- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter] 1840 Jan. 29, 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 wt163.
- Date of Original:
- 1840-01-29
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Claims
Cherokee Indians--Government relations
Cherokee Indians--Treaties
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 T. Hartley Crawford, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, dated January 29, 1840. Thomas encloses a power of attorney for Nicholas Woodfin (no longer attached) and requests payment of money owed him.
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:
- wt163
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt163
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt163#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt163/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
January 29, 1840
Hon [Honorable] T. Hartley Crawford
Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Sir
I herewith enclose you the power of atto [attorney] of Nicholas Woodfin a lawyer who resides in Asheville NC. In his name would respectfully ask payment of the sum of one hundred dollars due him from Ann Hyatt a cherokee -- wife of Nathan B. Hyatt deceased. and for which sum -- Judgment [Judgement] was awarded him by the Board of Commissioners as see Judgment [Judgement] Book no [number] 4127.
It is presumed that the money due her from the United States on the Compromise made with Dillard Love can be made [added text: applicable ] to the purpose of satisfying the above claim under the 9th article of the treaty of
1835,
yours & c [et cetera] .
[Signed] W.H.T. [William Holland Thomas]