- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter] 1840 Jan. 21, Washington City, D.C. [to] T. Hartley Crawford, Commissioner of Indian Affairs / 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 wt159.
- Date of Original:
- 1840-01-21
- 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 to T. Hartley Crawford, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, from William Holland Thomas, dated January 21, 1840. Thomas writes on behalf of various Cherokee claimants who are entitled to monies for property improvements under the treaty of 1835 and have never received the payments due them. Thomas encloses their powers of attorney (no longer attached).
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:
- wt159
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt159
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt159#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt159/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
Jan 21, 1840
Hon [Honorable] T. Hartley Crawford
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Sir
The powers of attorney of the following named Cherokees remaining East of the Mississippi under the provisions of the 12th article of the treaty of
1835 are here with [herewith] enclosed. The balances due them for improvements under the 9th article with references to the books and pages where the same appear are also annexed. In their names as their attorney in fact allow me respectfully to ask payment. By the stipulations of the treaty referred to all their due need to have been paid them as soon as an appropriation was made therefore. Congress made the appropriation
July 2, 1836, They are in need of money to pay for lands purchased
very respectfully yours & c [et cetera]
[Signed] WHT [William Holland Thomas]
Exhibited on a list what was due for improvements $5376.48
enclosed the following powers of attorney. no 1 -- no 3. no 4 no 5. no 6 no 15 no 17 no 18 no 20 no 23 no 24 no 25 no 27 no 32. filed with the commissioner of Indian Affairs.