- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- Article of agreement between Betsey Woodward and Nicholas S. Peck, 1838 Dec. 21 of an image
- Publisher:
- Manuscript held by the Special Collections Library, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, MS2058 William Holland Thomas, box 1, folder 2, document wt179.
- Date of Original:
- 1838-12-21
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Claims
Cherokee Indians--Treaties - Location:
- United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434
- Medium:
- contracts
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This is a legal agreement between Betsey Woodward and Nicholas S. Peck. Woodward hires Peck to settle a Cherokee reservation claim and agrees to pay Peck a percentage for his services.
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:
- wt179
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt179
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt179#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_wt179/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:
- 3 pages/leaves
- Holding Institution:
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
Article of agreement this
21 day of December 1838 between Betsey Woodward of the County of Bradley and state of Tennessee Attorney in fact for William Elder of the Cherokee nation west of the Mississippi River of the one part and Nicholas S. Peck of the County of Monroe and state aforesaid of the other part
Witnesseth that the said Nicholas S Peck on his part doth agree to prosecute and do all things necessary and proper to be done in establishing a reservation taken by Moses Elder in his own right under the treaty of
1817 which claim having been prepared by said Peck and the papers filed with the united states Commissioners for adjudication in Conformity with the late treaty between the united States & and cherokee Indians as attorney in fact of said Betsey woodward [unclear text: Atto [Attorney] ] & c [et cetera] On her part doth agree to pay to said Peck [unclear text: Atto [Attorney] ] & c [et cetera] for his trouble and expense ten percent Out of the money allowed for said claim and if said reservation claim should be sent to the City of Washington for a final decision Or settlement the said Betsey doth agree to pay said Peck twelve and a half percent
Page: [2]
Out of said money -- And do authorise [authorize] and empower said Peck to recive [receive] and reciept [receipt] for said money to the proper officer of the government for the same whenever said claim shall be determined
In Witness where of we have here with [herewith] set Our hands and seals the date first above written
[ Note: Handwritten seals appear next to the signatures below. ]
signed
[Signed] Betsey Woodward her X mark
[Signed] Nicholas S. Peck
Signed Sealed and delivered in my presance [presence]
[Signed] Th [Thomas] W Wilson [illegible text]
Page: [3]
Copy of the agreement with N [Nicholas] S. Peck & Betsey Woodward