- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- Articles of agreement, 1794 Oct. 12, Knoxville, [Tennessee] / [signed by] David Moore and William Blount, Governor of Tennessee of an image
- Creator:
- Moore, David
- Contributor to Resource:
- Blount, William, 1749-1800
- Publisher:
- Manuscript held by the Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, William Blount Papers , box 1, folder 5, document tl005.
- Date of Original:
- 1794-10-12
- Subject:
- Chickasaw Indians--Government relations
Choctaw Indians--Government relations
Creek Indians--Claims against
Cherokee Indians--Claims against - Location:
- United States, Tennessee, 35.75035, -86.25027
- Medium:
- legal documents
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This document is an agreement between Tennessee Governor William Blount and David Moore of Knoxville, dated October 12, 1794. Moore agrees to take charge of a boat carrying goods belonging to the Chickasaws and Choctaws and administer its journey down the Tennessee River to the mouth of Bear Creek, as so directed by Chickasaw Chief Opoia Mingo (possibly Piomingo). Moore is also responsible for protecting the boat and its passengers against attacks by the Creeks and Cherokees. Furthermore, the article outlines how Moore and his crew will be compensated.
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:
- wbp005
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wbp005
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wbp005#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wbp005/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], William Blount Papers , Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 4 pages/leaves
- Holding Institution:
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
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Articles of agreement made and entered into between William Blount Governor in and over the territory of the United States of America south of the river Ohio, and superintendent of indian affairs for the southern district on the part of the United States on the one part and David Moore of Knoxville on the other part, respecting the working a large flat bottomed boat from this place down the tennessee with a quantity of goods belonging to the Chickasaw and Chactaw nations of indians being the same goods that were given by the United States to the said nations and in
July last delivered at philadelphia to Opoia Mingo and others of his nation than at Philadelphia Witness, that the said David Moore engages to hold himself in readiness to take charge of the said boat now laying in the holston river near the camp of the said Opoia Mingo about four hundred yards below this place on saturday the
18th instant, by which time it is supposed the whole of the said goods will have arrived at that place and be put on board the said boat in the character of commander thereof and to provide six good oarsmen by the aforesaid day to work the said boat down the tennessee to the mouth of Bear Creek, or to such other place above as Opoia Mingo shall
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direct the said goods to be landed, and he the said David Moore further engages and agrees with the said William Blount that in the character of commander of the said flat bottomed boat he will use the utmost of his skill and abilities in commanding conducting and defending her with her lading down the tennessee against all attacks that may be made upon the said boat by any hostile party or parties of Creeks or Cherokees and that he will take special care of Opoia Mingo and his party of Chickasaws who are to pass down the tennessee in the said boat with the goods as before described belonging to the Chickasaws and Chactaws - and the said William Blount engages on the part of the United States that the said David Moore [unclear text: shall ] be paid for his own skill trouble and service in commanding and conducting the said boat to the mouth of Bear Creek or to such other place above as Opoia Mingo shall order their goods to be landed two hundred dollars and that each of the six oarsmen shall be paid one dollar per day for their services counting from the time they appear at the boat ready to go on board provided such appearance be not before the
18th instant to the day they return to this place provided more than twenty [added text: four ] days shall not be allowed to return to this place from the place where the goods shall be landed. -- and it is further agreed that provisions shall be put on board the said boat at this place at the cost of
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the United States in such quantity as shall be judged sufficient for the said David Moore and the six oarsmen for the voyage down the river and for their support on their return, but in case of deficiency no allowance shall be claimed on their return for such deficiency. --
Knoxville
October 12th 1794
[Signed] Wm [William] Blount
[Signed] David Moore
Witness
[Signed] James King
[Signed] Willie Blount
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Articles of agreement
Governor Blount with David Moore
October 12th 94