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- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Letter] 1840 Feb. 22, Washington City, [D.C. to] T. Hartley Crawford, Com[missioner] 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 wt170.
- Date of Original:
- 1840-02-22
- 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 to T. Hartley Crawford, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, from William Holland Thomas, dated February 22, 1839. Thomas submits a claim on behalf of Nicholas Peck for a sum owed him under the treaty of 1835.
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:
- wt170
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt170
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt170#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt170/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
Feb 22 1840
Hon [Honorable] T. Hartley Crawford
Com [Commissioner] of Indian Affairs
sir --
As the atto [attorney] in fact of Nicholas S. Peck allow me herewith to submit his claim on the heirs of David McNair for the sum of $887.50 for which Judgment [Judgement] was awarded him by the board of Cherokee commissioners acting under the 17th and agreeable to the 9th article of the treaty of
1835 & c [et cetera] made with the Cherokees, and in his name permit me to ask the payment thereof
very respectfully yours obt servt [obedient servant]
[Signed] WHT [William Holland Thomas]