tennessee Historical Society , box 2, folder 24, document tl013.
- Date of Original:
- 1819-08-07
- Subject:
- Chickasaw Indians--Government relations
Chickasaw Indians--Treaties
Boundaries - Location:
- United States, Tennessee, 35.75035, -86.25027
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This document is a letter written by H. (?) Sherburne (possibly Th. Sherborne), an agent for the Chickasaw Nation, to an unknown recipient on August 7, 1819. Sherburne explains that the Chickasaw Nation has voiced objections to the recipient's running of the boundary line between their land and Tennessee. He says they believe that the line was not run in accordance with the specifications listed in the treaty between the Chickasaws and the United States. Sherburne states that the Chickasaws want the boundary line to be run anew by a Major Freeman.
Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries in 2001, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. - Local Identifier:
- ths013
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_ths013
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_ths013#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_ths013/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Tennessee Historical Society , Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 2 pages/leaves
- Holding Institution:
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
[added text (appears to be different ink and hand): Sherburne H. ]
[added text: Copy ]
Chickasaw agency
augt [August] 7 1819
Dear Sir
Your letter of the
8th July was not received until the
20th. I have delayed answering of it till this time that I might give you the result of the council of the Nation, respecting the line you lately ran, between the Ustates and the nation, yesterday the council assembled and gave me in writing the following reasons for their objections to the line as run by you, with a request that I would transmit it to their father the President of the U. States, (viz) Surveying and laying off a town at the chickasaw Bluffs before the line was run and not giveing [giving] due notice agreeable to treaty, starting the line without any commissioners in behalf of the chickasaw Nation, running the line without proper instruments, not starting the line until eigh [eight] or nine OClock in the morning, Not blazing the trees as the treaty calls for, they further request that the President would appoint Majar [Major] Freeman to run another line between them and the state of Tennessee as they want nothing but Justice done them
Thus [deleted text: for ] I have given you a fair and just statement of the case and if it Should prove by another line being run that the presant [present] one is incorect [incorrect] no doub [doubt] but our [added text: the ] nation will receive from our government ample justice
I am respectfully Sir Your Obedt [Obedient] servant Signed
[Signed] [unclear text: H. ] Sherburne agent for the chickasaw nation of Indians