- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter] 1839 Aug. 5, Washington City, [D.C. to] T. Hartley Crawford, Commissioner [of] 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 , box 1, folder 1, document wt046.
- Date of Original:
- 1839-08-05
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Treaties
Cherokee Indians--Land tenure
Cherokee Indians--Government relations
United States. Office of Indian Affairs - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, 35.50069, -80.00032
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This is a letter, dated August 5, 1839, from William Holland Thomas to T. Hartley Crawford, Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Thomas, as an attorney for the Eastern Cherokees, outlines his argument against the Board of Commissioners' handling of Cherokee land sales. He contends that the actions of the commissioners were not in accord with the terms of the treaty of 1835 and that the claims of Cherokees against the U.S. are justified.
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:
- wt046
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt046
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt046#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt046/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], MS2058 , 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
August 5, 1839
Hon [Honorable] T. Hartley Crawford
Commissioner IA [Indian Affairs]
sir.
I beg leave to submit for your consideration the following remarks on the accompanying claims of Cherokees for property sold.
1 It [unclear text: seemed ] by the treaty of
1835 that the sale of Cherokee property was not authorized nor does it appear to have been within the authority or duty of the Board of Commissioners who acted under [text missing] article of that treaty and it further appears from the returns of those sales that the Board of Commissioners never acted on or adjudicated those claims and the only thing they did in relation to it was to receive and remit to this office the money due the claimants for their property with a list of their names and amounts due to each as reported by the agents. I am therefore at a loss to perceive how those claims for property sold can be effected by the decisions of the Department are [or] the decisions made by they Board of Commissioners on claims provided for under the treaty . The above as stated not having been provided for or adjudicated by them but if in the above in your opinion I have been mistaken the peculiar situation of the claimants is my apology
very respectfully yours & c [et cetera]
[Signed] WHT [William Holland Thomas] atto [attorney] for the Cherokees East