- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter] 1839 Dec. 23, Washington City, D.C. [to] T. Hartley Crawford, Commissioner of I[ndian] A[ffairs] / W[illia]m H. Thomas 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 wt140.
- Date of Original:
- 1839-12-23
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Claims
Cherokee Indians--Government relations
Cherokee Indians--Relocation
United States. Office of Indian Affairs - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, 35.50069, -80.00032
- Medium:
- business letters
claims - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This is a letter, dated December 23, 1839, from William Holland Thomas to T. Hartley Crawford, Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Thomas, as legal representative for John Welch, submits a request for the Commissioner's consideration. Welch claims that he lost 2990.00 dollars worth of property as a result of the removal of the Cherokees to the West in 1838.
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:
- wt140
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt140
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt140#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt140/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 DC
December 23, 1839
Hon [Honorable] T. Hartley Crawford Commissioner of IA [Indian Affairs]
Sir,
As the attorney in fact of Jno [John] Welch a Cherokee I beg leave herewith to submit for your consideration his claim for property. which the removal of the Cherokees occasioned him to loose [lose] in
1838 amounting to $2990.00 with the evidence in support of the same.
yours & c [et cetera]
[Signed] Wm. [William] H. Thomas