- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter] 1839 Dec. 14, Washington City, D.C. [to] Andrew Taylor, Cleveland, Ten[nessee] / W[illiam] H[olland] T[homas] of an image
- 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 wt129.
- Date of Original:
- 1839-12-14
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Claims
Cherokee Indians--Government relations
United States. Office of Indian Affairs - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, 35.50069, -80.00032
- Medium:
- business letters
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This is a letter from William Holland Thomas to Andrew Taylor of Cleveland, Tennessee, dated December 14, 1839. Thomas discusses the status of the claims that he has brought before the War Department on behalf of Eastern Cherokees and the decision of the War Department to suspend payments to the Cherokees until the problems among those who have emigrated are settled.
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:
- wt129
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt129
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt129#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt129/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]
Extract
Washington City DC
Dec 14th 1839
Andrew Taylor Cleveland Ten.
The Commissioner has completed his report & submitted it to the secretary of War who now has it under consideration expects to complete his action thereon in a short time until then but little can be known or said respecting it. Immediately thereafter I will inform you the particulars in relation thereto
In consequence of the difficulties existing with the Cherokees West the Department has come to the conclusion to make no payments to them under the treaty until they are settled this has been done at the request of both parties of the Cherokees. The House of Representatives is not yet organised [organized] but is yet squabbling about the rights of the New jersey members to take their seats -- but they organise to night [tonight] .
yours & c. [etcetera]
[Signed] WHT [William Holland Thomas]