- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter] 1839 July 25, Washington City, [D.C. to] T. Hartley Crawford, Com[missioner] I[ndian] A[ffairs] / W[illiam] H[olland] T[homas]
- Creator:
- Thomas, William Holland, 1805-1893
- Publisher:
- Manuscript held by the Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, MS2058 William Holland Thomas, box 1, folder 1, document wt037.
- Date of Original:
- 1839-07-25
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Land tenure
Cherokee Indians--Claims
Cherokee Indians--Relocation
United States. Office of Indian Affairs - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, McDowell County, Marion, 35.68401, -82.00927
- Medium:
- business letters
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This letter, dated July 25, 1839, is from William Holland Thomas to T. Hartley Crawford, Commissioner of Indian Affairs. The letter pertains to the sale of Cherokee lands and subsequent claims to recover the proceeds from these sales.
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:
- wt037
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt037
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt037#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt037/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], MS2058 William Holland Thomas, Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 page/leaf
- Holding Institution:
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
Washington City
July 25, 1839
Hon [Honorable] T Hartley Crawford
Com. I A [Commissioner Indian Affairs]
Sir,
I would respectfully call your attention to the subject of the fund arrising [arising] from the sale of Cherokee property. The Agents appointed to collect and sell Indian property made a report thereof to the Commissioners, and they signed receipts to the agency for the amount of money corresponding with those reports by [but] refused to [unclear text: pay ] 203.209.236. & 242 you will [unclear text: perceive ] all the property reported to have been sold by the Agents in Macon NC [North Carolina] has been accounted for to the Commissioners and they have receipts for a sufficient amount of money to satisfy all the claims of Cherokees whose property has been sold This money was by them turned over to Mr Cruttenden US [unclear text: disbg ] Agt [Agent] and the amount turned over to him they reported to the office of IA [Indian Affairs] a sum corresponding with their report has been paid over by said [unclear text: disbg ] Agt [Agent] to [deleted text: Mr ] [added text: David ] Kurtz [unclear text: disbg ] Agt [Agent] for the use of the claimants to suppose that the above sum is not sufficient to satisfy all the claims is to presume that the return of the Commissioner is in-correct as there can be no deficiency if their report be correct and it would seem at least good authority for the payment of the small amount asked for.
yours& c [et cetera]
[Signed] WHT [William Holland Thomas]
at [illegible text] Cherokees East