- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter] 1840 Feb. 8, Washington City, D.C. [to] J[oab] L. Moore, Hamburgh [i.e., Hamburg], S[outh] C[arolina] / 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 wt167.
- Date of Original:
- 1840-02-08
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Claims
Cherokee Indians--Government relations
General stores
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 Joab L. Moore, dated February 8, 1840. Thomas writes in response to the account statement that Moore sent him. Thomas explains that he has been detained in Washington on Cherokee business and that he will make payment on his account as soon as he receives more specific information about the debt.
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:
- wt167
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt167
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt167#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt167/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:
- 2 pages/leaves
- Holding Institution:
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
Washington city DC
Feb 8, 1840
J. L. Moore, Hamburgh, SC
your favor of the
9th ultimo containing a statement of account has been enclosed to me at this place. I have been here since last spring attending to to [to] claims arrising [arising] under the Cherokee treaty of
1835,
In the absence of all my mercantile papers I have no knowledge of the debt or by what store contracted. I am interestd [interested] in there
Page: [2]
one at Murphey cherokee Cty [County] NC one at Scotts creek, Haywood cty [county] one Indian Town Haywood please inform me [added text: at this place ] for which the purchase was made, and from an order was recived [received] and your money shall be immediately remitted from the store indebted
yours & c [et cetera]
[Signed] WHT [William Holland Thomas]